Julio Maragall (born 1936) is a Spanish born

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and architect.

Biography

He was born in

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, son of the sculptor

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. When he was three years old, his family went into exile in

, where his mother came from. He studied architecture and sculpture at

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in the

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, from which he graduated in 1966. He began his career in

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at Mario Romañac and Donald Belchers office. He later returned to

where he started working with Julio Volante. He graduated from the Simón Bolívar University in Miranda State, where he studied architectural design. In 1972 he founded his company Maragall&Co, and the same year he started teaching as a professor of architectural design on Simón Bolívar University. During these years he has developed a career as a sculptor and he has numerous solo exhibitions.

Works

*ABA Tower in the Las Mercedes urbanization (1975), *Development and remodeling of the Hotel Margarita Hilton Internacional (1993). *Villa Bermeja (Chulavista), (1986) *Promenade of La Barceloneta, Spain (1996) *Paseo Jose Maria Vargas 2

References

*''This article was initially translated from the Spanish Wikipedia.'' Spanish sculptors Spanish male sculptors Venezuelan sculptors 1954 births Living people {{Spain-sculptor-stub