Josep Maria Jujol is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Josep Maria Jujol as Spanish architect (1879–1949).
Josep Maria Jujol was born at Tarragona in 1879. His recorded nationality is Spain.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as farmer, professor and architect.
His work is associated with catalan modernism.
His best-known building is Casa Batlló. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Spain shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Josep Maria Jujol died in 1949, aged 70. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Casa Batlló
- Movement: Catalan modernism
