THE GREAT UNKNOWN: MODERNISM IN TARRAGONA

He has published the following books: Arquitectura de Tarragona, XIX-XX (1980); Architecture of Reus. Tomb of Ravals (1985); Architecture of Tarragona from the 12th century (1991); La Laboral de Tarragona, foundations and construction (2007).

He has collaborated in miscellanys with articles on modernist architecture (Gaudí, Jujol, Martinell) and in the Subdelegation of the Government in Tarragona by Alejandro de la Sota. Article in the "Diari de Tarragona" and in the "MÁS Diari"

He has produced the visual audio "Tarragona is also modernist" (2010) and "To the heroes of Tarragona 1811" (2011)

They are part of the modernist route:

• On the Rambla Nova, Casa Salas, built in 1907, according to the project by the Tarragona architect Ramon Salas i Ricomà.
• Following the same artery in the city, the Metropol Theater (1908-1910), an architectural jewel of the Tarragona architect, Gaudí's disciple, Josep M. Jujol.
• The altar of the church of Jesus and Maria on the street Méndez Núñez, by Antoni Gaudí.
• The Puncha of the Carmelite Fathers (1897). The original building was designed by the architect Pau Monguió i Segura. In 1919, the architect Josep Maria Jujol designed the chamber and the dome. It is a modernist building, with gothic eclectic features that were intended for seminar, convent and church.
• The mausoleum of King Jaume I, at the Municipal Palace, by the architect Domènec i Muntaner.
• The Quinta de San Rafael. Modernist building designed by the architect Julià Maria Fossas, dating to the year 1912 and promoted by the Puig i Valls family. It is a totally isolated building located in the heart of the City Park.
• The Plaza de Braus, which dates back to 1885 and was designed by the architect Ramón Salas i Ricomá.
• L'Antic Escorxador, now the headquarters of the Rovira i Virgili University rectorate. Modernist building, opened in 1902, was designed by the architect Josep Maria Pujol de Barberà.

In the Tarragona area, a modernist building was built, a market (1915), built by the architect Josep Maria Pujol de Barberà. And the convent-school of the Order of Santa Teresa de Jesús (1922), the Teresines, which becomes a faithful example of the Catalan Noucentisme, an architectural movement after modernism, by the architect Bernardí Martorell i Puig.