BARCELONA/ A GUIDE TO ITS MODERN ARCHITECTURE

This guide brings together the most interesting and important examples of modern and current architecture in Barcelona. It covers th e emergence of Modernisme and Noucentisme, creative periods for which Barcelona is known the world over, the emblematic German Pavil ion by Mies van der Rohe (1929), rationalist works conceived from the 1940s and 50s, large housing projects of the 70s, the Olympic architecture of the late eighties, post-Olympic architecture, and examples of the ongoing urban redefinition from the nineties.