Bernardo Giner de los Ríos is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Bernardo Giner de los Ríos as Spanish architect and politician (1888-1970).
Bernardo Giner de los Ríos was born at Madrid in 1888. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, writer and politician.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Bernardo Giner de los Ríos died in 1970, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
