Justo Antonio de Olaguibel belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Justo Antonio de Olaguibel as Spanish architect (1752-1818).
Justo Antonio de Olaguibel was born at Vitoria-Gasteiz in 1752. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect and urban planner.
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.
Justo Antonio de Olaguibel died in 1818, aged 66. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
