Abstract
Josep Claret Rubira (Girona, 1908-1988), architect of profession and artist-sketcher of vocation, obtained his university degree from the School of Architecture of Barcelona in 1933. From this year to the middle seventies, he projected an enormous amount of buildings of multiple typologies and numerous plans of urbanization throughout Girona and Menorca. His early political ideology was close to left wing, so he had to adapt to the pro-Franco regime to be able to continue working and living in Catalonia. Although it had probably been hard at the beginning, the connection process was easy (at least apparently), thanks to his relationship by marriage with a family who was closely linked to it. He is the author of works of high architectural level (being a few of them known and recognised) and a clear organiser of the landscape of his territory, an influential fact in the society that has been living there since then. His architecture is a magnificent example of what people from five decades liked. He is also the author of works that do not often fit in with what is considered correct, according to the History of Architecture, but reflect the taste, the preferences and the priorities of a certain society.
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