ANUNCIOS DE FUTURO. LA ARQUITECTURA DIBUJADA EN LA PUBLICIDAD DE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE DURANTE LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL.

ADVERTISING THE FUTURE: DRAWN ARCHITECTURE IN ADS PUBLISHED IN ARTS & ARCHITECTURE DURING WORLD WAR II.

ADVERTISING; ARCHITECTURAL drawing; WORLD War II; 20TH century arts & architecture; FUTURE, The; ARCHITECTS; ARCHITECTURE; POSTWAR reconstruction

The military production policies imposed in the United States during World War II paralyzed the real estate sector and pushed many architects, designers, and drafters to look for work in advertising agencies. Although sheer economic survival was at first the prime reason for their taking on advertising assignments, these gave them an unimaginable degree of creative freedom in the real world. This article analyzes how the phenomenon unfolded in Arts & Architecture, presenting a selection of advertisements published in wartime issues of the magazine in which architectural drawings played a central role. With the sole main purpose of achieving attractive and thought-provoking visual results, for a short period of time the journal's advertising pages served as a research laboratory in which architects could unleash their imagination and envision the constructions of the future that they would build when the war was over. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Las políticas de producción militar impuestas en Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial paralizaron la actividad del sector inmobiliario y empujaron a muchos arquitectos, diseñadores y delineantes a buscar trabajo en agencias de publicidad. Aunque el interés inicial de estos encargos publicitarios se debía fundamentalmente a cuestiones de estricta supervivencia económica, también permitían desarrollar una libertad creativa inconcebible en el mundo real. Este artículo analiza este fenómeno en la revista Arts & Architecture, y presenta una selección de anuncios publicados durante la guerra en los que el dibujo de arquitectura tiene un papel protagonista. Con el único compromiso fundamental de lograr un resultado visual atractivo y sugerente, durante un breve periodo de tiempo la publicidad de la revista funcionó como un laboratorio de investigación en el que los arquitectos podían dar rienda suelta a su imaginación y ensayar los edificios del futuro que construirían cuando la guerra terminara. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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