Ricardo Velázquez Bosco practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Ricardo Velázquez Bosco as Spanish architect (1843–1923).
Ricardo Velázquez Bosco was born at Burgos in 1843. 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 anthropologist, architect and archaeologist.
Among his best-known works are Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Minas, Palacio de Velázquez and Casón del Buen Retiro. 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.
Ricardo Velázquez Bosco died in 1923, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Minas
- Notable work: Palacio de Velázquez
- Notable work: Casón del Buen Retiro
- Notable work: Headquarters of the Ministry of Education of Spain
