Pis-Museu Casa Bloc
You come to Casa Bloc through rationalism, but you stay for its purpose: a workers’ housing experiment built in the Second Spanish Republic. Construction ran from 1932 to 1936, and the architect linked with this building is Joan Baptista Subirana i Subirana, a name that also anchors the project’s wider Catalan Modernist ambition. Casa Bloc was conceived by architects connected to GATCPAC—Josep Lluís Sert, Josep Torres Clavé, and Subirana—who argued for a “new way of living” that supported collective identity and decent, functional accommodation. The project began as part of a Workers’ Housing Group, where construction time and material quantities were kept under strict control so costs could be calculated; each small house provided 35 square metres of living space plus a garden. The Spanish Civil War cut the wider effort short. …
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