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Architectures of modernist Barcelona

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Since the collapse of the walls in 1858 next to the medieval city of Barcelona, ??the Eixample (of Cerdà) is created. If we add the economic rise of the bourgeoisie and the desire to turn Barcelona into a modern and cosmopolitan city it results in the impressive development of architecture and the construction industry, which will culminate at the end of the century with the emergence of modernist architecture. But this spectacular progress will not be free of speculation and the clear division of neighborhoods according to social classes, in 1897 with the Decree of aggregations. So decisive is the Pla Cerdà, that in 1871 the School of Architecture of Barcelona is founded. Previously lessons were given at the Llotja, but it will require the readjustment of the studing of architecture in Barcelona, ??as it was only possible in Madrid. Rogent Elias will be its first director and chooses as a model the French Ecole Polytechnique. So, with a strong technical background and a deep theoretical study this school will form an entire generation of architects in this modernist city. The first generation of modernists architects are from 1875, Domenech i Montaner, Josep Vilaseca i Gaudí. Their works are defined as being medieval and eclectic. Proof of this lies in the Universal Exhibition of 1888 in the Ciutadella. That was the starting point of the first modernist examples, based on a traditional and autonomous language . After the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1898, there arises, in Catalonia, the second modernism wave, which influenced by trends in the French capital, adopt a more international and cosmopolitan language. We are... read more