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Carlos Raúl Villanueva

1900 - 1975

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Carlos Raúl Villanueva Astoul (May 30, 1900 – August 16, 1975) was a Venezuelan modernist architect. Raised in Europe, Villanueva went for the first time to Venezuela when he was 28 years old. He was involved in the development and modernization of Caracas, Maracay and other cities across the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Raúl Villanueva has received more than 68,015 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carlos Raúl Villanueva is the 423rd most popular architect (up from 424th in 2019), the 3,591st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,938th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Architect.

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  • 47.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Carlos Raúl Villanueva ranks 423 out of 518. Before him are Elias Holl, Adolf Lang, Paolo Portoghesi, Sándor Tarics, Ong Teng Cheong, and Mihály Pollack. After him are Peter Cook, Ventura Rodríguez, Daniel Marot, Jan Kaplický, Jan Kotěra, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Carlos Raúl Villanueva ranks 226. Before him are Mikhail Lavrentyev, Alan Helffrich, Ludovico Bidoglio, Zinaida Aksentyeva, Hélène Prévost, and Józef Kowalski. After him are Mildred Gillars, William Stevenson, István Fekete, Richard Hughes, Marta Abba, and Pierre Braine. Among people deceased in 1975, Carlos Raúl Villanueva ranks 190. Before him are Benjamin Jekhowsky, Nilo Murtinho Braga, Boris Babochkin, Marc Wright, Carl O. Sauer, and Carl Silfverstrand. After him are Gösta Andersson, Larry Fine, Gabriel Aresti, Hermann Paul Müller, Åge Lundström, and Lajos Steiner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Carlos Raúl Villanueva ranks 3,591 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Straw (1946), Colin Groves (1942), Robin Cook (1946), Sam Houser (1972), Ian Livingstone (1949), and Shirley Manson (1966). After him are Laurie Cunningham (1956), Piers Anthony (1934), John Christie (1899), Eric Brook (1907), John Paul Young (1950), and Edward Pigott (1753).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Carlos Raúl Villanueva ranks 25. Before him are Thomas Telford (1757), Charles Cameron (1746), John Soane (1753), Capability Brown (1716), Frederick Catherwood (1799), and Nora Stanton Barney (1883). After him are Peter Cook (1936), Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694), Edward Blore (1787), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), and Charles Robert Cockerell (1788).

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