GATEPAC

thumb|Copy of GATEPAC's journal thumb|w:es:Club Náutico de San Sebastián|Club Náutico de San Sebastián (1929) designed by [[José Manuel Aizpúrua and Joaquín Labayen]] GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) was a group of young architects who assembled during the Second Spanish Republic. Its most important members were: Josep Lluís Sert, Antoni Bonet Castellana, Josep Torres Clavé, José Manuel Aizpurúa, Fernando García Mercadal and Sixte Illescas. The group was formed in 1930 as a Spanish branch of C.I.A.M. The Eastern (Catalan) and founding section of the group, called GATCPAC (Grup d'Arquitectes i Tècnics Catalans per al Progrés de l'Arquitectura Contemporània) was much more successful than the Central or Northern sections, and carried out government contracts during the Second Republic.

GATEPAC was the leading group of architects that introduced modernist architecture and its ideas to Spain during the 1930s. The values they sought to introduce were primarily design elements of buildings that followed function over form and the well-being of the people that used the building. To accomplish these goals, they utilized simple and minimalistic building forms, modern materials, and environmental / natural strategies such as sunlight, ventilation, and shading strategies. They also included and emphasized green spaces in many of their projects for quality of life. Many of the projects they worked on were public buildings and affordable housing projects. Their intentions behind these design ideas were to improve everyday life for the people through architecture and to create better spaces that served the people and the community.