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(b Barcelona, Nov 25, 1913; d Barcelona, Nov 5, 1984). Spanish Catalan architect. He belonged to the second generation of Modernists that flourished after World War II, students of the masters of the Modern Movement, but also their first critics. He was a member of Team Ten and is considered one of the masters of Catalan architecture. He graduated as an architect in 1940, just after the end of the Spanish Civil War; his earliest work was therefore executed in an era of autarchy in which nationalism predominated. In architecture, popular traditionalism interpreted in a rather folkloric manner predominated. Coderch rejected this interpretation, however, extracting the rationalist element from popular tradition and overlaying it with his knowledge of first-generation Modernist architecture. The Casa Garriga–Nogués (1947) in Sitges, Barcelona, is the finest example of this first period, followed by the Casa Ugalde (1951) in Caldetes, Barcelona, in the design of which Coderch adopted a more personal, expressionistic approach....