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Josep Puig i Cadafalch was born in Mataró on 17 of October 1867 and was one of the most important architects of Catalan Modernism. Disciple of Lluís Domènech i Montaner, he is considered the last representative of this style and the first of Noucentisme.
He studied architecture and exact sciences in Barcelona, an era in which he entered in the Centre Escolar Catalanista and formed part of the group Renaixença. Later on, he returned to his hometown, where he assumed the charge of municipal architecture when he was only 24 years of age and constructed his first buildings in Mataró, a city essentially industrial in that epoch.
In 1981, he returned to the capital city, finalising his architectural studies and was named professor of Escuela de Arquitectura de Barcelona (School of Architecture of Barcelona). Apart from his professional activity, he participated actively in politics in the Catalan field. In this area, he substituted, in 1917, Enric Prat de la Riba as President of the Mancomunitat of Catalonia. During his charge, he developed an ambitious plan of teaching and of culture and he impulsed the archeological excavation of Ampurias.
According to Alexandre Cirici-Pellicer, his work can be divided in three stages very different:
- The first, the Modernist, that took as a symbol the house "pairal" Catalan aristocratic and the buildings that it belongs to like Casa Amatller (Amatller House) or above all, the Casa de les Punxes (Punxes House).
- The second corresponds to the tastes of the new bourgeois elite, practical and ordered. This era corresponds to the Casa Trinxet or the Casa Company, amongst others.
- The third period is Monumentalist and was developed during the period of the International Exposition of Barcelona in 1929, of which he was the first architect. The main characteristics of this era are the façades of yellow and the imitation of the Roman architecture.
Following his great admiration of Northern American architecture, he designed the Casa Pich inspired from the American Louis Henry Sullivan.
Puig also developed an enormous activity as art historian and wrote a fundamental piece "L'arquitectura romànica a Catalunya" (The Roman Architecture in Catalonia), amongst others and numerous titles. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he had to exile to Paris and, when he regressed, the new regime did not permit him to continue with his work as architect, and had to limit himself to rehabilitation of buildings. In 1942 he was named president of Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Students), a charge that he exercised until his death on 23 of December in 1956 in Barcelona.
Works:
In Barcelona:
Casa Amatller
Casa Company
Casa Macaya
Casa Martí (Els quatre gats – ´the four cats´)
Casa Muley-Afid
Casa Muntades
Casa de les Punxes
Casa Sastre Marquès
Casa Serra
Fàbrica Casaramona
Palau Baró de Quadras
Torre Pastor de Cruïlles
In Argentona:
Casa Garí
Casa Puig i Cadafalch
In La Garriga:
Casa Furriols
In Lloret:
Cruz de término
Ermita Verge de Gracia
Panteón Costa (Cementary)
In Mataró:
Ayuntamiento (City Council)
Casa Coll i Regàs
Casa Parera
Casa Sisternes
El Rengle
La Beneficiència
In Sant Sadurní d'Anoia:
Cavas Codorniu
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