{"id":5380,"date":"2018-01-16T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/ledifici\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:54:26","slug":"the-building","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museutapies.org\/en\/the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"The Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Llu\u00eds Bover. \u00a9 Museu T\u00e0pies<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Museu T\u00e0pies opened its doors as Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies in June 1990 in the building of the former Editorial Montaner y Sim\u00f3n publishing house, the work of the Modernist architect Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Restored and refurbished by the architects Roser Amad\u00f3 and Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech Girbau. Constructed between 1880 and 1881 or 1882, at an early stage of the evolution of Catalan Modernism, the building was the first in the Eixample<\/strong> district to integrate industrial typology and technology, combining exposed brick and iron, into the fabric of the city centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Montaner y Sim\u00f3n publishing house along with Antoni Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Casa Vicens, is one of the few remaining examples of a way of building that has now been lost, also exemplifies the passing of an eclectic architectural style popular in the 19th century and the emergence of a new style, Art Nouveau, or Catalan Modernism<\/strong>. Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner and Antoni Gaud\u00ed established the architectural bases defining two different forms of development: Gaud\u00ed embodied an “expressionist” current, whilst Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner was more inclined towards rationalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner drew up the plans for the Montaner y Sim\u00f3n publishing house in 1879. The building embodies many of his concerns about architecture, which he did not see as an autonomous element, but as linked to a given social and historic context. He set out these views in an article published in the magazine La Renaixensa<\/em> in 1878, entitled “En busca de una arquitectura nacional” (“Looking for a national architecture”). In it, more than reaching definitive conclusions or providing specific answers, he posed for the first time a series of questions about the need for a national architecture that was also, at the same time, an expression of the concerns of the new modern age.<\/p>\n

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The Museu T\u00e0pies\u2019 building is \u201chemmed in\u201d between the two side walls of the adjacent buildings. To elevate its height and underscore its new identity, Antoni T\u00e0pies created the sculpture crowning the building entitled N\u00favol i cadira (Cloud and Chair, 1990)<\/strong><\/em>. This sculpture represents a chair jutting out of a large cloud. The chair, a recurring motif in T\u00e0pies\u2019 works, alludes to a meditative attitude and to aesthetic contemplation.<\/p>\n

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