José López Sallaberry belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists José López Sallaberry as Spanish architect (1858-1927).
José López Sallaberry was born at Madrid in 1858. 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 ABC Serrano, Teatro Fontalba and Teatro El Dorado. 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.
José López Sallaberry died in 1927, aged 69. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: ABC Serrano
- Notable work: Teatro Fontalba
- Notable work: Teatro El Dorado
- Notable work: Palacete de Eduardo Adcoch
