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Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Josep Puig i Cadafalch (Mataró, 17 October 1867 – Barcelona, 21 December 1956) was a Catalan Modernisme architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona. He was the architect of the Casa Martí (also known 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.

Although Puig's style separated him significantly from his contemporary Gaudí, their relations were neither tense nor problematic, as demonstrated by the participation of both architects in the construction of the Cafe Torino. Another of his significant buildings was the Casa Terrades (also known as "les Punxes"), which is known for its medieval castle style from the north of Europe. From 1942 to his death in 1956, he was the president of the academic institution of the Catalan language, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

Main works

Andorra

Year	Name	Location	Description	Condition	Image
1940	Església de Sant Esteve	Andorra la Vella 42°30′26″N 01°31′18″E	Reconstruction of the upper floor of the tower and the old side door of the Romanesque church.	Ok

Argentona

Year	Name	Location	Description	Condition	Image
1897-1905	Casa Puig i Cadafalch	Plaça de Vendre s/n 41°33′17.17″N 2°24′01.17″E	Summer house of the architect made from the transformation from three buildings. With a labyrinthine interior and a style of medieval influence, and has a facade with modernisme architectural elements.	Regular
1897	Chapel del Sagrament	Plaça de l'Església 41°33′15″N 2°24′3″E	Expansion of the chapel del Sagrament of the Church of Sant Julià d'Argentona. The exterior of the chapel is decorated with gargoyles and an eaves tile modernists.	Very good
1898	Can Calopa	C. Riudemeia, 8 41°33′12.65″N 2°24′2.36″E	Reforms in an existing house. The wrought iron fence and brick, the facade made ​​of brick and a room decorated with modernisme elements mediated by Puig i Cadafalch.	Ok
1898	Casa Garí	Camí de Sant Miquel del Cros, 9 41°32′9.35″N 2°24′46.50″E	Manor house converted by Puig i Cadafalch to a noble palace, presenting all of the advanced aesthetic currents of the moment.	Very good

