Gaudí Completes the Casa Milá Apartment House In Barcelona
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Arts, Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Spanish/Portuguese History
- Geographical Location: Spain
- Date: 1910
Article abstract: With a design totally modern yet free of eclecticism, Antonio Gaudí established a controversial prototype for regional architecture.
Summary of Event
The completion of the Casa Milá apartment house in 1910 was for Antonio Gaudí the logical culmination of a career that had started when he was a boy in the provincial town of Reus, south of Barcelona, where he was born. Gaudí knew even then that he wanted to be an architect and viewed his chosen profession almost as a religious calling. He would be the consummate architect:...
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