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Enrique Nieto y Nieto (October 6, 1880 or 1883 – January 20, 1954) was a Spanish architect known for his Modernisme style (not to be confused with modernism), which he continued to receive commissions to design even after it fell out of favor. He was a student of 
File:EDIFICIO DEL ANTIGÜA REDACCIÓN EL TELEGRAMA DEL RIF.jpg, Antigua redacción de El Telegrama del Rif
File:Edificio El Acueducto.jpg, Casa de José García Álvaro (Edificio "El Acueducto")
File:CAMARA DE COMERCIO MELILLA.jpg, Cámara Oficial de Comercio, Industria y Navegación
File:Mezquita central melilla.jpg, Mezquita Central
File:Edificio Avenida de la Democracia 8.jpg, Avenida de la Democracia, 8
Enrique Nieto y Nieto (October 6, 1880 or 1883 – January 20, 1954) was a Spanish architect known for his Modernisme style (not to be confused with modernism), which he continued to receive commissions to design even after it fell out of favor. He was a student of Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( , ; ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalans, Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan ''Modernisme''. Gaudí's works have a style, with most located in Barc ...
and followed his master's style when he designed noted projects in Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...
and Melilla. In 1939, he was appointed city architect of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. Mellila's collection of modernisme-style buildings constitutes the second largest concentration of representatives of the style outside of Barcelona.
Places of worship
Nieto designed the main synagogue, Or Zaruah (or Holy Light) synagogue in 1924, the Central Mosque, and several buildings for the Catholic Church in Melilla.Other buildings
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
was the driving force of Melilla's architecture during the first half of the 20th century. Brought to Melilla by Enrique Nieto, the style is deeply rooted in a city which was overcome with floral ornamentation. From that moment on, Melilla promoted a style that managed to take root and progress, changing all that had been built in the city before. Plants, flowers, animals and women's faces filled the Art Nouveau façades, in which the brown and cream colour ranges brought out the ornaments. Nieto is cited for receiving design inspiration from the noted Mezquita de Córdoba (Cordoba mosque).
His notable work also includes the La Reconquista and Palacio Municipal (later renamed Autonomous City Palace) in Plaza de Europa. Nieto designed the National Theatre and Cinema building in Melilla in the 1920s which has a more geometrical style than most modernisme designs.
He retired in 1949 and died of a heart attack five years later.
Selected works
*C/ García Cabrelles, 1 y 3 (1928) *C/ General Prim, 7, 9, 10, 12, 16, 20 (1909–1910) *Cine Nacional (1929) *Avenida Juan Carlos I, 1 (1915–1916) *Edificio "La Reconquista", Plaza Menéndez Pelayo, s/n (1915) *Edificio "El Acueducto", c/ Reyes Católicos, 2 (1928) *Casa de Tortosa o antiguo Economato Militar (1914) *Casino Militar (1932) *Sinagoga Yamín Benarroch, c/ López Moreno (1924) *C/ López Moreno, 2, 14 y 20 (1924, 1923 y 1928) *Palacio de la Asamblea (1933–1948) *Edificio de "El Telegrama del Rif" (1912) *Cámara de Comercio, c/ Cervantes, 7 (1913) *Mezquita Central (1945) *Avenida de la Democracia, 8 *Mercado del Real (1932) *C/ Cardenal Cisneros, 2 (1935) *C/ Cándido Lobera, 2 y 4 (1933–1935) *Monumento a los Héroes de España (1941)Gallery
Notes
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080820204515/http://www.melillamonumental.org/ingles/dos/ingeniero.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20080820023001/http://www.melillaturismo.com/ingles/paseos.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20080820023432/http://www.melillaturismo.com/ingles/modernista.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20110720143000/http://www.oapee.es/documentum/MECPRO/Web/weboapee/pap/comenius/eventos/noviembre07/melilla07informacion.pdf?documentId=0901e72b80004200 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nieto, Enrique 1880s births 1954 deaths Architects from Catalonia Modernisme architects 20th-century Spanish architects