Juan Martínez Gutiérrez

Juan Tomás Martínez Gutiérrez, also known as Juan Martínez (Bilbao, Spain, February 8, 1901 - Santiago, Chile, January 31, 1976) was a Chilean architect awarded the inaugural National Architecture Prize in 1969.

Education and career

Born in Bilbao, Spain, Juan Martínez emigrated with his family, spending some time in Argentina between 1907 and 1909, before finally arriving in Chile that same year.

Martínez enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Chile in 1918, graduating in 1922. led to projects such as the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, the Chile Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition in Sevilla, the Votive Temple of Maipú, and the Chilean Army Military School.

Between 1953 and 1956, he participated in the project of the Central Library of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) alongside Gustav Saavedra as associates of Mexican architect Juan O'Gorman.

Identified as "one of the most important Chilean architects of the 20th century",