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Antoni Falguera i Sivilla, known as a Catalan architect, was born in Barcelona on 1876 and developed his career between modernism and noucentisme periods.
Son of a notary, he studied architecture together with his brother, who he collaborated with in some pieces. He graduated from the School of Architecture of
Antoni Gaudí in 1900, absorbing influences of the modernism school, in particular from
Antoni Gaudí,
Josep Puig i Cadafalch and
Lluís Domènech i Montaner, of who he was a pupil.
His family had a rural house in Palau de Plegamans and from there he started working for the City Coundil of Sentmenat, in 1905, and also in Castellar del Vallés and Tossa de Mar. Years later he started working for the City Council of Barcelona, as architect assistant of
Pere Falqués i Urpí and, in 1916, he was nominated a municipal architect. From this charge he constructed his most emblematic buildings: The Municipal School of Music (1916 - 1927) and the House of the Lactation (1907-1914).
With occurring of the noucentisme Falguera he changed his activity to the restoration of medieval buildings. Inside this facet, his most important work was the reshaping of the House of the City of Barcelona, in 1929.
In the history of art field, he emphasises his collaboration in the 'Romanesque Architecture to Catalunya' (1909-1918) book, along with Puig i Cadafalch and Josep Goday i Casals, and in solitary the Monograph on Sant Pere of Roda (1906), prefaced by Puig i Cadafalch. Also only he wrote 'Els constructors of you should work romàniques Catalunya' (1907).
He passed in Barcelona in 1947.