Fernando Higueras belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Fernando Higueras as Spanish architect (1930-2008).
Fernando Higueras was born at Madrid in 1930. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Technical University of Madrid.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Ciudad Real town hall, Church of St. Mary of Cana and Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute. 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.
Fernando Higueras died in 2008, aged 78. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Ciudad Real town hall
- Notable work: Church of St. Mary of Cana
- Notable work: Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute
- Notable work: Edificio Serrano 69
- Trained at Technical University of Madrid
