Manuel Martin Madrid is a Spanish architect. He was born in
Madrid
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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
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 ...
.
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, Spanish and Catalán)
References
list of Catalan architects
1938 births
Living people
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