One of the best parts about visiting Barcelona was the opportunity to admire all the flamboyant Modernisma architecture. In the early 1900s, four of the movement's leading architects designed family houses on a single block, where they look like they're struggling to outdo one another (hence the nickname "Block of Discord"). The architects involved are Lluis Domenechi Montaner, Antoni Gaudi, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and Enric Sagnier, and here are their crazy funhouses:
From the top:
1. Facade of Gaudi's Casa Batllo
2. Facade of Cadafalch's Casa Amatller
3. Gaudi's Casa Batllo
4. Gaudi's Casa Batllo
5. Cadafalch's Casa Amatller
6. Gaudi
7. Gaudi
8. Montaner's Casa Lleo-Morera. And yes, you're reading that correctly in the picture: Casa Lleo-Morera is indeed now a Guess retail store. Yikes.
Note: Enric Sagnier's Casa Mulleras was under construction and behind scaffolding when I visited Barcelona, so no pics. Sorry. :(
From the top:
1. Facade of Gaudi's Casa Batllo
2. Facade of Cadafalch's Casa Amatller
3. Gaudi's Casa Batllo
4. Gaudi's Casa Batllo
5. Cadafalch's Casa Amatller
6. Gaudi
7. Gaudi
8. Montaner's Casa Lleo-Morera. And yes, you're reading that correctly in the picture: Casa Lleo-Morera is indeed now a Guess retail store. Yikes.
Note: Enric Sagnier's Casa Mulleras was under construction and behind scaffolding when I visited Barcelona, so no pics. Sorry. :(
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