Architecture | Casa Vicens

26/03/2021

Casa Vicens Gaudí launches a program of virtual guided tours

· “Gaudí’s First House” is the first virtual guided tour that can already be enjoyed on the Casa Vicens website The cultural sector continues to be one of the economic areas most affected by the COVID-19 crisis, due to the paralysis of the tourism sector as well as health and mobility restrictions. In the face … 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

22/12/2020

The Christmas star at Casa Vicens Gaudí

· A showcase from Stay Homas will get the Christmas season going at Casa Vicens! · From 24th December to 5th January, Gaudí’s first house will welcome two artistic installations Christmas comes to Casa Vicens this year, joined by the incomparable masters of ceremony, Stay Homas, the group that became a sensation during confinement. They … Read more

17/12/2019

Nature, taking centre stage this Christmas at Casa Vicens Gaudí

Last year, Christmas at Gaudí’s first house centred around the different table decorations in the dining room on the season’s three most important nights: Christmas, New Year’s Eve and the arrival of the Three Kings. This Christmas, it is nature that takes centre stage at Casa Vicens. We wanted to pay tribute to the idea … Read more

25/06/2019

Water is running again in the fountain at Casa Vicens

· Water was a key element in the design of the first house by Antoni Gaudí. Originally, the architect conceived a waterfall in front of the main façade, a fountain in the entrance and a fountain on the covered porch. · The laborious efforts to restore the water system of the covered porch’s fountain regales … Read more

06/08/2018

Middle Eastern-Style Architecture in Gràcia

In the mid-19th century, the city of Barcelona was deeply interested in Middle Eastern culture. This taste for the Middle East coincided with a moment when the city was expanding and its new bourgeois class was gaining strength. This was reflected in the construction of new buildings with an eclectic style where the Arabic architecture … 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

09/07/2018

Photographing Gaudí’s first house

Photography Workshop in Casa Vicens, by Pol Viladoms (24/07/2018) “Vision is synthetic. Life is appreciated through vision.” Antoni Gaudí In this workshop, participants will get to know the basic principles of architectural photography, learn to value the different actors involved, what type of equipment is appropriate, which phone applications can help us, etc. In … 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