Alberto Cruz Montt | |
Birth Date: | 1879 |
Birth Place: | Valparaíso |
Death Date: | August 1955 |
Death Place: | Santiago |
Nationality: | Chilean |
Alberto Cruz Montt (1879 – 1955), was a Chilean architect and professor who was an exponent of the Neoclassical style.
Alberto Cruz Montt was son of Ramón Cruz Moreno and Eloísa Montt Montt. He was educated at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris.
He married Beatriz Larraín Bravo, the sister of the also architect Ricardo Larraín Bravo, who was his partner in various architectural works, like the Palacio Íñiguez, currently housing the Confitería Torres.[1]
He was professor of History of Architecture at the Universidad de Chile and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, between 1952 and 1955.[2] [3]