October 10, 2025 10 min read
By: Ferran Garcés Gaudí built Torre Bellesguard between 1900 and 1909. Last Friday they saw a selection of portraits of the architect in the previous years and during its realization (see: the first portraits) In this period, it had gone from forty to fifty years. Today we will see the…
August 7, 2026 4 min read
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September 5, 2025 4 min read
By Ferran Garcés September is the month of the grape harvest. The regions fill with activities related to viticulture to celebrate the beginning of the…
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…