Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Lluís Domènech i Montaner is one of the essential names in our country. A key figure in Catalan Modernism, he is the author of emblematic buildings such as the Palau de la Música or the Hospital de la Santa Creu i de Sant Pau, declared World Heritage. His great-grandson, also the architect Lluís Domènech Girbau, reveals to us the person who hides behind the figure of his ancestor. Domènech i Montaner's best-known article, "In search of a national architecture", gives us many clues, which indicates where his thinking was going. The author of the book resumes this title in each chapter and dives into family history, in search of the most specific traits of his great-grandfather.A biographical portrait where two lives intersect, that of the biographer and that of the biographed, separated by a century of great political complexity and exciting architecture. And, at the same time, a story full of personal and family anecdotes, and coincidences in the field of architecture and political ideology.