Pedro Ispizua
Pedro Ispizua Susunaga (29 April 1895 – 10 January 1976) was a Spanish architect who worked as the municipal architect of Bilbao from 1920 until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, after which he worked exclusively as a liberal professional. Throughout his career, he designed several emblematic buildings in Bilbao and Biscay, most notably Mercado de la Ribera, Club Deportivo de Bilbao, and the Colegio de Santiago Apóstol.
Pedro Ispizua

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- Name
- Pedro Ispizua
- Birth Name
- Pedro Ispizua Susunaga
- Born
- 29 April 1895
- Birthplace
- Bermeo, Biscay, Spain
- Died
- 10 January 1976
- Place of death
- Bilbao, Spain
- Known for
- Work at Mercado de la Ribera and Colegio de Santiago Apóstol
- Occupation
- * Architect
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish · Basque
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Pedro Ispizua Susunaga (29 April 1895 – 10 January 1976) was a Spanish architect who worked as the municipal architect of Bilbao from 1920 until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, after which he worked exclusively as a liberal professional. Throughout his career, he designed several emblematic buildings in Bilbao and Biscay, most notably Mercado de la Ribera, Club Deportivo de Bilbao, and the Colegio de Santiago Apóstol.
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• Name — Pedro Ispizua • Birth Name — Pedro Ispizua Susunaga • Born — 29 April 1895 • Birthplace — Bermeo, Biscay, Spain • Died — 10 January 1976 • Place of death — Bilbao, Spain • Citizenship — Spanish • Known for — Work at Mercado de la Ribera and Colegio de Santiago Apóstol • Occupation — * Architect
Works
Works
• Illustration — Arenal Kiosk in Bilbao. • Casa Garategui, Bermeo (1921) • Casa Muñoa, Bermeo (1921) • Hygienic houses for fishermen, Bermeo (1921) • Casa Astorquiza, Bermeo (1921) • Ciudad Jardín Bilbaína, Bilbao (1922) • Ollerías school group, Bilbao (1922 project, 1931 realization) • Tomás Camacho school group, Bilbao (1922) • Maestro García Rivero school group in the Atxuri neighborhood, Bilbao (1923 project, 1926–28 realization) • Casa de Julián Abando, Henao 38-42, Bilbao (1923–25) • Casa Cartaeta, Bermeo (1924) • Palomar del Arenal, Bilbao (1924, knocked down in the 1940s) • Casa Abans-Azurmendi, Recalde 57, Bilbao (1925) • Casa Salgado, General Concha 24-26, Bilbao (1925) • Bitz-Gane Residential Group, Bakio (1925) • Pergola of the Doña Casilda Iturrizar Park, Bilbao (1925) • Casa Garay, Bakio (1926) • Casa Serrats, Bermeo (1926) • Casa Sociedad Tonelera del Norte, Goya 6 and Gordoniz 54, Bilbao (1926) • Casa Errekakoetxe 6-10, Bilbao (1926) • Casa Urquijo 37-43, Bilbao (1926) • Cinema Ideal, Bilbo (1926, missing) • Kiosco de música in Arenal (Bilbao) (1923–28) • Mercado de la Ribera, Bilbao (1927–30) • Monument-fountain to Bolívar, Ziortza-Bolibar (1927) • Infectious Diseases Hospital near the BBK Children's House, Bermeo (1928) • Casa S.A. Elejabarri, Gordoniz 50-52 and Goya 1-9, Bilbao (1928) • Casa Ispizua y Vega Vivero, Dr Carmelo Gil 9, Bilbao (1929) • S.A. Iparraguirre Group Houses, Iparraguirre 56 and Egaña 23-27, Bilbao (1928–29) • Club Deportivo de Bilbao (1929–31, demolished in the 1967) • Casa Barañano, Bilbao (1930) • Casa Fernández Gamboa, Iparraguirre 45-47, Bilbao (1930–31) • Casa Guerrero-García-Ispizua, Labayru 19-23, Bilbao (1930) • School Church of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, Bermeo (1930) • Auxiliary Office Building of the Bilbao City Hall (1931) • Batzoki of Bermeo (1932) • Luis Briñas School Group, Bilbao (1933) • Vivienda Ispizua, Avenida de las Universidades 8, Bilbao (1933, demolished in the 1970s) • Casa Azurmendi, Recalde 55, Bilbao (1933) • Casa Abando, Iparraguire 9-11 and Juan Ajuriaguerra 21, Bilbao (1933–34) • Casa Hermanos Zárate, calle Santa María, Bilbao (1934) • Edificio Gutiérrez, Licenciado Poza, Bilbao (1934) • Casa Arenaza, María Díaz de Haro 20, Bilbao (1935) • Casa Martínez, Iparraguirre 41-43, Bilbao (1935) • Casa Panera, Licenciado Poza 31-33 and Ercilla 36, Bilbao (1935) • Casa Hernaiz, en Dr. Areilza 2, Bilbao (1935–36) • Casa Gurtubay, Urquijo 52 and Plaza Indautxu, Bilbao (1936–39) • Casa Panera, Rodríguez Arias 10-12 and Ercilla, Bilbao (1936) • Casa Echeverría, Gordoniz 20, Bilbao (1938) • Casa Panera, Gran Vía 48 and Máximo Aguirre 11, Bilbao (1938–39) • Casa San Martín, Rodríguez Arias 19-21, Bilbao (1938) • Casa Bruno, Urquijo 44-48, Bilbao (1939) • Casa Fernández Gamboa, Bilbao and Andrés Isasi, Guecho (1939) • Casa Panera, Colón de Larreategui 33, Bilbao (1939) • Casa Olabarría, Plaza Zabalburu 1 and Alda. San Mamés, Bilbao (1938–40) • Casa Panera, Gran Vía 70-72, Bilbao (1940) • Edificio de Viviendas, Gran Vía 79, Bilbao (1940) • Casa Unceta, Guernika (1940) • Colegio La Salle, Palencia (1940) • Casa Medina, General Eguía 37, Bilbao (1941) • Teatro Ayala, in Manuel Allende 18, Bilbao (1941–43 missing) • Casa Panera, en Gran Vía 55 esquina con Gregorio de la Revilla 1, Bilbao (1941–46) • Casa Lachiondo, Getxo (1942) • Edificio El Tigre, Deusto (1942–47) • Ormaza Factory, Bermeo (1942) • Tejada Building, Núñez de Balboa 83 and Juan Bravo, Madrid (1942) • Bilbao Real Estate, Gran Vía 68, Bilbao (1943) • Edificio Aviación y Comercio, Bilbao (1944) • Jardines de Albia, Bilbao (urbanismo, 1944) • Casa Abaitua-Bayo, Dr Areilza 38, Bilbao (1945) • Grupo Residencial Larrazábal, Zurbaran (1945) • Casa Ispizua Uribarri, Recalde 8-10, Bilbao (1946) • Colegio La Salle, Santander (1946) • Church of the College of Santiago Apóstol La Salle, Bilbao (1946–50, demolished in 1976 due to the closure of the College) • Casa Ispizua, Recalde 12-14, Bilbao (1946–51) • Casa Besga, currently Archivo Histórico de Euskadi, María Días de Haro 3, Bilbao (1947, remodeled facade) • Colegio Santa María, Portugalete (1948) • Colegio La Salle, Valladolid (1950) • Astra-Unceta Factory, Gernika (1950) • Aroe Housing Workshops, Enrique Eguren 5 y Labayru 6, Bilbao (1951) • Colegio La Salle, Santiago de Compostela (1952) • Club Arizona, currently Hotel Catalonia Gran Vía Bilbao, Gran Vía 71, Bilbao (1953, demolished 2017) • Colegio Lourdes La Salle, Valladolid (1953) • Casa Ispizua, Algorta (1954) • Casa Abando Bengoa, Guecho (1956) • Ordination La Salle Center, Seminary and Church, Salamanca (1956) • Reconstruction of the Santuario de Santa María de la Estrella of the De La Salle Brothers, San Asensio (La Rioja) (1951–58) • Iglesia de San Felicísimo, Bilbao (1958–60) • Church of Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz of the Minor Capuchin of Valladolid (1961–63) • Casa Ugalde, Mungia (1962) • Colegio Hermanas Carmelitas de la Caridad, Vitoria (1963)
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Bermeo.
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Bilbao.
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- 1.Pedro Ispizua Susunaga. historia-hispanica.rah.es.
- 2.Ucelay Uriarte, José María de. aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus.
- 3.Pedro Ispizua: Aportaciones a la arquitectura bilbaína de preguerra. www.bilbaovisitavirtual.eus. 14 January 2004.
- 4.Proyecto Ispizua 2020. i3arquitectos.com.
- 5.Ciudad jardín bilbaína. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 6.Grupo escolar Ollerías. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 7.Escuelas Maestro García Rivero. www.bilbaoarquitectura.com.
- 8.Casa Abando. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 9.Kiosco de música en el Arenal. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 10.Mercado de la Ribera. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 11.Grupo de casas para la S.A. Iparraguirre. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 12.Club deportivo de Bilbao. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 13.Casa Barañano. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 14.Casa Fernández Gamboa. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 15.Edificio de oficinas del ayuntamiento de Bilbao. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 16.Batzoki de Bermeo. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 17.Colegio Público Luis Briñas. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 18.Vivienda unifamiliar Ispizua. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 19.Casa Abando. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 20.Casa Hernaíz. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 21.Casa Gurtubay. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 22.Casa Olabarría. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 23.Edificio de Viviendas. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 24.Teatro Ayala. Prospectos de Cine.
- 25.Casa Panera. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 26.Edificio Muñoz Mendizábal, Fábrica de correas "El Tigre". Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 27.Edificio de Viviendas "Aviación y Comercio" en Bilbao. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 28.Jardines de Albia. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 29.Iglesia Santiago Apóstol La Salle. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 30.Casa Ispizua. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
- 31.Iglesia de San Felicísimo. Centro Vasco de Arquitectura.
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