Rafael Manzano Martos

Rafael Manzano Martos (born in Cádiz, Spain on 6 November 1936) is a Spanish architect. He was educated at the Superior Technical School of Architecture in Madrid. He was a disciple of Professors Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Leopoldo Torres Balbás, Fernando Chueca Goitia and Francisco Íñiguez Almech.

Rafael Manzano Martos
Born (1936-11-06) 6 November 1936
Cádiz, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationArchitect
SpouseConcepción Pérez Montes (deceased)
ChildrenJulia María and Miguel Ángel
Parent(s)Rafael Manzano Trujillo
María Luisa Martos Lalanne[1]
AwardsKnight Commander of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise, 1967
Golden Medal of the Fine Arts, 1972
Shiller Prize, 1980
Silver Medal of Osuna, 2001
Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, 2010
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal, 2021
Federico Joly Prize, 2022
PracticeEstudio Manzano

Manzano is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture. There is an architecture prize named after him, the Rafael Manzano Prize for New Traditional Architecture.[2]

Education

Rafael Manzano Martos earned his degree from the Technical School of Architecture in Madrid in 1961, and his Doctorate in 1963. As a student under Professors Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Torres Balbás, Chueca Goitia and Íñiguez Almech, he specialized in historic studies and in the Theory and Techniques of Monument Restoration. He was also a collaborator at the School of Arab Studies in Madrid from 1956 to 1963, where he cultivated his interest in Islamic history and archaeology.[3]

Selected works and projects
Museo del Prado Extension

In all of his works, he has expressed his faithfulness to the classical idiom and to the integration of his work in the urban setting or in the rural landscape. In his restorations of monuments, he has avoided any aggressive approach to the buildings of the past, respecting the architecture handed down and complementing it with a simple yet academic architecture that integrates into the monument without any visual aggression or turning it into a pretext for creating a contemporary work of questionable quality.

He has restored and consolidated the following monuments, among others:

Awards and honors

Manzano is a member of several Spanish academic institutions, including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the Royal Academies of the History and of Fine arts of Granada, Córdoba, Cádiz, Málaga, Écija, Toledo and La Coruña, and the Academy of the Good Letters of Seville.

In Spain he received the Golden Medal of the Fine Arts (13 April 1972)[6] and he is Knight Commander of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise (7 November 1967).[7]

In terms of international acclaim he was awarded with the 2010 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Traditional and Classical Architecture for his entire career.[8]

Previously, in 1980 he received the Shiller Prize for Restoration and Conservation.

Also, he received the Silver Medal of the City of Osuna in 2001.[9]

On 9 April 2021, he received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal for his service to the Catholic Church.[10]

In January 2022, he receiced the Federico Joly Prize.

Selected bibliography
  • José Guerrero Lovillo, Rafael Manzano Martos, and Enrique de la Vega Viguera. Tres Estudios Sobre Sevilla. Sevilla: Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras, 1984.
  • Rafael Manzano Martos, Fernando Chueca Goitia and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. La Qubba, Aula Regia En La España Musulmana. Madrid : Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1994.
  • Rafael Manzano Martos. La Alhambra : El Universo Mágico De La Granada Islámica. Madrid: Grupo Anaya, 1992.
  • Rafael Manzano Martos. El Jardín En La España Musulmana, edited by Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría. Sevilla: 1990.

References
  1. My Heritage
  2. "Premio Rafael Manzano Martos" Accessed 05 June 2015.
  3. "Rafael Manzano Martos" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  4. Keegan, Edward. "2010 Driehaus Prize Goes to Rafael Manzano Martos", Architecture Magazine, January 14, 2010. Accessed 05 June 2015
  5. Manuel Gavier
  6. Boletín Oficial del Estado
  7. Boletín Oficial del Estado
  8. "Rafael Manzano Martos" Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 05 June 2015
  9. Hemeroteca ABC
  10. Asenjo reconoce a tres laicos sevillanos con la medalla Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
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