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Manuel Martín Madrid
Manuel Martin Madrid is a Spanish architect. He was born in Madrid in 1938. He graduated as an Architect from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1965 and obtained his PhD in Architecture in 1969. That same year he started the Office of Urbanistic Information (OIC) at the COAC in Girona. Martin's first major commission was the "Casa Francesc Colomer" in 1968, in Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in 2020. Girona is the capital ..., and since then he has carved out a career as an architect influenced by both central European abstract modernism and the Barcelona School. As well as houses, he has designed parks, exhibitions and large-scale developments. Bibliography *''Manuel Martin Madrid'', by Bet Capdeferro. Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (2006) (In English, Span ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
