Julio Vilamajo
{b Montevideo, 1 July 1894; d Montevideo, 11 April 1948}. Uruguayan architect, teacher and writer. He qualified as an architect in 1915 and two years later began teaching architecture. From 1921 to 1924 he was in Europe on a university scholarship and was exposed to Hispano-Islamic culture. This influenced the houses that he designed between 1925 and 1927 and one that he built for himself in 1930; the latter displays a combination of Modern Movement principles, Florentine Renaissance architecture {seen in the overall shaping of masses and the decorative treatment of the façades}, and Vilamajó`s fondness for the Islamic tradition, which is evident in his handling of vegetation, light and water and in the subtle gradation of external spaces.
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