The '''Casa Bloc''' is a residential building built between 1932 and 1936 found in the [[Sant Andreu]] district of the city of [[Barcelona]] ([[Catalonia]], [[Spain]]). Its architects were [[Josep Lluís Sert]] (1902–1983), [[Josep Torres Clavé]] (1906–1939) and [[Joan Baptista Subirana]] (1904–1978), all members of [[GATCPAC]] ''(Catalan Group of Catalan Architects and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture)''. Today, the Casa Bloc is considered a symbol of the [[rationalist architecture]] in Barcelona promoted by the [[Catalan Government]] during [[Second Spanish Republic]], since init was once aan innovative social project innovative, integrated in the urban environment and housing functional accommodation designed as minimum standard for workers.
functional accommodation designed as minimum standard for workers. It was a project that took into account the relationship between the new building and the resulting urban morphology, posing a new model for twentieth-century Barcelona opposed, but not contradictory to the [[Eixample]] of the XIX century.<ref>{{cite press release | title = Visit the home of the Casa Bloc | publisher = Disseny Hub Barcelona | year = 2011 | accessdate = January 30, 2012}}</ref> In 1992, the Generalitat de Catalunya declared the building as a protected heritage, in the category of Monuments.<ref>{{cite web | title = Orden de 12 de febrero de 1993 | trans_title = Order of January 7, 1993 | publisher = Department of Culture | work = [[Gazette]] | date = February 26, 1993 | url = http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1993/02/26/pdfs/A06416-06417.pdf | accessdate = January 30, 2012 | language = Castilian}}</ref>
