THE COMPENDARIUM / 01
Architecture is a history of connections.
Discover the people, places and movements behind the built world. Follow the ideas that travel from one building to the next.
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Each entry connects to others, so the collection grows richer with every new article.
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Alvar Aalto
Finnish architect and designer whose modernism engaged with materials, landscape and human experience.
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Antoni Gaudí
The Catalan architect whose expressive buildings became central to Barcelona's architectural identity.
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Art Nouveau
A late-nineteenth-century international movement connecting architecture, decoration, craft and new materials.
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Barcelona Pavilion
The German Pavilion of 1929, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich and reconstructed in 1986.
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A Barcelona residence transformed by Antoni Gaudí into an integrated architectural composition.
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A cultural and architectural movement that reshaped Barcelona around the turn of the twentieth century.
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