Spanish architect and sculptor, active mainly in Salamanca. In the years between 1750 and 1755 he completed his best known work, the Plaza Mayor and the town hall in Salamanca. The long-drawn-out construction of the Jesuit college of La Clerecia in Salamanca had been stagnating. He completed it with towers, belfry and the inner courtyard. As a sculptor, he produced several altars for churches.
Powerful giant half-columns on high pedestals, and a deeply overhanging entablature with its own corbelling lend a dynamic to the fa�ade, which is deeply recessed behind this system of projections. The monumentality of Roman architecture is combined with Iberian surface decoration. The Clerecia courtyard is therefore completely independent of French and Italian court architecture of the Bourbon regime.
Salamanca still centres on its fine arcaded Plaza Mayor (1729–33; designed by Alberto Churriguera and completed by Andr�s Garc�a de Quinones), which was originally intended to serve on occasion as a bullring and which has a surrounding arcade ornamented on two sides with medallions of the kings of Spain. There also is the Town Hall (Ayuntamiento) designed by Alberto Churriguera and completed only in 1755 by Andr�s Garc�a de Quiñones.
