1901 Casa Golferichs - Barcelona Spain
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N 41° 22.843 E 002° 09.377
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1901 Casa Golferichs - Barcelona Spain
Waymark Code: WM178HP
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 01/02/2023
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Casa Golferichs in Barcelona Spain was built in 1901 and has an interesting history.
El xalet: modernisme reinvented
Macari Golferichs, a civil engineer who made a fortune importing exotic woods from America, commissioned the architect Joan Rubió to build his family residence. El xalet, which dates from 1901, incorporates innovative construction techniques with typically Modernista materials.
From chalet to libertarian university
Anarchists took over the Golferichs family home in 1936 and set up a popular university there, a sign of things to come: today’s Golferichs’ chalet is one of the most active civic centres in the Eixample district, with a very full programme of courses, workshops, talks and exhibitions – pure culture. When the war was over, the house passed into the hands of a religious order that set up a school there until it was bought, at the end of the 1960s, by a construction that planned to knock it down and build a block of flats. However, the reaction of the residents was so strong, even going as far as occupying the place, that the City Council reclaimed ownership of the building, refurbished it and set up a civic centre in 1989: a little paradise at the heart of the Esquerra de l’Eixample neighbourhood. (
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