{"id":3820,"date":"2025-04-29T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editorial.arquitecturacatalana.cat\/rutes\/loblidada-arquitectura-historicista-daugust-font-a-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:40:37","slug":"loblidada-arquitectura-historicista-daugust-font-a-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"rutes","link":"https:\/\/editorial.arquitecturacatalana.cat\/en\/rutes\/loblidada-arquitectura-historicista-daugust-font-a-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten historicist architecture of August Font"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The architectural historicism and eclecticism of the 19th century have long been rejected and viewed negatively. Perhaps due to ignorance or the overwhelming success of Catalan Art Nouveau, these artistic movements and their architects have been overshadowed. Despised and undervalued, many of their buildings have been mutilated or destroyed without hesitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arquitecturacatalana.cat\/en\/authors\/august-font-carreras\">August Font<\/a><\/strong> was one such architect. Historicist and eclectic, he left his most emblematic works in Barcelona, although he also worked in Sabadell, Vilafranca del Pened\u00e8s, Solsona and Tortosa, among other places. Font twice won the City Council Award for the best building in the city and was a professor at the Escola d&#8217;Arquitectura de Barcelona for thirty years. His role in the Association of Architects of Catalonia was also noteworthy, as he served as its president in 1906 and 1907.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite his importance and success during his lifetime, and the range of work he produced \u2014very diverse in terms of clients, styles and typologies\u2014 his fame waned after his death, and with the emergence of Catalan Art Nouveau, he fell into complete silence and almost oblivion. Of all the buildings he constructed in the city of Barcelona, only one bears a plaque with his name: the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arquitecturacatalana.cat\/en\/works\/sucursal-de-la-caixa-de-barcelona\">branch he designed for the Caixa d&#8217;Estalvis i Mont de Pietat de Barcelona<\/a><\/strong>, on Carrer Gran de Gr\u00e0cia. 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