Carlos Arniches Moltó
(Madrid, 1895 - 1955)

Carlos Arniches Moltó was the son of playwright Carlos Arniches and was always very close to the humorists of the Generation of 27. In 1923, he graduated from the School of Architecture in Madrid and traveled with Antoniorrobles to Italy, whose architecture left an imprint on some of his works. He wrote for El Sol and contributed to the special issue of La Gaceta Literaria dedicated to the new architecture. In 1927, he was appointed architect by the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, where he worked until 1936. He and his partner, Martín Domínguez, built the Instituto Escuela (the secondary school, the kindergarten, and the auditorium), and the library of the Residencia de Estudiantes. He also built a new wing of dorms for the Residencia de Señoritas.

He carried out the maintenance, renovation and improvement of buildings in the Residencia de Señoritas and in the Residencia de Estudiantes, designed by Antonio Flórez and Francisco Javier Luque. However, his projects for the headquarters of the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales y Económicos and the Fundación Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y Ensayos de Reforma, planned in August, 1936, were abandoned after 1939.

He also worked for the Patronato Nacional de Turismo, and built its road hostels.

His most important work was the Zarzuela’s hippodrome, built with his partner Martín Domínguez and engineer Eduardo Torroja after winning an open competition called for the Gabinete Técnico de Accesos y Extrarradio de Madrid in 1934. After the Civil War, he kept himself in a discreet internal exile surrounded by friends such as Fernando Chueca, Alfonso Buñuel, José Bello, Domingo Ortega and others, who met at Café Gijón.