Casa Vicens was Gaudí’s first house and first architectural work. He finished his studies in 1878 and began the project in 1883. The house was completed in 1885 and was later declared a UNESCO ...

When we lived around the corner from Gaudí’s Casa Milà (La Pedrera) in the 1970s, it was sad to see its surreally sinuous facade in such dire need of a good scrub. The only queues were into ...

Architect Antoni Gaudí's very first architectural commission was designed in 1885 as a luxury retreat for a local family, and it’s been in private hands ever since. But this fall, for the first ...

The Casa Vicens estate was the first project for which Gaudí started developing his signature style. In the fall, it will open as a public museum. The buildings of 19th-century Catalan architect ...

On a quiet street in Barcelona’s Gràcia district, Casa Vicens has long been an off-radar landmark. The first major project by Catalonian modernist Antonio Gaudí, it attracts curious looks from the ...

Most notably, Easter 2017 marks the first-ever public opening of Gaudí’s Casa Vicens, dubbed “the house where it all began”.Already, it’s estimated that 500 people a day spend more than ...

But still, it is an approximation. Less than 15 years after its completion, Vicens sold his custom-made summer home, and in 1925 its new owner, Antoni Jover, converted the one-family house into a ...

The interiors of Casa Vicens have been painstakingly restored (Casa Vicens) In the meantime, here’s a run-down of the finest facades and interiors by the master of Catalan modernism. Palau Guell ...

The Restoration of Casa Vicens, Antoni Gaudí’s Hidden Gem Next year, an early masterwork by the Catalan architect opens to the public for the first time—and the banking scion running it has ...

The Casa Vicens, located on 24 Carolines Street, was the first house ever designed by Antoni Gaudí. In 1883 Manel Vicens, promoter of the project, commissioned the architect to build what would ...