In the history of building, José Luis de Oriol y Urigüen is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists José Luis de Oriol y Urigüen as Spanish businessman, architect and politician (1877-1972).
José Luis de Oriol y Urigüen was born at Bilbao in 1877. 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 politician, architect and businessperson.
Among his best-known works are Palacio Oriol and Palacio San Joseren. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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 Luis de Oriol y Urigüen died in 1972, aged 95. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Palacio Oriol
- Notable work: Palacio San Joseren