Barcelona

Year	Name	Location	Description	Condition	Image
1893	Joieria Macià	Carrer de Ferran, 18	Puig made the decoration of jewelry. Had a neoclassical decoration with Neomedieval sculptural details and brackets are Neoclassical.	Dissapeared
1896	Casa Martí	C. Montsió, 3 bis 41°33′12.65″N 2°24′2.36″E	The ground floor is the place Els Quatre Gats, meeting venue of the modernise artists.	Very good
1898	Casa	C. Boqueria, 12 41°22′53.46″N 2°10′27.48″E	Commissioned by the owner of the Casa Martí changed many times and use long housed the inn "Branch of the universe". Have a sgraffito façade topped with battlements. The forging is of Manuel Ballarin and the cover is flanked by two statues of Arnau. Now houses a hotel.	Very good
1898-1900	Casa Amatller	Passeig de Gràcia, 41 41°23′29.5″N 2°9′54″E	The chocolate industrial Antoni Amatller i Costa, became a building of 1875, he bought to move it, and commissioned works at Puig i Cadafalch, which opted to give the appearance urban gothic palace. Among the artists who were collaborating include Eusebi Arnau and Alfons Juyol responsibles of the sculpture, very important in the building.	Very good
1900	House-study of the photographers Napoleon	la Rambla, 18 41°22′40.6″N 2°10′34.3″E	Terraced building, of ground floor, main and three floors above designed by Francesc Rogent i Pedrosa, which preserves the facade of the three upper floors. In 1900 the photographers Napoleon commission reforms to locate their study.	Totally transformed to locate Frontó Colom in 1941.
1901	Casa Macaya	Passeig de Sant Joan, 108 41°23′59.37″N 2°10′09.96″E	Urban residence with white and graffiti facade with windows decorated with sculptures and capitals by Eusebi Arnau with themes very contemporary.	Very good
1901	Casa Muntadas	Av. Tibidabo, 48 41°24′55.46″N 2°7′59.23″E	Recreate the facade of a typical Catalan masia, decorated with floral framing doors and windows.	Very good
1902	Cafè Torino	Passeig de Gràcia, 18	Owned by the Turinan Flaminio Mezzalama, who sought to promote the Martini & Rossi vermouth, was inaugurated on September 20 of 1902 and that same year won an award from the City Council of Barcelona. The artists had decorated fashion as Ricard de Capmany i Roura and Antoni Gaudí that made ​​the Arab room. The furniture was Thonet, the decorative sculpture was by Massana i Buzzi, the fresco was by Saumell i Garcia and the locksmith by Ballarin. It closed around 1910-1911.	Dissapeared
1902	Hotel Terminus	Carrer Aragó, 282	Hotel located in the train station of Aragó-Passeig de Gràcia. It was a building of the rose time, very floral on the outside with a wavy capcir own of the Baroque masias.	Dissapeared in the 60's.
1903	Casa Serra	Rambla de Catalunya, 126 41°23′41.16″N 2°09′25.86″E	The facade was built in stone and beautifully decorated, matched to the Plateresque style, and is work by Eusebi Arnau.	Very good
1903	Casa Mercè Pastor de Cruïlles	Ctra. Vallvidrera a Tibidabo 102-104 41°25′26.6″N 2°07′8.56″E	The Torre Pastor, single-family and study, commissioned by Mercedes Pastor, is composed in the manner of the Catalan manor houses of the 15th century, from a solid body, covered hipped, with eaves and a large angular tower. Highlights the placement of blocks in opus spicatum. He is currently a religious residence of Salesian community.	Regular
1904	Casa Eustaqui Polo	Passeig de Sant Gervasi, 55-57 (originally was num. 149)	t was commissioned by Eustaqui Polo i Ortigosa, father of the writer Xavier Polo i Ribas. It was a modernist building with extensive gardens that was sold in 1956 to then be demolished to build three blocks of flats.	Demolished in 1956
1904	Casa Trinxet	Carrer Còrsega, 268	It was commissioned by Avel·lí Trinxet i Casas, a textile industrial uncle of the artist Joaquim Mir who decorated the rooms with mural paintings. With a clear influence of Secession, was part of the white time of Puig and was considered the work which began the transition to Noucentism. Despite heavy opposition to its demolition, the council Porcioles allowed his disappearance at the hands of real estate Nuñez i Navarro in March 1967.	Demolished in 1967
1904	Pantheon Terrades		No documentation.	?
1904-1906	Palau del Baró de Quadras	Av. Diagonal, 373 41°23′47.92″N 2°9′41.09″E	The Baron of Quadras commissioned Puig i Cadafalch in 1900 to build their new house in Barcelona after finishing his palace in Massanes. The building is now the seat of Casa Asia.	Very good
1905	Casa Terrades Casa de les Punxes	Av. Diagonal, 416-420 41°23′52.5″N 2°9′49.26″E	Apartment building structured on three scales commissioned by Àngela Brutau, widow of Terrades -client's farm Seva and pantheon of Terrades-, to reach her ​​three daughters and that allows them to live of rent. It is a building of "medieval" look which, it says, Puig could have been inspired by the building that appears at the bottom of the table of the Mare de Déu dels Consellers.	Very good
1905	Farmàcia Sastre i Marquès	C. Hospital, 109	The property was demolished to open the Rambla del Raval. Some decorative elements such as a lamp, mosaics and some stained glass were recovered before its demolition.	Dissapeared
1905	Casa Sastre i Marqués	C. Cardenal Vives i Tutó, 29-35 41°23′40.39″N 2°7′16.9″E	Private house framed in white period. The architect combined brick with sgraffito and tile glaze. It should be noted a roundabout at the corner of the garden.	Recently restored.
1909	Casa Llorach	C. Muntaner, 265	Commissioned by Concepció Dolsa, widow of Llorach. It had a large garden overlooking the street of Muntaner with a fence building of smooth undulations. The building, of Alpine inspiration, had some amazing graffiti on the main façade.	Dissapeared
1910	Casa Àngels Macià i Monserdà	C. Anglí		?
1911	Casa Pere Company	C. Buenos Aires, 56-58 41°23′35.29″N 2°8′54.0″E	Corresponds to the white time and has a Nordic touch. Purchased in the 40's by Dr. Melcior Colet, was restored in 1986 by Joan Bassegoda i Nonell to host the Museum of Sports of Catalonia.	Very good
1911	Fàbrica Casaramona	Av. Marquès de Comillas,6-8 41°22′16.79″N 2°8′59.1″E	The Casaramona Factory is a project by architect Puig i Cadafalch commissioned by Casimir Casaramona i Puigcercós, owner of textile business, to build a new factory at the foot of Montjuïc, to replace one earlier destroyed by a fire. Currently houses the CaixaForum.	Very good
1913	Casa Joaquim Carreras "Santa Margarita"	C. Sant Pere Claver	Neoclassical building, very geometric, with large gardens and walkways with pergolas to save the unevenness of the terrain through stairways and balconies with balusteres.	Dissapeared
1914	Casa Miele	C. Ferran 2 and la Rambla 41°22′49.2″N 2°10′27.36″E	The Casa Miele, that sold domestic objects made ​​of metal called precisely "Miele silver", a German invention of great international success and not just imitate the qualities of real silver but improved. Due to installing this luxurious and popular store, the architect Puig i Cadafalch did a total reform of the house which won an honorable mention in the Annual competition of artistic buildings. Currently the building has been transformed, but it shows his hand on some items that have survived: fragments of the railings on the ground floor, decoration of the balconies and rearrangement of the windows.	Transformed
1914	Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya	Pl. Sant Jaume, 4 41°22′58″N 2°10′36″E	The establishment of the Commonwealth of Catalonia resulted in the recovery of the Palau de la Generalitat as a symbol of Catalanism. Enric Prat de la Riba commissioned to Puig i Cadafalch the rehabilitation and removal of Spanish or monarchic signs. The work allowed to place the National Library of Catalonia within the palace.	Ok
1914	Casa Muley Afid	Pg. Bonanova, 55 41°24′12.67″N 2°7′44.5″E	Built by order of Muley Afid, Sultan Moroccan exile in Barcelona, ​​is a building with a certain eastern touch. It currently houses the Consulate of Mexico.	Very good
1917	Casa Puig i Cadafalch	C. de Provença, 231 41°23′35.55″N 2°9′33.5″E	It was his private house and where he died in 1956. It is a sober building, of his yellow time, in which Puig gives for completion the Gothic palace and center-european villa, seeking a more urban and repeatable housing of households.	Very good
1918	Restaurant of the Font del Gat	Parc de Montjuïc 41°22′4.17″N 2°9′27.6″E	He rebuilt the development work in the area of the font del Gat (fountain of the cat) designed by Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier in the development plan of the Montjuic mountain and joined the restaurant. For years has not the role of restaurant, and currently hosts the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Federation of Tennis.	Ok
1920	Casa Carreras	C. Montsió, 5 41°23′08.80″N 2°10′25.6″E	It can not be stressed that this is only the reform of an existing building. The facade of the passage there are two panels of painted tiles. One with St. Joachim on the portal of No. 4 and, on the edge of Montsió, another with St. Eloi of excellent modernisme drawing under stone niche very ornate.	Very good
1919	The Four Columns	Pl. Cascades, s/n	The Ionic four columns were a monument to the Catalanism, that represented the four vertical red bars of the Catalan flag and was also tied to the idea of ​​progress represented by the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. They were demolished by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera which sought to remove any symbol of Catalan identity in the eyes of the world. However, thanks to the popular initiative in December 2010 were returned to raise a one less meter of tall at the same place where they were stationed in the beginning. Currently these are a symbol of perseverance, conviction and strength of language, culture and Catalan national identity.	Very good. Demolished in 1928. Lifted in December 2010
1920	Palaus d'Alfons XIII i de Victòria Eugènia Fira de Barcelona	Pl. Cascades, s/n 41°22′13.70″N 2°9′7.8″E	These are the only two palaces by Puig of the built complex for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. Between them, to the front of the avenue and shaping the square, were was the Four Columns.	Ok
1921	Casa Pich i Pon	Plaça de Catalunya, 9 41°23′15.19″N 2°10′07.16″E	It is a reform of a original building of Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas dedicated to offices, except the top floor which was home of the owner.	Ok
1922	Casa Luis Guarro	Via Laietana, 37 41°23′9.23″N 2°10′33.84″E	Office building and terraced homes of Noucentisme style that, besides the traditional elements of the neoclassical style, also has some neo-Baroque elements such as the thick columns or garlands of flowers and fruits of the frontispiece. Is part of the yellow time. It was commissioned by the paper industrialist Lluís Guarro.	Regular
1924	Casa Casaramona	Passeig de Gracia, 48-52 41°23′30.82″N 2°9′56.64″E	House built by order of Casimir Casarramona, who had already commissioned his factory (Fàbrica Casaramona), years before. It is a restoration of an existing building that already incorporates a little of modernisme style, similar to the Casa Guarro in Via Laietana and clearly located to his yellow period.	Ok
1928	Casa Rosa Alemany	Av. República Argentina, 6 41°24′26.38″N 2°8′54.84″E	Also attributed to Lluís Planas, is an apartment building, of ground and six floors of Noucentisme style. The composition of the façade plays around the location of windows and balconies that are different in each floor. On the door is a statue of Diana. It was considered a sign of the highest modernity of the time and had the main floor located on the top floor, unlike the location in the main. It was commissioned by the political Joan Pich i Pon.	Ok

