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Block House is a residential building built between 1932 and 1936 found the district of Sant Andreu de Barcelona. Its architects were Josep Lluís Sert (1902-1983), Josep Torres Clave (1906-1939) and Joan Baptista Subirana (1904-1978), all members of GATCPAC (Group of Catalan Architects and Technicians for the Progress of 'Contemporary Architecture). Today, the Casa Bloc is considered a symbol of rationalist architecture in Barcelona promoted by the Generalitat of Catalonia during the Second Republic, because at the time was a social innovation, integrated into the urban environment and functional homes conceived as a minimum standard for workers' accommodation. It was a project that took into account the relationship between the new building and the resulting urban morphology, thus posing a new model for the twentieth century Barcelona opposed but not contradictory to the nineteenth century Eixample. In 1992 the Government of Catalonia declared the architectural ensemble of cultural interest in the Monument category

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