166:. In 1931 he was a professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He helped prevent some anti-monarchist groups from destroying the royal statues on the Plaza de Oriente, but was a strong supporter of the Republic and a member of the intellectual and artistic circles of Madrid. He continued to be very active as an architect.
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helped transfer the great masterpieces of the Madrid museums to
Valencia, where they avoided being destroyed by Franco's artillery and bombers. They also helped design bomb shelters in the Cuatro Caminos and Pacífico neighborhoods of Madrid. In 1937 Martí and the architect Luis Lacasa attended the
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Housing Congress in Moscow. After his return he was invited to designed the International Pavilion of the Spanish Republic in Paris but chose to stay in Madrid and continue designing shelters. When the war ended Martí and Luis Lacasa fled to France on foot. He was imprisoned at the
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was closed so that Vías y Obras could undertake various enlargements under the direction of Martí. The two blocks of rooms were each given a second floor, and a French-style garden was laid out in the area between them. New rooms were added to the main building. Other additions included a large
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in 1939 he fled to France, where he was interned for two months, then made his way to Paris and on to exile in Mexico. He resumed his career as an architect in Mexico, but gradually abandoned architecture in favour of painting. He chose not to exhibit his work and was little known until he was
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In 1929 Martí collaborated with Miguel García-Lomas
Somoano on the Edificio Vita office building in the University District of Madrid. In 1930 he again collaborated with García-Lomas on the 8-story Viviendas Castaño, a collective housing building in the Goya barrio of the
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García Lomas proposed Martí as architect for the Madrid City
Council. In this position he realized the first tall houses on the Goya and O'Donnell streets, but his most outstanding work was the plans for a group of low-cost house in
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and other cities. Martí organized the company with the
Valencian architect Enrique Segarra, Arturo Sáenz de la Calzada and the civil engineer Carlos Gaos. He also collaborated with other exiled architects including
173:(1936–39) Martí worked for the Ministry of Education in defense of national artistic treasures, and for the Popular Army in construction of bomb shelters. The director of the Defense Board was his close friend
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convention hall, a bowling alley and cafeteria, a walkway around the
Olympic pool, two more pools and sandy areas to give a beach-like atmosphere. The effect was much like the Hotel Mocambo.
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Martí's first work in Mexico was with SERE (Servicio de
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of Madrid. The building covers the area within the acute angle where Alcalá meets
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