(1924-2009) 

The influence of Josep Maria Jujol, disciple of Gaudí, but especially that of José Antonio Coderch, one of the main driving forces behind the Modern Movement in Catalonia, were essential in the training process of this architect, whose career is linked from the beginning to that of his fellow classmate and later associate Federico Correa, with whom he founded the studio Correa-Milà in 1953. His oeuvre includes housing buildings, like the Casa Julia in?Cadaqués (1958) or the Casa Milà in Esplugues de Llobregat (1965); small-scale interventions, several times recognized with the FAD Award, like the Reno restaurants (1961), Flash-Flash (1970), Il Giardinetto (1974), all of them in Barcelona; and larger projects, among them the Atalaya Building (1970), the Plaza Real refurbishment (1981), the Regional?Council headquarters (1987) and the Olympic Ring of Montjuïc (1992), in Barcelona, and the new Episcopal Museum (2002), in Vic. Aside from his architectural and interior design work and his academic activity teaching at the Barcelona School of Architecture, Milà designed furniture pieces like the Barceloneta chair or the Diana lamp.