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Encyclopedia > Josep Puig i Cadafalch
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Josep Puig i Cadafalch (October 15, 1867 - December 21, 1956) was a modernistic Catalan architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3072x2048, 2433 KB) Summary Casa de les Punxes Author: User:Yearofthedragon Note: Architect:Josep Puig i Cadafalch City:Barcelona Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Josep... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3072x2048, 2433 KB) Summary Casa de les Punxes Author: User:Yearofthedragon Note: Architect:Josep Puig i Cadafalch City:Barcelona Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Josep... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x3072, 3369 KB) Summary Palau del Baró de Quadras Monumento BOE 17-2-1976 Author: User:Yearofthedragon Note: Architect:Josep Puig i Cadafalch City:Barcelona Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x3072, 3369 KB) Summary Palau del Baró de Quadras Monumento BOE 17-2-1976 Author: User:Yearofthedragon Note: Architect:Josep Puig i Cadafalch City:Barcelona Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Catalan,Spanish,Aranese Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 6th  32 114 km²  6,3% Population  â€“ Total (2005)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 2nd  6 995 206  15,9%  217,82/km² GDP Total (2004) GDP: €157,124 billion GDP per /capita: $26,550 (4nd) Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Catalan... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, a nation in the Iberian Peninsula, which is part of the spanish state. ...


He was the architect of "la Casa Marti" (also know as "Els Quatre Gats") which became a place of ideas, projects and social gatherings for such well-known Catalans as Santiago Rusiñol and Ramon Casas. Santiago Rusiñol (1861 - 1931) was a Spanish Catalan post-impressionist/Decadent painter, author, and playwright. ... Ramon Casas i Carbó (4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan / Spanish artist. ...


Although the style of Puig separated him significantly from his contemporary architect Gaudí, their relations were neither tense nor problematic. It is demonstrated by the participation of both architects in the construction of the Cafe Torino. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect of the Modernisme (Art Nouveau) movement famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs. ...


Another one of his significant buildings was the Casa Terrades (also known as "les Punxes"), which is know for its medieval castle style from the north of Europe.


From 1942 to his death in December 1956 in Barcelona, he was the President of the Catalan language academy "Institut d'estudis catalans". This article is about the year. ... Catalan (Català IPA: ) also called Valencian (Valencià IPA: ) is a Romance language, the only official language of Andorra and co-official in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia. ...


Works

  • Casa Macaya (Barcelona)
  • Casa Amatller (Barcelona; Pg. de Gràcia, 41)
  • Casa Company (Barcelona)
  • Casa Serra (Barcelona)
  • Casa Martí (Barcelona)
  • Casa Muley-Afid (Barcelona)
  • Casa Muntades (Barcelona)
  • Casa de les Punxes/Casta Tarrades (Barcelona;Av. Diagonal, 416-420) (1903 - 1905)
  • Casa Sastre Marquès (Barcelona)
  • Fàbrica Casaramona (Barcelona)
  • Palau Baró de Quadras (Barcelona; Av. Diagonal, 373 i Rosselló, 279) (1904 - 1906)
  • Torre Pastor de Cruïlles (Barcelona)
  • Casa Garí (Argentona)
  • Casa Puig i Cadafalch (Argentona)
  • Casa Furriols (La Garriga)
  • Ajuntament (Mataró)
  • Casa Coll i Regàs (Mataró)
  • Casa Parera (Mataró)
  • Casa Sisternes (Mataró)
  • El Rengle (Mataró)
  • La Beneficiència (Mataró)
  • Caves Codorniu (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia)
  • La telegrafia (El Prat de Llobregat)

External links

  • Barcelona Architecture Chronology of catalan architecture and biographies of catalan architects, from the gothic master builders to contemporary architecture, including Josep Puig i Cadafalch

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Gaudí and Modernisme (1676 words)
There follow two buildings of a modernised Louis XV type, by Enric Sagnier, and the neo-Gothic Amatller house, with ornamentation of polychrome tiles, by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, followed by the Batlló house, with a mosaic façade and a tiled roof, by Antoni Gaudí.
Architect, art historian and politician, Josep Puig i Cadafalch (Mataró, 1867) studied architecture (1883) and exact sciences in Barcelona and gained his doctorate in Madrid in 1888.
During the Puig i Cadafalch Year various events have been organised in order to foster the greater knowledge and maximum dissemination of the architectural, artistic and cultural elements related with his life.
Josep Puig i Cadafalch at AllExperts (249 words)
Josep Puig i Cadafalch (October 15, 1867 - December 21, 1956) was a modernistic Catalan architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona.
Although the style of Puig separated him significantly from his contemporary architect Gaudí, their relations were neither tense nor problematic.
It is demonstrated by the participation of both architects in the construction of the Cafe Torino.
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