Antoni Rovira i Trias

Antoni Rovira i Trias (born 27 ( ) March 1816 in Gràcia (now a part of Barcelona );? † May 2, 1889 in Barcelona) was a Catalan architect and city planner of historicism. He is one of the most important pioneers of Modernism in Barcelona.

Biographical information

Antoni Rovira's father was a carpenter and builder Antoni Rovira i Riera. His mother Gertrudis triad came from a dealer and business family, her father was in the colonies had become rich producer Narcis Triassic.

Antoni Rovira was born in May 1816 in Gràcia, then still a suburb of Barcelona, ​​and baptized on May 27. Early age of 16 he was a builder. At the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona, he completed his basic studies and then decided to just set up study of road construction engineer at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, but that he soon abandoned in favor of the architecture. First minor works by him are known from his time in the military, which he completed in 1939. His title as an architect, he received on March 30, 1842 at the Academia de San Fernando.

Very early Antoni Rovira had actively participated in the establishment of various associations. One of these, the Societat Filomàtica de Barcelona, ​​founded in 1839 by a handful of intellectuals and politicians who gathered regularly at his home, among them the writer Francesc Pi i Margall, later President of the First Spanish Republic. The aim of the association was the intellectual development of its members. 1860 united the club with the Ateneu Català, and in 1872, the Casino Mercantil Barcelonès, whereby the Ateneu Barcelonès arose.

He was involved in the founding of the Sociedad de Seguros Mutuos contra Incendios, a private fire brigade union with municipal support, built in 1835, and has been involved as an expert and architect intensively on the development of this association. He wrote several essays and instructions for extinguishing fires. Later, out of the club was the town fire department of Barcelona.

From April 1846 to March 1847 he was, together with Josep Oriol Miquel Garriga i Roca Bernadet and the Boletin de Nobles Artes Enciclopédico ( Encyclopedic Journal of the noble arts ) out, which dealt primarily with the theories of contemporary architects.

1853 opened the renovated and expanded by Antoni Rovira Teatre Circ Barcelonès. In Súria 1853 was a school, and in 1854 in Manresa, a Caritas House. 1956 was followed by the conversion of the Palau Moja, Barcelona.

In 1859 Rovira won from 13 submissions to the competition of the city of Barcelona for the expansion of the city ( Eixample). His project saw a ring road around the old town and a radial urban development before, with harmonious integration of existing suburban communities. He could not realize his design, however: The Madrid central government ignored the competition result and decided to Pla Cerdà by Ildefonso Cerdà, which still determines the basic layout of urban expansion of Barcelona. However, Antoni Rovira could modify later in some points of detail the urban planning of Cerdà in his senses.

In 1867 Antoni Rovira city architect of Barcelona, ​​Gràcia, Sant Martí de Provençals. He was also head of buildings and ornament the city of Barcelona ( 1872 ), Advisor to the City of Manresa, City Council, parliamentarians, honorary colonel of the municipal fire department and an honorary citizen of Barcelona.

1862 built Rovira 's Bell Tower in Gràcia, 1870 was followed by another theater, the Teatro Español on Passeig de Gràcia, built in Neo - Mudejar style. From 1873 he was responsible for the construction of several market halls that gave significant impetus to the development of Modernist architecture of Barcelona with its new iron and glass constructions ( Mercat de la Barceloneta 1873, Mercat del Born (?) 1873 Mercat de Sant Antoni 1879, the Mercat de la concepció 1885 Mercat d' Hostafrancs (?) 1888).

After two smaller works in 1876, a monument to peace, as well as the Fountain of the Three Graces on the Plaça Reial, of there soon after significant competition received by the famous lampposts of the young Antoni Gaudí, followed from 1878 to 1882 the neoclassical Museum Martorell for Geology in the Parc de la Ciudatella, one of its largest buildings. 1880-1883 Town Hall was built in Igualada,

From Rovira i Rabassa marriage to Magdalena Barenys had two sons: Antoni Rovira i Rabassa, the architect was also, as well as the lawyer Ricard Rovira i Rabassa.

Antoni Rovira i Trias died on May 2, 1889 age 73 of a cerebral hemorrhage. The fire department of Barcelona organized a solemn honor funeral for him.

1922, the former Plaça Rovira was in Gràcia, Barcelona, ​​renamed in his honor in Plaça Rovira i Trias. Today it sits on one of the stone benches, a bronze statue of the architect.

Works

His most important works in Barcelona:

  • Teatre Circ Barcelonès (1853, 1863 and burned down in 1869 by Josep Fontserè rebuilt )
  • Palau Moja: remodeling and construction of a loggia ( 1856)
  • Bell Tower in Gràcia, Plaça Rius i Taulet (1862 )
  • Pasaje del Comerç ( 1865-66, planning a new stretch of road )
  • Pla del Poblenou (planning the space conditioning, 1867)
  • Teatro Español, Passeig de Gràcia (1870, 1898 re-opened after a fire in 1900 closed)
  • Mercat de la Barceloneta ( Market Hall, 1873)
  • Mercat del Born (?) (1873, designed by Josep Fontserè )
  • Monument a la Pau ( Monument for Peace, 1876)
  • Font de les Tres Gràcies ( Fountain of the Three Graces ) on Plaça Reial (1876 )
  • Martorell Museum of Geology at the Parc de la Ciudatella (1878-1882)
  • Mercat de Sant Antoni (1879 )
  • Slaughterhouse of Barcelona ( 1880-88 )
  • Balustrades on Passeig de Colom (1883 )
  • Mercat de la concepció (1885 )
  • Balustrades in Salò de Sant Joan (1887 )
  • Mercat d' Hostafrancs (?) (1888 )

Outside of Barcelona:

  • Schools in Súria (1853 )
  • Casa de beneficencia in Manresa (Caritas House, 1854)
  • Hall of Igualada (1880-1883)
  • Improvement of air in Montcada (1881 )

Gallery

Hall of Igualada

Mercat d' Hostafrancs

Mercat del Born

Mercat de Sant Antoni

Font de les Tres Gràcies

Museu Martorell

Teatro Español, Passeig de Gràcia

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