Fernando Arbós y Tremanti is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Fernando Arbós y Tremanti as Spanish architect (1844-1916).
Fernando Arbós y Tremanti was born at Rome in 1844. 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.
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.
Fernando Arbós y Tremanti died in 1916, aged 72. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
