Architect: August Font i Carreras, 1888
Casa Raventos i Via represents a change in the architectural conception of private buildings: for the first time in Vilafranca medieval elements are incorporated in this type of housing. Of the building, the balcony followed by five portals with false ogival arches on the main facade stands out. Also the hall with the main staircase, some of the inner rooms and the large garden. The Raventós i Via House will have a very important urban impact and will later influence other constructions in Vilafranca.
August Font and Carreras (Barcelona, June 2, 1846 - Barcelona, March 6, 1924) was a Catalan architect and teacher. Among his pupils was Antoni Gaudí.
An advantaged student of Elies Rogent, he graduated in 1869. He began his most outstanding professional activity at the Pilar basilica in Saragossa, where he directed the restoration and strengthening of the central dome. He also took part in the drafting, alongside Rogent, of the project of the University of Barcelona, the restoration project of the cathedral of Tarragona, and participated in that of Girona.
Of his work as a whole, the completion of the Gothic facade of the cathedral of Santa Eulàlia in Barcelona is particularly noteworthy, where his skill and mastery of neo-Gothic architecture became evident.
Other key works were the Palau de Belles Arts de Barcelona, which was inside the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona and which has now disappeared, the basilica of Santa Maria de Vilafranca, the Plaça de Toros de Les Arenes de Barcelona, the Església de la Caritat also in Barcelona, and the renovation works of the Can Feu castle in Sabadell.
In 1894 he was appointed academician of Fine Arts in Barcelona.