In the history of building, Antoni Rovira i Trias is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Antoni Rovira i Trias as Spanish architect (1816–1889).
Antoni Rovira i Trias was born at Barcelona in 1816. His recorded nationality is Spain.
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 work is associated with catalan modernism.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Antoni Rovira i Trias died in 1889, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: Catalan modernism
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