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Life:
Born in Valls (Alt Camp) in 1888.
He finished his studies of architecture in 1916 in Barcelona.
In 1923 he was designed dean of Barcelona architects College and also named Professor and Secretary of the Escola d'Arts i Oficis of Barcelona (Art and offices school) in 1929.
He was one of the founders of the Centre d'Estudis Gaudinistes (Gaudinist studies Center) in 1952.
Martorell was also a writer collaborating with different publications as Revista de Catalunya, Destino, La Vanguardia and others.
He was also writer of an important quantity of books mainly on architecture, specially "Arquitectura i escultura barroca a Catalunya", "Gaudí: su vida, su teoría, su obra", and together with other writers "Construcciones agrarias en Cataluña" on a question on he was a specialist. Effectively he projected and built during his life near of 40 cellars and other agricultural constructions who are known, due to it's magnificence, as Wine Cathedrals.
Martinell doesn't only designed the buildings themselves but also he organized the spaces to develop the production, he designed the stores and machinery distribution.
His style is normally classified in Art Nouveau but with influences of Noucentisme (the style following the Art Nouveau in Catalonia). That is evident in his buildings where he used profusely the Catalan "totxo" (brick) around the windows, columns and ceramics for decoration.
Cèsar Martinell died  in 19 November 1973.

Works:

-Bodega Agricola de Les Cabanyes 
-Cooperativa Agricola de Rocafort de Queralt 
-Cooperativa Agricola de Vila-rodona  
-Patronat Catolic de Sant Pere Claver de Verdú 
-Sindicat Agricola d'Aiguamúrcia 
-Sindicat Agricola d'Alió  
-Sindicat Agricola de Barberà de la Conca 
-Sindicat Agricola de Cabra del Camp 
-Sindicat Agricola de Ciutadilla 
-Sindicat Agricola de Falset 
-Sindicat Agricola de Llorenç del Penedès 
-Sindicat Agricola de Miralcamp 
-Sindicat Agricola de Moja 
-Sindicat Agricola de Pinell de Brai  
-Sindicat Agricola de Pira 
-Sindicat Agricola de Sant Isidre de Nulles 
-Sindicat Agricola de Soleràs 
-Sindicat Agricola de Torregrossa 
-Sindicat Agricola de Vilallonga del Camp 
-Sindicat Agricola d'Ulldecona 
-Sindicat Agricola i Caixa Rural de Cornudella de Montsant 
-Sindicat Agricola i Caixa Rural de l'Albí 
-Sindicat Agricola i Caixa Rural d'Ivars d'Urgell 
-Sindicat Agricola i Caixa Rural de Palau d'Anglesola 
-Sindicat "Arbeca Nova" d'Arbeca 
-Sindicat de Cooperativa Agricola de Gandesa 
-Sindicat de vinicultors de Montblanc 
-Sindicat "l'Oliva Arbequina" d'Arbeca 
-Societat Agricola La Practica d'Albatàrrec 

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