{in spanish} was born in London the 30.5.1900, died in Caracas the 16.8.1975. Teacher of the modern architecture in Venezuela. Masters of modern architecture in Venezuela. Son of the Venezuelan diplomat Carlos Antonio Villanueva and of Paulina Astoul. And Paulina Astoul is of Venezuelan diplomat Carlos Antonio Villanueva. Grandson of Laureano Villanueva. Laureano Grandson of Villanueva. He realised his studies of average education in the Lycée Condorcet of Paris and the superiors in l` École DES Beaux-Arts {1920}, under the direction of Gabriel Héraud. There am studied in secondary education AT Lycée Condorcet Paris and superiors in l ` Ecole DES Beaux-Arts {1920}, directed by Gabriel Héraud. Graduated in 1928, it returned to settle down in our country. Graduated in 1928, there am returned to settle in our country. The works developed by Villanueva during his first 10 years of professional activity, had a noticeable eclectic character derived so much to their academic education as to the cultural conditions that reigned in Venezuela for that moment. The works carried out by professional Villanueva during its first 10 years of activity, had to distinctly eclectic derived both to their academic education and cultural conditions prevailing in Venezuela AT that Time. This lapse it entered to work in the Public Work Ministry, remaining soon to the service of the state. In this period Comecon to work AT the Ministry of Public Works, then staying in the service of the state. It enters the main carried out projects this time appear the hotel Garden of Maracay {1929}, of simplified to forms neobarrocas and Frenchified; the Bullring of the same city {1933}, and the Museum of Beautiful Arts {1934-1935}, works in which considered the elements neoclassic {garden and patios aporticados with neoclassic columns} traditional from the Venezuelan architecture, which also maintained in the contiguous Museum of Natural Sciences, conceived as an axial succession of spaces differentiated in its dimensions and forms. Major Among the projects carried out in this Time include the Garden Hotel in Maracay {1929}, simplified forms and neobarroca afrancesamiento; the bullring in the same City {1933}, and the Museum of Fine Arts {1934-1935}, neoclassical Works in which it took into account the elements {aporticados gardens and courtyards with neoclassical columns} traditional Venezuelan architecture, which also remained in the adjacent Museum of Natural Sciences, conceived axial ace to succession of spaces differentiated in its dimensions and forms.
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