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    Carlos Raúl Villanueva was a prominent Venezuelan architect of the 20th century known for his modernist designs. He is most renowned for designing the Ciudad Universitaria campus of the Central University of Venezuela, considered a masterpiece of modern city planning. Villanueva studied architecture in France and the United States before returning to Venezuela in to work for the Ministry of Public Works. Throughout his career, he designed many buildings in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities that incorporated modern styles and integrated artworks. The Ciudad Universitaria, completed from to , stands as his magnum opus and showcased his vision of synthesizing architecture, art, and urban planning.

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    Carlos Raúl Villanueva was a prominent Venezuelan architect of the 20th century known for his modernist designs. He is most renowned for designing the Ciudad Universitaria campus of the Central University of Venezuela, considered a masterpiece of modern city planning. Villanueva studied architecture in France and the United States before returning to Venezuela in to work for the Ministry of Public Works. Throughout his career, he designed many buildings in Caracas and other Venezuelan cities that incorporated modern styles and integrated artworks. The Ciudad Universitaria, completed from to , stands as his magnum opus and showcased his vision of synthesizing architecture, art, and urban planning.

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    Carlos Raúl Villanueva

    Venezuelan architect (–)

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Villanueva and the second or maternal family name is Astoul.

    Carlos Raúl Villanueva Astoul (May 30, – August 16, ) was a Venezuelanmodernistarchitect. 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. Among his works are El Silencio Redevelopment which included apartments and shop premises and the Ciudad Universitaria, the main campus of the Central University of Venezuela. The Campus was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the year

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    Villanueva was born in the city of London on May 30, He was the son of Carlos Antonio Villanueva and Paulina Astoul from a family originally from Valencia, Spain who had settled in Venezuela in the 18th century. His father was sent as an envoy from Venezuela to the Exposition Universelle of in Paris where he met Paulina Astoul and married her in A few years later, in , he was appointed Consul General of Venezuela in England by the government of Joaquín Crespo. Carlos Raúl was born four years later near the Venezuelan Consulate and was the youngest of the five children of the family. In the following years his family moved back to Paris, where he received his basic schooling at the Lycée Condorcet. Later on he moved with his family to Málaga, Spain, until when he returned to Paris. In , following the footsteps of his brother Marcel, Carlos Raúl was admitted to the Second Class of the Department of Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts and entered the workshop of Gabriel Héraud. In he entered the First Class of the Department of Architecture and worked closely with León Joseph Madeline. During that time he collaborated on a project for a Hôtel d'ambassade a construire dans un pays d'Extreme Orient with another student of