Rafael Manzano Martos

He was a disciple of Professors Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Leopoldo Torres Balbás, Fernando Chueca Goitia and Francisco Íñiguez Almech.

As a student under Professors Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Torres Balbás, Chueca Goitia and Íñiguez Almech, he specialized in historic studies and in the Theory and Techniques of Monument Restoration.

In his restorations of monuments, he has avoided any aggressive approach to the buildings of the past, respecting the architecture handed down and complementing it with a simple yet academic architecture that integrates into the monument without any visual aggression or turning it into a pretext for creating a contemporary work of questionable quality.

In Spain he received the Golden Medal of the Fine Arts (13 April 1972)[6] and he is Knight Commander of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise (7 November 1967).

[7] In terms of international acclaim he was awarded with the 2010 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Traditional and Classical Architecture for his entire career.