Located in the Gracia district, Vicens House is a splendid and interesting building designed by the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí between 1883 and 1885. It is framed within the so-called Orientalist Period (1883-1888), when this great architect was inspired by Near Eastern architecture.
With a strong Neo-Mudéjar inspiration, Gaudí carried out the construction by projecting a design that, for the first time, used elements that would later be common within his modernist style. However, at the time, they had a tremendous impact on society due to their originality.
At the time, it was a much more ambitious project that included large gardens within an architectural ensemble. However, it was subdivided and sold, leaving only the house and its surrounding space. To take advantage of the reduced space, Gaudí designed three facades with the house attached to the dividing wall of the adjoining building. In the 1920s, one of Gaudí's disciples, Joan Baptista Serra, carried out an extension to the house following Gaudí's original style.
The splendid design of the building included a large number of rich details typical of Hispanic Islamic art with a strong Nasrid and Mudejar influence, including ceramic tiles, mitral arches, domed or temple-shaped finials and exposed brick cartouches.
The innovative style, the exuberant beauty of the architectural complex and the great patrimonial and artistic value of this work made it worthy of the declaration of Asset of Cultural Interest in 1993 and the important recognition of World Heritage in 2005.
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