Rafael Masó i Valentí belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Rafael Masó i Valentí as Catalan architect (1880–1935).
Rafael Masó i Valentí was born at Girona in 1880. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at University of Barcelona.
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, poet and writer.
His work is associated with art nouveau and noucentisme.
His best-known building is Farinera Teixidor. 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.
Rafael Masó i Valentí died in 1935, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Farinera Teixidor
- Movement: Art Nouveau and Noucentisme
- Trained at University of Barcelona
