“Who knows if we have given this diploma to a nut or to a genius? Time will tell.”Įven then his professors did not quite know what to make of his work, and when he was awarded the title of architect in 1878, Elies Rogent, the director of the school, declared: “Who knows if we have given this diploma to a nut or to a genius? Time will tell.” After enduring a childhood troubled by rheumatism, the son of two coppersmiths travelled to the Catalan capital to enrol as an student at the Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura, where he duly studied from 1873 to 1877. The collection also includes furniture, sculptures, paintings, drawings and other objects of Gaudí coworkers that are exhibited in several rooms of the museum.Ĭoordinates: 41☂4′49″N 2☀9′08″E / 41.413550°N 2.152162☎ / 41.413550 2.152162Ĭoordinates: 41☂4′49″N 2☀9′08″E / 41.413550°N 2.152162☎ / 41.413550 2.The 20th century’s most famous architect was born in Reus (or just outside, depending on what account you believe) in the Tarragona province of Catalonia, 80km south of Barcelona. They also host a great exhibition of furniture designed by Gaudí for buildings such as Casa Batlló, Casa Calvet, Casa Milà, Casa Vicens or the Colònia Güell’s crypt, that alongside with the wrought iron elements also designed by the architect - exhibited in the garden- are the most valuable objects of the collection. The basement is not open to the public and the second floor houses the Enric Casanelles Library, which can be accessed with prior permission.Īs for the collection, some rooms, such as the bedroom, the study or the inner door, as well as some personal Gaudí belongings, evoke memories of when the architect lived in this house. The ground and first floors are dedicated to the collection opened to the public. In 1992 the house was donated to the Construction Board of La Sagrada Família Foundation. Josep Maria Garrut had been its chairman since the museum opened to the public until his death in 2008. Three years later, it opened as Gaudí House-Museum. In 1960 the Friends of Gaudí association started a campaign so as to purchase the house to the Chiappo Arietti’s descendants in order to convert it into a museum. In his will, the architect donated the house to the Foundation Board of La Sagrada Família, which sold it to the Chiappo Arietti couple. Since then, Gaudí lived there alone until the end of 1925, when, a few months before his death in 1926, moved to the workshop of the Sagrada Família Basilica. His father died that very same year, and his niece in 1912. In 1906, Gaudí bought the house and lived there with his father and niece. It was on sale but it attracted no purchasers. The model property, designed by architect Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, built by contractor Josep Casanovas i Pardo and signed by Gaudí himself, was built between 19.

These houses were added to the old house, that already existed in the place and whose owner was Eusebi Güell himself. Only two of the houses envisaged were finally built: doctor Trias i Domènech’s House and what is nowadays Gaudí House-Museum which had to serve as a lure for potential land-buyers. In 1914 the works were stopped and the project was not completed. He commissioned the project, which envisaged the construction of sixty houses with garden and all the services necessary, to Antoni Gaudí. On 28 September 1963 it was opened as a museum and nowadays houses a collection of furniture and objects designed by the architect.Īt the end of the 19th century, Catalan industrialist Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi, after a stay in England, returned to Barcelona with the intention to build a garden city for the Catalan bourgeoisie, on the grounds of the property Can Muntaner de Dalt, which he had acquired in 1899. Gaudí House-Museum (in Catalan: Casa Museu Gaudí), located within the Park Güell in Barcelona was the residence of Antoni Gaudí for almost 20 years, from 1906 till the end of 1925.

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