Designed by Antoni Gaudí, completed in 1910 Barcelona, Spain Casa Milá, located at the corner of the Paseo de Gracia and the Calle Provenza in Barcelona, Spain, was designed and built between 1906 and 1910. It exemplifies the exuberant forms and distinctly personal architectural sensibility of Antoni Gaudí (1852– 1926), whose work influenced the development of Modernismo, the Catalan adaptation of Art Nouveau. Popularly known as “La Pedrera” (The Quarry), the large apartment building, commissioned by wealthy businessman Pedro Milá i Camps and his wife, Rosario Segimón Artells, received widespread critical attention for its massive, undulating facade and innovative architectural and structural details. Although Casa Milá has been described as a precursor of the Einstein Tower (1921) in Potsdam, designed by Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953), the explicitly organic references of Gaudí’s structure exhibit closer stylistic affinities to Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) than to the German Expressionism o...