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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Casa Vicens, the first private house Gaudí designed, has been vacated by the builders a little more quickly. Following a two-and-a-half year restoration project, it opened to the public this ...