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
The Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid ( es, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, ETSAM) is the school of architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain. It trains future architects and grants the ...
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, 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, Spanish and Catalán)
References
list of Catalan architects
1938 births
Living people
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