Marcel·lià Coquillat i Llofriu belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Marcel·lià Coquillat i Llofriu as Spanish architect.
Marcel·lià Coquillat i Llofriu was born at Elche in 1865. 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.
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.
Marcel·lià Coquillat i Llofriu died in 1924, aged 59. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
