Adolfo Morales de los Ríos belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Adolfo Morales de los Ríos as Spanish architect (1868–1928).
Adolfo Morales de los Ríos was born at Seville in 1868. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect.
His best-known building is Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Spain shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Adolfo Morales de los Ríos died in 1928, aged 60. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
- Trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris
