#Severino de Achúcarro y Mocoroa

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Castro Urdiales, Spain (No. 1)  

Severino de Achúcarro y Mocoroa (Bilbao, 1841 - Paris, 1910) was a Spanish architect representative of his time, dominated by eclecticism, with an evolution towards modernism, and especially, art nouveau.​

He studied at the School of Architecture in Madrid, graduating in 1866, later expanding his training in Angoulême and Paris. Throughout his life he was closely related to the Gallic country, where he also came to design some buildings.

He was a capital figure of nineteenth-century Basque architecture, because in his youth he triumphed in several competitions and received commissions from the Bilbao City Council.

He designed and intervened in many buildings of the Villa del Nervión such as the headquarters of the Society El Sitio in Bidebarrieta Street (current Municipal Library of Bidebarrieta), the reform of the façade of the Cathedral of Santiago, the Hotel Términus, the Santander Train Station -old station of La Concordia- (1898), the building of the Bank of Bilbao (of the Plaza de San Nicolás, 4) with Eugéne Lavalle and Enrique de Epalza (1898), numerous tenement houses such as Sota in Alameda Mazarredo, or Casa Isidra del Cerro (1899) and Los Chelines (1902) in Castro Urdiales, among others. In addition, in 1876 he elaborated, together with Pablo de Alzola and Ernesto Hoffmeyer, the Plan de Ensanche de Bilbao.

His is also the casino of Bermeo (Vizcaya) of 1894.

He died in Paris, on one of his countless trips to France, in 1910.

Source: WIkipedia

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