Alfredo Jones Brown

Alfredo Jones Brown (Montevideo, 1876 - 1950) was a Uruguayan architect.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Jones and the second or maternal family name is Brown.

His father, Enrique Agustín Jones de Elía, was of British descent; and his mother, Natividad Brown Blanco, was a granddaughter of admiral William Brown.

He graduated as an architect at the University of the Republic.

Notable works

• Edificio Rex
• Instituto Alfredo Vásquez Acevedo
• Escuela Alemania

Literature

• Lucchini, Aurelio (1969). Ideas y formas en la arquitectura nacional. Colección Nuestra Tierra (in Spanish). 6. Montevideo.
• Lucchini, Aurelio (1986). El Concepto de Arquitectura y su traducción a formas en el territorio que hoy pertenece a Uruguay (in Spanish). Montevideo: Universidad de la República.

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