October 3, 2025 8 min read
By: Ferran Garcés In a 1920 photo, with the Sagrada Familia in the background, we see two friends walking. One of them is Lluís Milet, composer of music, and the other, next to him, Antoni Gaudí, hiding his face with his hat. Actually, that day two snapshots were taken. In…
September 28, 2025 8 min read
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August 28, 2025 9 min read
By Ferran Garcés The well-known novel by Eduardo Mendoza, The City of Marvels, takes place between 1888 and 1929, the years of the two universal exhibitions…
August 22, 2025 10 min read
By Ferran Garcés Last Friday, we looked at the houses where Gaudí spent his childhood and adolescence (see: Reus and Riudoms). Today we’ll search for…
August 15, 2025 5 min read
By Ferran Garcés Gaudí wrote very little, but when he was still an architecture student, he described his ideal home in a short manuscript (see:…
August 7, 2025 6 min read
By Ferran Garcés On August 10, 1870, that is, exactly one hundred and fifty-five years ago today, a young Gaudí wrote: “Ornamentation, in order to…
August 1, 2025 6 min read
By Ferran Garcés Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, architecture was not only “Modernist.” In parallel, another style developed that is still awaiting…
July 18, 2025 10 min read
By Ferran Garcés What was happening in the rest of the world while Gaudí was building Torre Bellesguard, between 1900 and 1909? Today we propose…