Francesc Roca i Simó
Spanish, 1874-1940
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Francesc Roca i Simó was one of the great architects of the time in the Islands and Iberoamerica. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Madrid in 1906, and manifested influences of Catalan modernism and Viennese secessionism in his first works in Palma - projecting the spectacular Can Cassassayas (1908-09) and the famous Casa Roca (1908 ). Later he introduced Art Nouveau elements in ints constructions and finished cultivating the eclecticism. Note that in 1910 he moved to the city of Rosario, in Argentina, introducing in the country Modernism and making a series of monumental projects such as the Palacio Cabanellas (1912) and the Club Español ( 1915) in the same city of Rosario and the building of the Banco de Castilla in Buenos Aires. In 1916 he designed the building of the Collegeof Public Notaries of the Balearic Islands at the Via Roma of Palma, one of his most famous works. It was in 1921 when he designed the Palauet de Can Cremat in Sóller.
