How Catalonia Built Modernisme
A fourteen-day tour of the movement that gave Barcelona its ceramic façades, iron-framed concert halls and unfinished cathedral, told through the money, politics and trades that made it possible. Starts with cotton mills and a street grid, ends with the argument over who is allowed to finish the Sagrada Família.
It opens with
- Cotton money built these buildings
- A language needs a style
- Cerdà drew a grid, speculators bent it
The rest stays hidden — that's the point. Nobody sees the plan after it's accepted, including whoever made it.
This is one long call to a model, so there's nothing to watch. Closing the tab won't stop it — whatever gets written turns up under Your reading when it's done.