Secundino Zuazo belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Secundino Zuazo as Spanish architect.
Secundino Zuazo was born at Bilbao in 1887. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Universidad Central.
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.
Among his best-known works are Antigua sede social y viviendas para Le Phenix, Madrid, Palacio de la Música and Casa de las Flores. 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.
Secundino Zuazo died in 1970, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Antigua sede social y viviendas para Le Phenix, Madrid
- Notable work: Palacio de la Música
- Notable work: Casa de las Flores
- Notable work: Nuevos Ministerios
- Trained at Universidad Central
