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ARQUITECTO LLUÍS DOMENÉCH I MONTANER

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LLUÍS DOMENECH I MONTANER BIOGRAPHYDied 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

THE FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TAPIES

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

FUNDACIÓ ANTONI TAPIES 1881 – 1885is 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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Roof and windows of the dining

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.

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.

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.

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

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 .

CASA LLEO MORERA

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

CASA LLEO MORERA stained glass Lluís Rigalt

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

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.

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

THE PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA the old entrance lobby

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

THE HOSPITAL DE SANT PAUThe 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. "

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

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

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

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

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.

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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