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This iconic 1934 apartment block was once home to emigré Bauhaus masters, Agatha Christie, Soviet spies, and more. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, and on the last Friday of each month. https://isokongallery.org/

Isokon Gallery

Caaa Vicens in Barcelona, Gaudí’s first major commission, and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. On a visit with iconichouses.org. Exquisite details, beautifully restored.

Magnus Englund, Isokon Gallery director, with Anja Guttenberger of www.bauhausfaces.com at the Isokon archive. Anja will be giving a talk on Ise Gropius the wife of Walter Gropius, on 1 October at the Isokon Gallery. Watch out for our events and follow us on www.eventbrite.com/o/10598755560

Casa Bloc. The first modernist social housing apartments in Barcelona, built 1932-1936 (Josep Lluís Sert, Josep Torres Clavé and Joan Baptista Subirana). Severely disrupted during and after the Civil War, but now again used as originally intended. A visit with www.iconichouses.org/houses/casa-...

Visited the Cases Barates in Barcelona with iconichouses.org. These affordable houses were built in 1929. Now replaced by modern apartments, some have been preserved as part of the Barcelona History Museum. To learn more abut them, check out this free book www.iconichouses.org/doc/books/CA...

Les Escales Park apartments in Barcelona, visited with iconichouses.net. Designed by Josep M. Sert while in exile in the US, and built in 1973. Corbusier influenced duplex units, with a modernist interpretation of the Catalan vault.

On a visit to the extraordinary, sprawling former home and studio of sculptor Xavier Corberó with www.iconichouses.org/news/the-wor.... He moved there in 1968 and was still adding to it when he died in 2017. Currently undergoing restoration, it will become a cultural space open to the public.

Visit to Casa Rovira, a seaside villa near Barcelona, with iconichouses.org. A holiday villa designed by José Antonio Coderch, completed in 1969 and little changed since then, it is now available for photoshoots as well as for holiday accommodation. coderchcasarovira.com/en/

In a Barcelona suburb on a visit with iconichouses.org to Walden 7. Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, inaugurated in 1975. Conceived as a stacked vertical community, and built on the site of a former cement factory.

The rigorously rationalist former HQ of Gustavo Gili Publishers (Francesc Bassó and Joaquim Gili, 1954-61). Currently hosting displays for Barcelona World Capital of Architecture, it will become House of Architecture of Barcelona managed by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. An iconichouses.org visit

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Visited Mas Miró, Joan Miró’s farmhouse and studio near Barcelona, where he spent his summers, with www.iconichouses.org/houses/mas-m.... A fascinating look at the things he collected, and his art.

Isokon Gallery