With the modernity, the idea of architecture as art and autonomous artistic genre is questioned by movements such as Arts-and-Crafts, the Pre-Raphaelitism and the artistic and decorative manifestations such as Belgian Art-Nouveau, the Austrian Sessezion, the German Jungendstill and Catalan Modernisme, influenced by concepts such as Wagnerian Total Work of Art and the critic characters as Hegel. The scientific revolution that took shape from the low middle age separated sculpture and building as a phenomenon. Later, with the birth of modern art criticism, especially with the idea of autonomy of the different artistic expressions of Lessing in the eighteenth century, and the aesthetics of autonomous genres of Hegel, in XIX century, it formalizes the idea of autonomous artistic genres. Complementarily to this process, there is a gap between art and society, toward an Art-pour-l'art art. The purpose of this research is to understand the Fin-de-Siècle critical to the social autonomy of art and artistic genres, produced in Europe, especially in the Catalan case, and the relationship of art and architecture with the national political project. The focus is the Ateneu Catalan / Barcelonès as specific object of investigation. The election of this institution is due to the fact that it was a center of meeting between intellectuals and the Catalan bourgeoisie during the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which counted among its active members with architects as important as Lluis Domènech i Montaner, Josep Puig i Cadafalch and Antoni Gaudí, carrying out various discussions that included the theoretical object of this thesis. The method used was to review the discussions held within the ateneistic institutional environment by personalities linked directly or indirectly to the world of art and architecture, analyzing them from the perspective of integrating art and society through the concepts of Social Engineering of Karl Popper, Invented Traditions of Eric Hobsbawm and the criticism of these phenomena carried out in the Catalan environment by theorists such as Manuel Delgado or Llorenç Prats.
Key-words: Architecture; Autonomy; Ateneo Catalán; Ateneu Barcelonès; Catalonia; Renaixença; Modernisme; Noucentisme; Fin-de-Siècle
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