In the history of building, José María Manuel Cortina Pérez is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists José María Manuel Cortina Pérez as Spanish architect (1868–1950).
José María Manuel Cortina Pérez was born at Valencia in 1868. 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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
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 María Manuel Cortina Pérez died in 1950, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
