The correa-milà team

Frederic Correa and Alfons Milà i Sagnier were school friends since they were ten years old and both got their degrees in architecture from the University of Barcelona. In 1953 they opened an architecture office together, and as well as Torre Atalaya they co-designed Barcelona’s Olympic Ring and the interior of Restaurant Reno (1961), among many other works.

Inspired by the Modern Movement, with such masters as Josep Antoni Coderch, with whom they collaborated for many years, their work is an interpretation of the architectural heritage of the great Catalan masters, and has led to its own movement.

The barcelona school

The Atalaya is one of the most characteristic buildings of the so-called Escola de Barcelona,  or Barcelona school, an architectural movement developed in Catalonia between 1960 and 1970. The movement is characterised by austerity and elegance and gives a nod to northern Italian architecture from the 1950s and 60s. The common stylistic stamp is the search for structure and logic, simple lines and innovative shapes, with emphasis on interior design and the urban planning surrounding the buildings.