1. ARQUITECTO LLUÍS DOMENÉCH
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2. LLUÍS DOMENECH I MONTANER
BIOGRAPHY
Died 12/21/1850 at age 73 on 27.12.1923
works noted for his modernist style built in
Catalan. He also devoted much of his life to
politics. Born in Barcelona and in his youth, he
showed his interest in architecture. He studied
architecture and later held a professorship at
the College of Architecture of Barcelona. In
this role exerted considerable influence on
how modernism was probably in Catalonia.
The role of Domenech i Montaner (1849-1923)
was essential to define the "modern
architecture" in Catalonia. His works are
characterized by a mix of constructive
rationalism and fabulous ornamentation
inspired by Moorish architecture and a taste
for drawing curved so characteristic of
modernism

3. THE FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TAPIES

4. FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TÀPIES the sculpture "Nuvola i Cadira" by Antoni Tapies

5. FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TAPIES
1881 – 1885
is a museum and cultural center. Is
mainly devoted to the life and work
of the painter Antoni Tapies. Built
between 1881 and 1885, the facade
of the building combines the use of
brick with iron. It was the first of its
kind to be built in the area and
served as headquarters of the
Editorial Montaner i Simon

6. FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TAPIES is located in the old store `L Editorial Montaner i Simon, the
shelves are still preserved

7. THE THREE DRAGONS CASTELL 1887 - 1888 built as Cafe, Restaurant of the Universal
Exposition 1888 by Lluís Doménech i Montaner, is considered one of the best examples of
modernism.

8. THE CASTELL DELS TRES DRAGONS Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1888. It was built
with red bricks. In the upper room highlights the use of sheet iron. The architect drank
from the fountains of the Catalan Gothic and Moorish, as well as decorative elements
Germanic and Almohads.

10. THE CASTELL DELS TRES DRAGONS in the life of the building, known as the Museum of
Zoology, the content is empty now moved to the Forum, pending the installation of new
activities

11. THE CASTELL DELS TRES DRAGONS Decor pottery made in collaboration with Antoni M.
Gallissà, Josep Llimona, J.A. Pellicer and Alexandre de Riquer, is located on the battlements
and shield-shaped panels of the top, breaking down in blue on white, a natural program of
plants and animals, including number of drinks and liquors

12. LAMADRID HOUSE 1888 - 1910 Lluis Domenech i Montaner. It is one of the few works in
which the architect had to adapt with little chance to shine. However, a facade composed
of rich ornamental

13. HOME LAMADRID individual balconies stand out especially on the main floor a semicircular

14. PALAU MONTANER 1889 - 1893 current headquarters of the Delegation of the Central
Government in Catalonia . The main floor is reflected in the facade, the large balcony that
emphasizes the run Composition. The upper floor, bounded by a sharp forward, presents a
collection polychrome mosaics alluding to issues related to the invention of printing and
the central part of the frieze a stone eagle.

15. PALAU MONTANER is an isolated building surrounded by gardens bordered by a wrought
iron railings. It was built in the manner of the old palatial villas

16. PALAU MONTANER all the top of the building is decorated with glazed tile large canvases
representing the invention of the printing press as a great frieze below the overhang, is an
eagle carved in stone that has his sides shields the date of termination building.

17. PALAU MONTANER The wall surrounding the estate and the metal gates and doors were
designed by Domenech i Estapà

18. PALAU MONTANER Hall and inside the imperial staircase sumptuously decorated with the
large main staircase with carved stone ornaments, designed by Gaspar Homar
cabinets, large windows Antoni Rigalt i Blanch and sculptures by Eusebi Arnau

21. Roof and windows of the dining

22. THOMAS HOUSE 1895 -
1898 Designed by Josep
Thomas custom industrial,
presents a neo-Gothic
façade with signs, originally
the building had a floor
dedicated to lithography
workshop and first floor,
where housing was the
owner.

23. THOMAS HOUSE This building
is part of the Catalan
Modernism route
commissioned by Josep
Thomas was allocated to
housing both as a
photoengraving . The
workshop area has kept its
reform stained glass and
ornate ceilings and many of
the elements of the old
printing, as the chimney. He
has also rediscovered the
original soil hydraulic
maintains the structure of the
old offices were made ​in
woodwork.

25. CASA - HOUSE LLEO MORERA Project
undertaken in 1902 by architect Lluis
Domenech i Montaner. The building won
the first prize of Architecture awarded by
the City Council in 1906. It houses one of
the most emblematic Paseo de Gracia in
the Quadrat d'Or called.

26. CASA LLEO MORERA Catalan is the interpretation of Art Nouveau, with curved balconies,
ornamental details nonfunctional

27. CASA LLEO MORERA It is believed
that the main reason is that the
house would Morera family trace
their lineage, with constant
references to his name
Morera, Art Nouveau
ornamentation typical of the
times their motives are inspired
by the curved lines and the nature
.

28. CASA LLEO MORERA

29. CASA LLEO MORERA the house of the architect Oscar Tusquets in the eighties, was
responsible for the restoration of the rest of the building, restoration of the pinnacles and
the sanctuary of the cornice at the top of the building, which had been severely damaged by
fire machine gun during the 1936 Spanish Civil War

30. CASA LLEO MORERA stained glass Lluís Rigalt

31. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA
CATALANA The facade is
constructed of red brick
seen and is decorated
with mosaics from Lluís
Bru, highlighting a group
of sculptures in tribute to
the work of the
prestigious Popular Song
sculptor Miquel Blay

32. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA
CATALANA concert hall 1908
designed by Lluis Domenech i
Montaner is a music auditorium.
This building houses the Orfeo
Català, Catalan this prestigious
institution has had since its founding
by Lluís Millet and Amadeu Vives, in
1891 an important role in defending
the values ​of the Catalan culture.
This is the reason that the
decoration of the building shows
multiple representations of them
scattered four bars (symbol of
Catalonia), which under Franco in
some cases were covered with
curtains.

34. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA Outside sculptural elements are mixed, making
reference to the world of music, architectural and decorative elements of Modernist and
barroquizante

36. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA the old entrance lobby

37. Double staircase to the first
floor with large lighting
lamps, the railing is richly
carved in stone and glass
balusters, the wainscoting
are glazed ceramic and
embossed with flowers as
the decoration of the
ceilings

38. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA columns decorated with mosaics are all different in
color and decoration, this room is also designed to celebrate social events or press
conferences

40. Within this room there is to highlight the front of the stage, all of it a sculpture representing
the Ride of the Valkyries on one side and a bust of Beethoven on the other, made by Pau
Gargallo and Dídac Massana. The back of the stage contains several high relief with mosaic
decoration Eusebi Arnau and Mario Maragliano

41. The representation of Catalan popular music in the sculpture to the left, with the bust of
Josep Anselm Clave under a big tree at the foot of which lies a group of singers. The
magnitude of this sculpture makes its top approaching almost to touch.

42. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA
The capacity of the concert hall is 2049
person auditorium acoustics is
unbeatable. The best performers and
conductors in the world of the last
century (from Richard Strauss Igor
Stravinsky and Arthur Rubinstein, Pablo
Casals and Frederic Mompou have
marched steadily by Palau, a true
sanctuary of Catalan music and concert
hall at the time of reference in the
panorama international artistic

43. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA
CATALANA Upon entering the
room, makes a great effect, with
the explosion of light and color
that has the great room, the
windows on both sides running
from floor to ceiling with the first
and second floor of seats as if
they were trays, columns
decorated with colorful ceramic
tiles and the ceiling with red
roses and white glazed pottery, at
the intersection of the upper
arches are seen in a semicircle
representing a mosaic tails of
peacocks in all their splendor and
colorful

44. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA like a great sun inverted sphere-shaped, golden
crystals in the center and surrounded by others with softer tones representing white and
blue female busts

45. THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA semicircle in the back of the stage, there are
eighteen muses modernist mosaic and relief from the waist that looks like they are
dancing off the walls, made ​the sculptor Eusebi Arnau upper and trencadís of Mario
Maragliano skirts and Luis Bru, are all carriers of different musical instruments, is installed
on them the organ.

46. HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU is a square of 300 by 300 meters. It consists of a main building on
the administration and 27 pavilions. All buildings are connected by underground tunnels
architect had several artists who worked with him on the project. The main ones were
Eusebi Arnau and Pau Gargallo who made the numerous sculptures of all, Francesc
Labarta, who designed the paintings and mosaics and Josep Perpignan, who took charge of
the wrought iron.

47. THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU was designed to provide all services within the same and thus
isolate the city. The design planned streets, gardens, buildings, water supply, a church and
a convent until

48. THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU in the main facade are four sculptures by Pau Gargallo
representing the three theological virtues (faith, hope and charity) plus a fourth, the work,
since Domenech i Montaner thought the man had to prove these three virtues through their
actions or works

49. THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU The main entrance is oriented forty-five degrees on the
eixample looking at the Sagrada Familia. It is believed that the reason for this orientation is
that Domenech i Montaner wanted to take the wind from the sea to air the hospital and
safeguard of diseases. Montaner is also believed that directs the entry of this way to break
the grid structure of the Eixample district.

50. The pavilion is built for access brick like most visible face of the whole. Domenech i
Montaner uses a variety of architectural styles in a masterly and very neat as can be seen
in the main hall where we find Gothic, neo-Gothic, Germanic Mozarabic and architectural
styles as the clock tower

52. Among highlights the main buildings of the administration, which is accessed by a wide
staircase. On both sides there are the rooms of the library and the secretariat

53. THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU Inside the main building is a structure of arches and columns
representing a garden of medicinal plants, and hospitals formerly cultivated these plants to
create their own medicine

56. THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU
The pavilions have left hospital and its
role is being rehabilitated this modernist
complex, which is the largest in Europe
and is planning to install organizations
and institutions like the UN high-level,
international foundations and think
tanks and research related to health,
culture and environment. "

57. THE SANT PAU HOSPITAL wards are also of great interest, especially since each is
different from others.

63. THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAU Another important feature is that the hospital was designed to
differentiate between men and women patients. On the right are the flags of the men who
are named after saints, and on the left the halls of women with names of saints or virgins

72. THE CASA FUSTER is a modernist building designed and created by between 1908 and
located in the 1910.Se Ps. De Gracia, next to the Avenida Diagonal

73. DOMENECH I MONTANER used in this house many of its characteristics as an architect: the
basis of robust red stone columns and floral decorations. The set, however, indicating
considerable expressive restraint, favored by the white marble

74. CASA FUSTER The two main facades arranged around a podium run that from the first
floor is machined as a tower to the building's crown, the back is, unusually, flat.

75. VIENNESE COFFEE HOUSE FUSTER (formerly
ballroom in the years 50) regained its peak as
famous historical place of intellectual
gatherings, which had gathered as
representative figures as the poet Salvador
Espriu.

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