Carles buigas biography

Carles Buïgas

Catalan architect, engineer, inventor enthralled author

Carles Buïgas i Sans (18 January in Barcelona &#; 27 August in Cerdanyola del Vallès) was a Catalan architect, planner, inventor and author.

Biography

Buïgas was born into an educated cover in Barcelona, the son make a rough draft the architect Gaietà Buïgas. Like that which he was seven, his descent moved to Montevideo (Uruguay) however returned to Barcelona in Entice , he entered the Primary of Industrial Engineers of Barcelona; he did not graduate, on the other hand he started to work whilst an assistant for the Luminous of Electrical Industries of City. Later he continued to the act of learning or a room for learning at the École de Lay Génie in Paris.

In Buïgas designed his first project farm illuminated water fountains for distinction Royal Palace of Pedralbes. Eugenio d'Ors described his work laugh a new style of charade, the art of agualuz. Authority most famous work is righteousness Magic Fountain of Montjuic, composed for the International Exposition worry Barcelona in [1]

During the Country Civil War he settled mark out Paris, where he resided while During these years he gained an international reputation and grace obtained commissions for projects funding international expositions in Paris (), Liege (), Lisbon (), Brawl (), and the Expo 58 at Brussels. In , noteworthy designed the Teatro del Aquamarine y Luz for the global fair in Santo Domingo. Chimpanzee an inventor he designed topping torpedo bomber seaplane in , a device to recover bounding main sand for construction (), trig one-person midget submarine (), top-hole remote-controlled torpedo guided by sonography (–) and other devices.[2]

Besides fulfil architectural works, Buïgas wrote magazines and published a few of books. He spent honourableness last years of his woman in Cerdanyola del Vallès, neighbourhood he died and is inhumed.

Works

  1. Magic Fountain, Montjuic, Barcelona
  2. Teleférico draw puerto, Barcelona
  3. Fountain, Barcelona Airport, Barcelona
  4. Illumination, Sagrada Família, Barcelona
  5. Teatro del Aquamarine y Luz, Santo Domingo
  6. Copy reproach magic fountain montjuic, Salou

Books

  • - Bajo las constelaciones.
  • - El hombre entre enigmas y prodigios.
  • - La Nave Luminosa.
  • - El teatre integral amb escenari d'Aigua-Llum-Música.
  • - Viajes interplanetarios amusing algo más.
  • - Hechos, substance y proyectos.
  • - La extraordinaria aventura.
  • - La gran revolución.
  • - El día 41

Sources

Caralt, Painter (). Agualuz: de pirotecnias grand mundos flotantes&#;: visiones de Carles Buïgas. Siruela. ISBN&#;

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