Canet de Mar

Year	Name	Location	Description	Condition	Image
1898	Restaurant of the Hermitage of la Misericòrdia	Parc de la Misericòrdia 41°35′49.6″N 2°34′55.15″E	Storey building with typical structure of Puig i Cadafalch with neo-Gothic windows similar to Els Quatre Gats and a lookout tower typical in the modernisme towers. The decor of shades in blue tiles.	Ok
1899	Fàbrica Carbonell Susagna	Riera Lledoners, 111 41°35′33.56″N 2°34′57″E	The knitting factory was originally in 1899. Joan Carbonell Reverter, son of Joan Carbonell continued the business and changed the name to Carbonell Reverter. It was designed in 1897-98 and began production called Carbonell Susagna and was promoted by industrials Frederic Susagna and Joan Carbonell Paloma. The master builders were Martí Isern and Joan Solà. Remains just the form of entry, of brick.	Degraded

Esplugues de Llobregat

Year	Name	Location	Description	Condition	Image
1904	Pantheon Garí	Parish Cemetery 41°22′45.26″N 2°05′01.24″E	Cadafalch build it for the family Garí (those of Casa Garí of Argentona) in the area of pantheons of ​​the parish cemetery of Esplugues de Llobregat. It consists of a pedestal with a cylindrical column which there is a wrought iron cross with Christ at the foot of the column that has representations of animals such as snake or toad.	Regular

la Garriga

Year	Name	Location	Description	Condition	Image
1902	Casa Furriols	C. Carrerada, 1 41°40′52.9″N 2°17′22.96″E	House of two floors and lofts with two covered waters. In very simple structure, highlights the delicate sgrafitto s of the main facade. The fence on the street is decorated with the same tiles that would use in the Casa Carreras.	Ok

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