Domènec Sugrañes i Gras | |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Birth Date: | 12 December 1878 |
Birth Place: | Reus, Catalonia, Spain |
Death Place: | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
Significant Buildings: | Sagrada Família |
Domènec Sugrañes i Gras (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /duˈmɛnək suˈɣɾaɲəz i ˈɣɾas/; 12 December 1878 – 9 August 1938) was a Catalan modernist architect and disciple of Antoni Gaudí. He succeeded him at the head of the works of the church of the Sagrada Família and finished the façade of the Nativity. Sugrañes held this charge during 10 years, from Gaudí's death in 1926 until 20 July 1936.
Gaudí met Sugrañes in 1905 during his last year at the school of architecture. Since then, he participated in most of Gaudí's works. In collaboration with Gaudí, Sugrañes decorated the Bellesguard house with seating banks in mosaic (1917). He made the house of, of which Gaudí made only gateway to the property. He also collaborated in the Casa Batlló and Casa Milà.
Sugrañes became close with Gaudí to the extent that the latter established him as his testamentary executor.[1]