SAGNIER & THE MODERNISTES

This is not just another book about Modernista architects, rather it provides the context in which the profession of architecture was practiced during the Modernista period by Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia and four other architects who were practicing at the same time. It sheds new light on the subject and includes new material, such as a chronologyof these architects’ major works, a graphological study of their characters and an account by Lluís Permanyer, of their professional activities. There was a national and international dimension to their work, although it was concentrated mainly in Barcelona for half a century, where it has become one of the main tourist attractions of a city that has taken pains to conserve this heritage although, it should be said, many of these works no longer exist. A selection of contemporary photographs of the buildings and their surroundings shows how the architecture has developed since then to the present day.