BRIEF HISTORY OF LOMAS DEL MARBELLA CLUB PUEBLO

In the 70s, William Genske from the United Stated and in love with Andalusia, signed at the notary Don Luis Oliver, buying land in Lomas del Marbella Club, near the hotel founded by Prince Alfonso de Hohenlohe. The idea was the realization of the traditional Andalusia village architecture to mainly British buyers who at the time tourism in the Costa del Sol came mainly from this country.

To achieve this goal, he first engaged the services of Donald Gray, Australian architect who lives on the Granada coast and scholar of architecture of this land, as well as Morocco. He has recently been awarded the Architecture Prize (Rafael Manzano), for projects conducted both in Marbella and other areas of Andalusia.

At the same time he created a technical team comprising of Emilio Fajardo as manager and Alfonso Roca as Technical Architect. Thus in 1978 the first house today known as Casa Gardener at the entrance of the village where the sale office served as a pilot-house was built. One feature that differentiates it from other promotions on the Costa del Sol, has been its completion development, since from the beginning not an urban planning scheduled for two or three years of conceived, but was developed, ie depending on the needs of population growth. That is why the last of the final 90 homes, built in 1993, being created during that time the layout of its streets and public areas that make it so natural that some think it is not a construction in recent years.

Throughout all this time there have been many purchases of these homes existing today from many different nationalities.

In 2015, Donald Gray received the prize Rafael Manzano Martos of Classical Architecture and restoration of monuments, for a professional life dedicated to give continuity to the Spanish architectural traditions.

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