Antoni Gaudí | Casa Vicens

15/07/2021

3 key elements of your visit to Casa Vicens

We all enjoy interesting facts, and although much has been said and written about the great genius of Catalan architecture, Antoni Gaudí, today we enter the first house he created, with three key ideas to look out for during your visit to Gaudí’s first great work: Casa Vicens. The house where nature becomes architecture Casa … Read more

21/06/2021

Casa Vicens Gaudí will be available for one night on Airbnb

For the first time, exceptionally, the house-museum will make it possible for two travellers to stay in the first house created by Gaudí Since it opened its doors as a house-museum in November 2017, Casa Vicens has become a space open to the public and the world, allowing anyone who visits it to discover the … Read more

07/05/2021

Casa Vicens Gaudí obtains the Biosphere certification for its commitment to tourism sustainability

Gaudí’s first house demonstrates its commitment to the city’s tourism sustainability Today, Gaudí’s first house obtained the Barcelona Biosphere Commitment to Sustainable Tourism certificate (CSTBB) in an online ceremony broadcast from the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce. The event included speeches by Xavier Marcé, Barcelona City Council Councillor for Tourism and Creative Industries; Abigail Garrido, Deputy … Read more

23/02/2021

Casa Vicens Gaudí received 49,376 visitors in its third year open to the public

48% of visitors to this World Heritage Site came from the province of Barcelona This World Heritage site in the Gràcia district opened only 195 days in 2020, 46% less than in 2019, and it nevertheless had about 50,000 visitors (compared to 163,096 in 2019). The house-museum’s director, Emili Masferrer i Fons, gives a very … Read more

01/08/2018

Gaudí in Gràcia: collaborations with Aleix Clapés

Casa Vicens is the first house that Antoni Gaudí built in the city of Barcelona, specifically in the Vila de Gràcia. A few years after the Gràcia’s annexation into Barcelona, Antoni Gaudí carried out another project in Gràcia, a lesser-known work by the architect but one which is especially interesting from the point of view … Read more

04/06/2018

The restoration work on Casa Vicens named as a finalist for the 2018 FAD Awards

José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres and David García, members of the architectural team in charge of restoring Casa Vicens, have been named as finalists for 2018 FAD Awards, now in its 60th year, for their work on Gaudí’s first house. According to the jury, “the architects have proposed a comprehensive and very detailed restoration … Read more

10/05/2018

The mysteries of water in Gaudí’s work (II)

[Continuation of the post entitled “The mysteries of water in Gaudí’s work (I)”] Apart from the fountain, another element directly related to the water is the exposed brick waterfall, formed by a catenary arch that was located in the garden. Above the arch, there were two rows of thin brick pillars crowned by a capital … Read more

19/04/2018

The mysteries of water in Gaudí’s work (I)

In addition to the well-known inspiration and influence of plants[1] in Gaudí’s work, another element that we find at Casa Vicens and in some of his other projects is water. Without going into any further detail, the channeling and reuse of water that we find at Park Güell is a very good example of this. … Read more

25/03/2018

Nature made into architecture

“When I went to take the measurements of the site, it was totally covered with some yellow flowers, which I used as an ornamental theme for the ceramic. I also found an exuberant palmetto palm, whose leaves fill the grid of the gate of the house.» With these words, Joan Bergós, a disciple and great … Read more

13/02/2018

Gaudí and his concept of the house

‘The house is the small family nation. The family, like the nation, has history, foreign relations, changes of government, and so on. The independent family has its own house, that which is not, has a rented house. The owned house is the native country, the rental house is the land of emigration; this is why … Read more