Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano as architect (1828–1901).
Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano was born at Murcia in 1827. 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 and librarian.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
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.
Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano died in 1901, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
