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Joaquin Vaquero Palacios

Joaquin Vaquero Palacios (1900 - 1998) was active/lived in Spain.  Joaquin Palacios is known for Abstract landscape painting, architecture, sculpture, drawings, murals.

The untold story of the architect who turned Spain’s modernist power plants into art

This is a tale of both a family and a country, and their heritages that spanned nearly . Deep in the Cantabrian Mountains, some 150 kilometres away from his hometown of Oviedo in northern Spain, a young Joaquín Vaquero Palacios (1900-1998) used to travel around on horseback with his father, one of the founders of the Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico company (now part of the EDP group). Here, immersed in resplendent scenery, they scouted for a location for what would become the second largest hydroelectric dam in Europe at the time.

But this was to be no ordinary dam. In the 1950s, Vaquero Palacios – now a trained architect, painter and sculptor – was entrusted by the company’s management to use his creative mind to enhance the environment and condition of its facilities. Over the coming decades, he created some of the finest examples of 20th-century modernist Spanish industrial buildings, in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6661 characters.]  Artist bio

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