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Born
-Born and Raised in Barcelona Region
-Called the town of Mataró home
-Strong Catalan Identity -
Casa Sisternes
-Considered the very first work of the architect
-He worked only on the facade of this building
-Built in his hometown of Mataró
-His personal style begins to develop strongly -
Finishes Studies
-Attended the Provincial School of Architecture of Barcelona
-Recognized by Montaner for his studies at time of graduation General Career Information:
-Adopts and Develops the Catalan Modernist Style
-Gaudi Montaner are contempraries, not competition
-Most work is found in Barcelona, with some around Catalonia -
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Catalan Modernist Period
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Municipal Architect of Mataró
-Cadafalch serves as the municipal architect of his hometown
-Just outside the city of Barcelona
-Intervenes in projects but does not design any of his own -
Casa Martí
-Neo-gothic style
-Built for the Marti i Puig family
-Featured on the national registry of Catalan heritage
-Hub for BCN Bohemian art and Modernist groups -
Casa Coll i Regàs
-Catalan Modernist style
-Symbolism, plant motifs, movement, asymetry
-Built for Joaquim Coll i Regàs
-Materials: Brick, Iron, Ceramic
-Precedent for Casa Amatller
-First true representation of his personal style -
Palau Macaya
-Example of Catalan Modernism
-Built for Macaya i Gibert (industrialist glass collector)
-Served as the first home of the 'La Caixa' Foundation Cultural Center
-Works to disseminate knowledge in the social sciences
-Designed in tandem with Casa Amatller (similariies are evident) -
Casa Amatller
-Located on the Block of Discord in Passeig De Gracia
-Built for Antoni Amatller (a chocolate industrialist)
-Blends gothic influence with Catalan Modernism
-Considered an icon and prime example of the Catalan Modernism style
-Uses modern building techniques (look at window placement) -
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Barcelona City Counsel
Serves as Barcelona City Counselor -
Casa De Les Punxes
-Built for Bartomeu Terradas Brutau
-His 3 daughters lived in the house
-In Catalan, punxes=spikes
-Design challenge was to design 3 unique houses for each daughter all in one
-a house inspired by a medieval castle resulted
-each facade is different and ornemented towards each daughter -
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Rational Idealism Period
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Casa Trinxet
-Built for Avelino Trinxet Casas (textile industrialist)
-Single family detatched house
-Facade is symmetrical, building has rational form
-Demolished to build larger milti-unit residences (zoning laws changed)
-Passeig De Gracia developed similar to 5th ave, Manhattan -
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Spanish Parliament
Serves as a member of the Spanish Parliament -
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Vice president of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
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Professor
Served as professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture specializing in strength of materials -
Casa Pich i Pon
-Built for Juan Pich i Pon
-Ediface is more rigid than past work
-Inspired by some American architecture
-Placa Catalunya
-Catalan Baroque Style -
Fabrica Casarmona
-Built as a factory for a cotton industrialist
-Building designed around internal function and efficiencies
-system of internal streets results in a horizontal composition
-Rigid, uniform facade
-Home of the "La Caixa" Foundation today -
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Serves as the Lead Architect of the Barcelona World's Fair
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President of the Commonwealth of Catalonia
-Ambitious plans for education and promotion of Catalan culture
-Promotes archeologial excavations of Roman sites in Catalonia
-Influences development of new roads -
Quatre Columnes
-Erected as a ymbol of Catalan Nationalism
-Symbolizes the red stripes in the Catalan flag
-Built for the 1929 World fair
-Destroyed in 1928 by Dictator Primo de Rivera
-Cadafalch is vocal opponent of dictator
-May have exasperated destruction of catalan architecture
-Rebuilt in 2010 -
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Monumentalist Period
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Los palacios de Alfonso XIII y Victoria Eugenia
-Built for th International Exhibition
-Named after the then kings of Spain
-Catalan Baroque style
-Mix of styles -
First Exile
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Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Dictarorship
-Nationalist
-Did not have the same strong oposition as Franco -
Placa España
-Developed for International Exhibition
-Largest square in Spain after the Plaza de España in Madrid
-important transit hub in city
-Intersection of major roads and metro lines
-Baroque style colonade erected around part of circle
-More monumental styles and scales in plaza -
Second exile
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Spanish Civil War
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Return to Catalonia
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Serves as the president of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
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Dies
arch work potentally outshined/deminished by political history