Antonio Palacios

Not to be confused with Alberto Palacio.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Palacios and the second or maternal family name is Ramilo.
Antonio Palacios Ramilo
Born(1874-01-08)8 January 1874
O Porriño, Spain
Died27 October 1945(1945-10-27) (aged 73)
El Plantío, Spain
NationalitySpanish

Antonio Palacios Ramilo (8 January 1874 – 27 October 1945) was a Spanish architect. Distinguished by the monumental eclecticism he left as imprint in many of his projects,[1] he helped define the architectural identity of Madrid in the first half of the 20th century.[2]

Biography

Born on 8 January 1874 in O Porriño, province of Pontevedra.[3] Palacios moved to Madrid to start his studies as Engineer; he switched to Architecture, and obtained a degree in 1903.[4]

A prolific architect, he modernized the image of Madrid with some of the most emblematic buildings of the Spanish capital.[2] He received influence from Secessionist modernismo, but according to Óscar da Rocha Aranda, only as feature within a wider mashup of many eclectic styles, such as Neoplateresque, Neoclassicism and modern US commercial arquitecture.[1]

Palacios, who also designed the interior of some of the original Metro de Madrid stations, was the creator of the iconic rhomboidal logo of the rapid transit.[5]

He became a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1926.[4]

He died on 27 October 1945 in El Plantío, Madrid.[4]

Selected works

Madrid
Galicia
  • Teatro Rosalía de Castro, in Vigo (1906)[4]
  • Virxe da Roca, in Baiona, Pontevedra (1912)[4]
  • Casa do concello do Porriño, in O Porriño (1919)[4]
  • Banco de Vigo, in Vigo (1941)[4]
  • Templo votivo do Mar, in Panxón, Nigrán (1932)[4]
  • Mosteiro da Visitación, in Vigo (1942)[4]
  • Igrexa da Vera Cruz, in O Carballiño (1943)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Rocha Aranda, Óscar da (2009). El modernismo en la arquitectura madrileña: génesis y desarrollo de una opción ecléctica. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-84-00-08889-7.
  2. ^ a b Albor, Laura (27 October 2016). "Así es el Madrid de Antonio Palacios, el arquitecto que hizo cosmopolita a la capital". ABC.
  3. ^ Ramón Iglesias Veiga, Xosé M. (1992). "Arquitectura y cinematógrafo en la ciudad de Vigo: Palacios, Gutiérrez Soto, Francisco Castro y Pedro Alonso". Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte. V. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia: 494. ISSN 1130-4715.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Maudes: una arquitectura de anticipación". Informes de la Construcción. 39 (389). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: 6. 1987. ISSN 0020-0883.
  5. ^ Neira, Fernando (26 June 2017). "Palacios resucita en Pacífico". El País.
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