Vicente Traver y Tomás
{{short description|Spanish architect}}
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| birth_date = 23 September 1888
| birth_place = Castellón de la Plana
| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|11|15|1888|9|23}}
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| nationality = Spanish
| other_names =
| known_for = Buildings designed for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929
| occupation = Architect
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Vicente Traver y Tomás (23 September 1888 – 15 November 1966) was a Spanish architect.
His most notable works were constructed in Seville between 1915 and 1933.
Biography
Vicente Traver y Tomás was born in Castellón de la Plana on 23 September 1888. His secondary education was at the Santa Clara Institute in his home town. He studied as an architect in Madrid, qualifying in 1912.
After completing his studies he practiced as an architect in Seville, where he remained until 1933.{{sfn|Vicente Traver Tomás, Alcalde, arquitecto y humanista}} In 1913–15 he designed low-income housing for the city in the Real Patronato de Casas Baratas. In 1926 Traver replaced Aníbal González as chief architect and designer for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.{{sfn|Vicente Traver y Tomás: el arquitecto olvidado}}
After the Second Spanish Republic was declared, in 1933 he moved back to Castellón. In April 1939, at the end of civil war, he was appointed mayor of the city and remained in office until 1942.{{sfn|Vicente Traver Tomás, Alcalde, arquitecto y humanista}}
That year he became architect of the Diocese of Alicante.{{sfn|Vicente Traver y Tomás: el arquitecto olvidado}}
Works
Vicente Traver created his most important works in the city of Seville:
- Joint Royal Trust houses for low-cost housing of the future (1915){{sfn|Sevilla siglo XX: Traver}}
- Miguel Garcia House Longoria Plaza Nueva, street corner Badajoz (1917-1920){{sfn|Cuando la Plaza Nueva era Casa Grande}}
- Project for expansion of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken, never carried out due to the start of the Spanish Civil War and the recent discovery of Roman ruins in the Almoina square beside the building.
- Spanish Provident Building on Calle Orfila, the current headquarters of the Ateneo de Sevilla (1923).
- Corpus Christi Church on Avenida de la Palmera (1929-1933){{sfn|Sevilla siglo XX: Traver}}
At the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 Traver was responsible for the exhibition's Casino and the Teatro Lope de Vega.
He also helped design the Plaza de España.{{sfn|Vicente Traver y Tomás: el arquitecto olvidado}}
Other works included the old warehouses of the Spanish Credit Bank, today converted into a hotel at Avenida Manuel Siurot (1927-1929),{{sfn|Sevilla siglo XX: Traver}}
the Seminary of Valencia and the Diocesan Seminary of the Assumption of Tortosa, opened in 1951, and the neo-Romanesque chapel of San Liborio (Fuente En-Segures, Benassal).
File:Casa Longoria 001.jpg|Facade of the Casa Longoria at the Plaza Nueva, designed by Vicente Traver and built between 1917 and 1920.
File:Casino expo 1929 Séville.JPG|Exposition Casino (1929) Sevilla. Designed by Vicente Traver.
File:Patio del Ateneo.JPG|Courtyward of the Ateneo de Sevilla
File:Ateneo de Sevilla.JPG|Main façade, Ateneo de Sevilla
File:Villa Luisa Sevilla.jpg|Villa Luisa, former house of Don Herman Bemberg, now open for private & corporate events under the family management. Manuel Siurot 1. Designed by Vicente Traver.
References
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Sources
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- {{citation|ref={{harvid|Cuando la Plaza Nueva era Casa Grande}}|language=Spanish
|title=Cuando la Plaza Nueva era Casa Grande|date=2006-05-30|work=ABC (España)
|url = http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-30-05-2006/sevilla/Home/cuando-la-plaza-nueva-era-casa-grande_1421785342723.html|accessdate=2009-04-04}}
- {{citation|ref={{harvid|Sevilla siglo XX: Traver}}|url= http://www.sevillasigloxx.com/search/label/traver|language=Spanish
|title= Sevilla siglo XX: Traver|date = 2009-01-30|accessdate= 2009-04-04}}
- {{citation|ref={{harvid|Vicente Traver Tomás, Alcalde, arquitecto y humanista}}|language=Spanish
|title=Vicente Traver Tomás, Alcalde, arquitecto y humanista
|url= http://www3.uji.es/~belles/Salvador%20Belles/Seres%20Humanos%20de%20Castell%F3n/Vicente%20Traver%20Tom%E1s.pdf|accessdate=2009-03-04}}
- {{citation|ref={{harvid|Vicente Traver y Tomás: el arquitecto olvidado}}|url=http://www.dedalocultura.com/verja/vicente-traver-y-tomas-el-arquitecto-olvidado/
|title=Vicente Traver y Tomás: el arquitecto olvidado|language=Spanish|work=dedalocultura.com|date=2014-03-24|accessdate=2015-01-05}}
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Category:20th-century Spanish architects