Wofford hosts talk on 'Gaudi and His Contemporaries'
October 3, 2011
SPARTANBURG, SC – October 5, 2011 – A professor with an international study abroad program will lecture Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Wofford College on Gaudi and His Contemporaries: Art and Architecture in Barcelona c. 1900. The program, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 8 p.m. in Leonard Auditorium in Main Building.
Professor Magda Bernaus, who is resident director of the architecture and design program for the CIEE Program (Council on International Educational Exchange), a study abroad exchange program, will be the speaker.
Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century was an artistic center of great importance. Starting in the 1860s, the capital of Catalonia underwent an impressive physical transformation, and the construction of a whole new city – L’Eixample – provided architects of this era with many important commissions.
The current Barcelona is, to a large extent, the consequence of these circumstances: Antoni Gaudἰ, Lluἰs Domènech i Montaner, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch all lived and worked around 1900 and their artistic vision shaped the image of the city, which remains still today a museum of Modernista architecture.
For more information, contact Peter Schmunk at [email protected].
