Vicente Traver y Tomás was born in Castellón de la Plana on 23 September 1888.

[1] In 1913–15 he designed low-income housing for the city in the Real Patronato de Casas Baratas.

In 1926 Traver replaced Aníbal González as chief architect and designer for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.

In April 1939, at the end of civil war, he was appointed mayor of the city and remained in office until 1942.

[2] Other works included the old warehouses of the Spanish Credit Bank, today converted into a hotel at Avenida Manuel Siurot (1927-1929),[3] the Seminary of Valencia and the Diocesan Seminary of the Assumption of Tortosa, opened in 1951, and the neo-Romanesque chapel of San Liborio (Fuente En-Segures, Benassal).