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Casa Milà (Catalan: [ˈkazÉ™ miˈla], Spanish: [ˈkasa miˈla]), popularly known as La Pedrera (Catalan: [lÉ™ pəˈðɾeɾə], Spanish: [la peˈðɾeɾa]; "the stone quarry") in reference to its unconventional rough-hewn appearance, is a Modernista building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
[1] After five years of work and schooling, Gaudi qualified as an architect in 1878. As Elies Rogent signed Gaudí's degree he declared, "Qui sap si hem donat el diploma a un boig o a un geni. El temps ens ho dirà." ("Who knows if we have given this diploma to a nut or to a genius. Time will tell.") Gaudi immediately began to plan and design.
The Gaudí House Museum (Catalan: Casa Museu Gaudí; Spanish: Casa-Museo Gaudí), located within the Park Güell in Barcelona, is a historic home museum that houses a collection of furniture and objects designed by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. It was the residence of Gaudí for almost 20 years, from 1906 until the end of 1925.
In 1909 it received an award for the best building of the year from the Barcelona City Council. Casa Milà: Passeig de Gràcia, 92 : Antoni Gaudí: Casa Milà or " La Pedrera" is a building located at Passeig de Gràcia Avenue, built during the years 1905–1910. It is probably Gaudi's second most popular building in Barcelona.
Gaudí was born on 25 June 1852 in Riudoms or Reus [10] to coppersmith Francesc Gaudí i Serra (1813–1906) [11] and Antònia Cornet i Bertran (1819–1876). He was the youngest of five children, and far outlived the other two who survived to adulthood: Rosa (1844–1879) and Francesc (1851–1876).
In 1984, UNESCO granted World Heritage Site designations to three Gaudí buildings in Barcelona, though not yet including Sagrada Família, under the collective designation "Works of Antoni Gaudí – No 320 bis" (items 320-001 to 320-003), testifying "to Gaudí's exceptional creative contribution to the development of architecture and building ...