Casa Batlló

A roof of overlapping ceramic tiles that the city reads as the back of a sleeping dragon.

Casa Milà

Ventilation chimneys standing like helmeted figures on a stone roof.

Gaudí is said to have found marigolds on the plot and put them on the walls.

A parabolic hall that rises through the whole house and opens into a dome of light.

A lizard built from broken plates, and a technique that wastes nothing.

A floor tile designed for a house, now laid along the length of Passeig de Gràcia.

Sixteen concrete columns curving up and out, holding glass between them.

An observatory sketched in the trenches of the First World War and built as one flowing mass.

Transforms stone into a universal symbol of love and harmony.

A flower abstracted into geometry until it becomes the identity of a house.

Ten buildings

Each collection begins with a building. These are the facades, tiles, chimneys and vaults behind the pieces, and what was taken from each one.