THE ARCHITECT JAVIER AGUIRRE ITURRALDE (1850-1939)

The architect from San Sebastian was characterized by his innovative designs of squares and walkways covered with iron and glass, his social sensitivity to facilities such as hospitals, schools, cheap houses or prisons, and a t technical expertise in his public infrastructure projects and urbanization plans. Because of all this, he represented a capital figure for sixteen years in the modernization of the capital of the Principality and the Asturian region at the service of its Provincial Council and, for nearly forty years,