Antoni de Falguera
Antoni de Falguera i Sivilla - alternative spelling Antoni Falguera i Sivilla - (* 1876 in Barcelona, † 1947 in Barcelona) was a Catalan architect and first representative of the Modernist architecture of the later noucentisme.
The son of a prosperous notary studied as well as his brother Josep Maria de Falguera i Sivilla - with whom he later some works jointly designed - at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Barcelona, where he graduated in 1900. This was at that time a center of Catalan modernism and was under the influence of the ideas of Gaudí i Cornet, Puig i Cadafalch Domènech i Montaner and which belonged to the teachers Falgueras.
His first work was designed together with his brother textile factory Fàbrica Estruch in Palau- solità i Plegamans, at the same location followed in the next few years the city cemetery, City Hall and a non -preserved house ( all 1900-1910 ). During these years he built with the municipal cemetery in Sentmenat and Casa Sans in Tossa de Mar, with his appointment as assistant to the city building advice Pere Falqués i Urpí in 1906, the focus of his work shifted to Barcelona.
During the next few years mainly originated influenced by modernism houses, later followed by various school buildings and market halls ( the known input of the Ramblas is the Boqueria is his work ). After the death of City Commissioner of City Planning Pere Falqués i Urpí - with whom he previously the Casa de la Lactancia designed on the Gran Via Corts Catalanes de les - followed him Falgueres i Sivilla in this office. The following works - particularly the building of the Conservatorio Municipal de Música de Barcelona ( 1916) - were still influenced modernist, with the advent of noucentisme he increasingly turned to the preservation and reconstruction of medieval buildings, such as the Casa de la Ciutat in Barcelona (1929 ).
In addition, he wrote Contributions to a statement issued by Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Josep Casals i Goday monograph on the architecture of the Romanesque period in Catalonia Arquitectura ROMANICA a Catalunya (1909-1918) and the monographs Sant Pere de Roda (1906 ) and Els constructors de les obres romàniques a Catalunya ( The designers of Romanesque art in Catalonia ) ( 1907), former., with a preface by Puig i Cadafalch
During the Spanish Civil War, he was arrested by representatives of the FAI and removed from office.