The history of the construction of the Faculty of Sciences on the Diagonal Campus, told through images and archives

The exhibition includes a selection of images and archival documents illustrating the different phases of construction and extension of this building, which was inaugurated on 1 November 1969. The architectural project, the work of the brothers Manuel and Joaquim Romero Aguirre, was a key element in the UB’s expansion plan begun in the mid-20th century and expanded the institution beyond the Plaça de la Universitat. 

Its territorial growth began with the inauguration of the Pedralbes Campus and the Faculty of Pharmacy in the 1950s, and culminated with the creation of new centres along the Diagonal Campus.  

The exhibition shows how this expansion movement was accompanied by a profound institutional transformation. In 1974, the Faculty of Science was divided into five independent faculties — Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology and Geology — in a pioneering initiative in Spain that strengthened the specialization and autonomy of each scientific branch. The faculties of Physics and Chemistry were the first to be fully installed in the new building, and in 1979 the first graduating classes took their degrees.