Escola Josep Maria Jujol, a great example of making the most of architectural heritage

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Escola Josep Maria Jujol

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The industrialist Pere Manyach commissioned Josep Maria Jujol to build this factory in 1916. A century later, the building is still in use and part of a school.

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Making the most of our architectural heritage

It is not always easy to provide an obsolete building with a new use. But the Escola Josep Maria Jujol allowed this: the school’s covered playground was the main nave of the Manyach Workshops. These workshops, where locks and security items were manufactured, formed a large brick compound with metal structures. The most unique part of the compound was its natural lighting system, using skylights.

An unusual man

Pere Manyach, who came from a rich family of industrialists, led a truly fascinating life. A lover of the cultural movement of his time, he was Picasso’s first art dealer and a patron of young Catalan artists such as Jujol. He flirted with the anarchist ideas of his day, which caused him a few problems, and he was a friend of Antoni Gaudí’s too.

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