Alfredo Jones Brown belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Alfredo Jones Brown as Uruguayan architect and painter (1876-1950).
Alfredo Jones Brown was born at Montevideo in 1876. His recorded nationality is Uruguay. He trained at Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo.
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 and painter.
Among his best-known works are Escuela Alemania building and IAVA Building. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Uruguay shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Alfredo Jones Brown died in 1950, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Escuela Alemania building
- Notable work: IAVA Building
- Trained at Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo
