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100 — Antoni Gaudí 1 — Bad at School

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The History of the Cotenary Arches

This is the last kind of little getting started project, he did. And these are all between kind of 1878 and 1883ish, sort of the first five years of his career. He was put onto this by Martirel, there's a workers' cooperative called the Matherinezi which had like various cooperatively owned businesses. The main thing which survives is this big shed, which has been kind of reconstructed,. It's the first appearance of these like big cotenary arches, which are big. But it's in the idea is that it's kind of like a cotenary.

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