Juan Rubió practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Juan Rubió as Spanish architect (1870-1952).
Juan Rubió was born at Reus in 1871. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona.
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.
His work is associated with catalan modernism.
His best-known building is Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family. 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.
Juan Rubió died in 1952, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
- Movement: Catalan modernism
- Trained at Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
