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Lluís Domènech i Montaner believed beauty could help people heal, and he staked a hospital on it. Domènech ran Barcelona’s architecture school, sat in Spain’s parliament, and trained the architects who made the city famous. Gaudí was his student. So when the banker Pau Gil left his fortune to build a new public hospital, Domènech didn’t design a building. He designed a city: a plan of forty-eight pavilions, each in its own garden, rotated forty-five degrees off Barcelona’s grid so every ward ca...
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