Enrique María Repullés belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Enrique María Repullés as Spanish architect (1845–1922).
Enrique María Repullés was born at Madrid in 1845. 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.
Among his best-known works are church of Our Lady of the Angels, church of Santa Cristina and Church of San Matías, Madrid. 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.
Enrique María Repullés died in 1922, aged 77. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: church of Our Lady of the Angels
- Notable work: church of Santa Cristina
- Notable work: Church of San Matías, Madrid
- Notable work: Valladolid Town Hall
