Casa Milà (1906-1912) is a building constructed by the architect Antoni Gaudí on behalf of Pere Milà and Roser Segimon. The name of the building, “Casa Milà”, is due to this fact, it was the new residence of the Milà family. The couple occupied the main floor and rented the rest of the houses.
Casa Milà is Antoni Gaudí’s most emblematic civil building, both for its constructive and functional innovations and for its ornamental and decorative solutions. It is a total work of art.
Known as “La Pedrera” due to its external appearance, similar to an open-pit quarry, it presents shapes drawn from nature.
It was Gaudí’s last civil work and it meant a break with the schemes of his time.
