Enrique Nieto belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Enrique Nieto as Spanish architect.
Enrique Nieto was born at Barcelona in 1880. 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.
Among his best-known works are Casa de Enrique Nieto, Antigua Redacción de El Telegrama del Rif, Melilla and Antiguo Economato Militar. 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 Nieto died in 1954, 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: Casa de Enrique Nieto
- Notable work: Antigua Redacción de El Telegrama del Rif, Melilla
- Notable work: Antiguo Economato Militar
- Notable work: Casa de Lázaro Torres
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