Alfredo Jones Brown
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Jones and the second or maternal family name is Brown.
Alfredo Jones Brown (Montevideo, 1876 - 1950) was a Uruguayan architect.
His father, Enrique Agustín Jones de Elía, was of British descent; and his mother, Natividad Brown Blanco, was a granddaughter of admiral William Brown.
He graduated as an architect at the University of the Republic.
Notable works
- Edificio Rex
- Instituto Alfredo Vásquez Acevedo
- Escuela Alemania
Literature
- Lucchini, Aurelio (1969). Ideas y formas en la arquitectura nacional. Colección Nuestra Tierra 6. Montevideo. (Spanish)
- Lucchini, Aurelio (1986). El Concepto de Arquitectura y su traducción a formas en el territorio que hoy pertenece a Uruguay. Montevideo: Universidad de la República. (Spanish)
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