Casa Mila, also known as La Pedrera, is an apartment building at 92 Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi and completed in 1912. Its facade is built as a self-supporting undulating wall of carved limestone, without a single straight line, fronted by wrought iron balcony railings, and the building is organized around a free interior plan with two large courtyards and an underground garage, one of the first in a residential building. Its name, meaning the stone quarry, was originally used mockingly to describe its rough-hewn, cave-like appearance, and its roof terrace is animated by sculptural chimneys and stairwell exits. UNESCO inscribed Casa Mila in 1984 as part of the Works of Antoni Gaudi.
Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountPasseig de Gracia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1 Completed Year Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Designed By
Designed by Antoni Gaudi.
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
A landmark of Catalan Modernisme, part of the broader Art Nouveau movement.
Uses Element
Source Casa Mila (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, located there.
Sources
1. Casa Mila (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead section, first sentence
is a Modernista building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
lead section, construction history
built between 1906 and 1912
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Casa Mila, also known as La Pedrera, is an apartment building at 92 Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi and completed in 1912. Its facade is built as a self-supporting undulating wall of carved limestone, without a single straight line, fronted by wrought iron balcony railings, and the building is organized around a free interior plan with two large courtyards and an underground garage, one of the first in a residential building. Its name, meaning the stone quarry, was originally used mockingly to describe its rough-hewn, cave-like appearance, and its roof terrace is animated by sculptural chimneys and stairwell exits. UNESCO inscribed Casa Mila in 1984 as part of the Works of Antoni Gaudi.
Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia article
All of these elements, constructed out of brick covered with lime, broken marble, or glass have a specific architectural function but are also real sculptures integrated into the building.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Casa Mila
- Wikidata Q207870, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q207870, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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