Jujol, de Perejaume

Barcelona, Spain

Catalan Modernisme, early 20th-century architecture, decorative experimentation, drawing, design, collage-like thinking, and poetic architectural imagination.

Drawing

Image credit

© Josep Maria Jujol. Lletra J. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Donació dels germans Jujol.

Meet the artist

Perejaume

ArtLovers Tip

Go with one question in mind: what happens when architecture stops behaving like architecture and starts behaving like art? Jujol’s magic is in the detail — the curve, the colour, the unexpected mark — where a building suddenly feels as if it were thinking out loud.

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Part of Barcelona’s 2026 World Capital of Architecture programme.

Jujol didn’t just design buildings.

He made architecture feel like drawing, movement, accident, colour — and imagination set free.

This exhibition is especially interesting because Jujol is seen through Perejaume — an artist and poet whose own work moves between landscape, image, language and perception. So this is not only an architectural exhibition; it is also an artist’s reading of another artist-architect.

Jujol, by Perejaume is presented as the first major exhibition dedicated to Josep Maria Jujol, one of the most original figures of early 20th-century Catalan architecture. The show follows the donation of Jujol’s documentary archive to the COAC and the MNAC, giving the museum a powerful opportunity to revisit his work in depth.

You’re watching:

  • Jujol’s architecture as invention, not just construction
  • Drawings, documents and materials connected to his creative process
  • A dialogue between Jujol and figures such as Antoni Gaudí, Bruno Taut, Vladimir Tatlin and Henri Matisse
  • Architecture understood as colour, gesture, ornament, structure and freedom
  • Perejaume’s poetic way of approaching Jujol’s imagination

The exhibition invites you to look at Jujol not as a secondary figure beside Gaudí, but as a radical creator in his own right.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you love architecture, Barcelona, Modernisme, or artists who refuse to stay inside one category.

Because Jujol is one of those figures who changes how you understand Catalan architecture. His work is not only functional or decorative; it feels alive, improvised, handmade, and intensely personal.

It also matters because Barcelona in 2026 will be positioned globally through architecture, and this exhibition gives a deeper, more experimental reading of that story — beyond the obvious icons.

How to experience it

Don’t look at Jujol only as an architect — look at him as a visual thinker

Pay attention to drawing, detail, colour, ornament and gesture

Notice how small marks can become architectural ideas

Think of the exhibition as a dialogue: Jujol seen through Perejaume’s imagination

After the show, walk through Barcelona looking for architecture that feels handmade, irregular, poetic or alive

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