Isidre Puig Boada was a
CatalanCatalonia is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,364,078. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the...
architect born in
BarcelonaBarcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...
in 1890, who belonged to the small and select group of architects that were connected to
Antoni GaudíAntoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet – in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí...
and collaborated with him on his works. He first met Gaudí in 1914 when he was still a student. When Gaudí died in 1926, he was working on the
Sagrada FamíliaThe Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026...
with Domènech Sugrañes. In 1950, Boada was assigned director of this construction.
In 1929, Boada published
El temple de la Sagrada Família, and in 1976
L'església de la Colònia Güell.
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Isidre Puig Boada was a
CatalanCatalonia is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,364,078. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the...
architect born in
BarcelonaBarcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...
in 1890, who belonged to the small and select group of architects that were connected to
Antoni GaudíAntoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet – in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, Antonio Gaudí...
and collaborated with him on his works. He first met Gaudí in 1914 when he was still a student. When Gaudí died in 1926, he was working on the
Sagrada FamíliaThe Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic church that has been under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026...
with Domènech Sugrañes. In 1950, Boada was assigned director of this construction.
In 1929, Boada published
El temple de la Sagrada Família, and in 1976
L'església de la Colònia Güell. In 1981, at the age of 90, he presented
Gaudí's thoughts, a collection of several articles on Gaudi's works. Besides architecture, this work also acquaints the reader with Gaudi's political and social thoughts.
External links
- Barcelona Architecture Chronology of Catalan architecture and biographies of Catalan architects, from the gothic master builders to contemporary architecture, including Isidre Puig i Boada