Martín Domínguez Esteban practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Martín Domínguez Esteban as Spanish architect.
Martín Domínguez Esteban was born at San Sebastián in 1897. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Technical University of Madrid.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
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.
Martín Domínguez Esteban died in 1970, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Technical University of Madrid
