Cèsar Martinell i Brunet

Cèsar Martinell i Brunet ( born December 24, 1888 in Valls, † November 19, 1973 in Barcelona) was a Catalan architect and important representative of Modernism.

Biography

Cèsar Martinell ended in 1916 to study architecture in Barcelona. He was a student of Antoni Gaudí. In 1923 he was dean of the School of Architecture and in 1929 professor at the Art Academy in Barcelona. He wrote numerous works, especially the architecture and sculpture of the Baroque to the theory and work of Gaudí as well as on agricultural architecture in Catalonia, a region in which he was the undisputed expert.

Works

Cèsar Martinell deserves with his teacher Antoni Gaudí, to be placed in a row with Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Maria Jujol. Its merit is to have brought the Catalan industrial architecture to an extremely high artistic standard. In fact, he has created in his life more than 40 wine cellar or agricultural buildings and was responsible for the creation of the term " wine cathedrals " ( " Catedral del Vi " ) responsible. The brick halls of the wineries are similar naves are covered over by thin layers of bricks.

The most important wineries of Cèsar Martinell can be found in

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