Is Gaudí’s park a blot on Barcelona’s landscape because it was funded by the slave trade? | Rowan Moore
It is little explored that the father of the great architect’s patron, Eusebi Güell, made much of his fortune from slavery in Cuba I only recently learned, on a trip to Barcelona, that a large part of the money for Antoni Gaudí’s glorious buildings came from slavery in Cuba, in which Catalan traders were engaged…