In the history of building, Juan Martín Cermeño is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Juan Martín Cermeño as Spanish architect, military engineer, and lieutenant general.
Juan Martín Cermeño was born at Ciudad Rodrigo in 1700. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, military personnel and military engineer.
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.
Juan Martín Cermeño died in 1773, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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