Housing in Spain - Houses in Spain, Casa Mila, Palau Guell, Cortijo Jurado, Casa de Los Botines, Casa de Murillo (Paperback)

Chapters: Houses in Spain, Casa Mila, Palau Guell, Cortijo Jurado, Casa de Los Botines, Casa de Murillo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Casa Mila at dusk Casa Mila roof architecture Casa Mila atrium at duskCasa Mila, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi and built during the years 19051910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gracia (passeig is Catalan for promenade) in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was built for the married couple, Rosario Segimon and Pere Mila. Rosario Segimon was the wealthy widow of Jose Guardiola, an Indiano, a term applied locally to the Catalans returning from the American colonies with tremendous wealth. Her second husband, Pere Mila, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in "the widows guardiola" (piggy bank), than in "Guardiolas widow." The design by Gaudi was not followed in some aspects. The local government objected to some aspects of the project, fined the owners for many infractions of building codes, ordered the demolition of aspects exceeding the height standard for the city, and refused to approve the installation of a huge sculpture atop the buildingdescribed as "the Virgin"but said by Gijs van Hensbergen in his biography of Gaudi, to represent the primeval earth goddess, Gaia. Casa Mila was in poor condition in the early 1980s. It had been painted a dreary brown and many of its interior color schemes had been abandoned or allowed to deteriorate, but it has since been restored and m...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1325