Pasaje de Maestros Ladrilleros

Turning from calle de Müller toward plaza de la Remonta, you cross this short passage dedicated to the master bricklayers: the craftsmen who mastered brick and mortar when that material was raising half the city. Through the nineteenth century, the masons who built the great houses of Chamberí and Salamanca came from all over Spain and settled on the outskirts. Many landed in Tetuán and Valdeacederas, and there, with their own trade, they built modest homes of exposed brick. The name arose with the remodelling of plaza de la Remonta, opened in 1987, whose design closed the perimeter with brick architecture in debt to those builders. In 1995 a Corten-steel figure reinterpreting Vitruvian Man was added to the passage. Barely twelve metres to name those who laid one brick upon another while others signed the plans.