Vicente Martorell Otzet

Vicente Martorell Otzet (1903 – unknown) was a Spanish military engineer, urban planner, and author.

Early life Vicente Martorell was born in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona in 1903, as the son of Emilia Otzet and Vicente Martorell Portas, a military engineer. He had two younger brothers, Fernando and Alberto, who both followed medicine, as well as one older brother Ramón, with both of them deciding instead to follow in their father's footsteps, becoming military engineers. After returning to Barcelona, he participated in the works of the Pedralbes and cavalry barracks, and in 1953, he became the first president of the newly-established Barcelona urban planning commission.

Writing career In 1959, Martorell wrote La gestión urbanística en el orden funcional ("Urban Management in the Functional Order"), and in 1970, he contributed to Historia del urbanismo en Barcelona ("History of Urban Planning in Barcelona").