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Rubió i Bellver, Joan
Document Type
Reference Entry
Author
Source
Oxford Art Online, 2003
Subject
Spanish
Catalan
Language
English
Abstract
(b Reus, 1871; d Barcelona, 1952). Spanish Catalan architect. He graduated from the Escuela de Arquitectura, Barcelona, in 1892. He worked with Antoni Gaudí as pupil and collaborator until 1905, particularly on the Sagrada Familia, the Parc Güell (1900–14) and on the alterations to Palma Cathedral in Mallorca (1904–14). He was one of the most important codifiers of Gaudí’s architectural and constructional ideas, thus facilitating the movement that came to be known as Gaudinismo. He regarded Gaudí’s design and structural discoveries as the solution to the problems raised by 19th-century eclecticism. For Rubió, church buildings were the testing-ground for the monumental synthesis required of architecture, and in this field Gaudí and his disciples showed how far the Gothic style could be taken. Rubió’s own buildings in Barcelona include Macario Golferichs’s houses (1901) in the Gran Via, Isabel Pomar’s house (1904–6) in the Carrer Gerona, the Frare Blanc (...