Antoni Gaudi

1852-1926
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 The son of a coppersmith, Antoni
Gaudi was born in Reus, Spain in
1852. He studied at the Escola
Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona
and designed his first major
commission for the Casa Vincens in
Barcelona using a Gothic style that set
a precedent for his future work.
 Over the course of his career, Gaudi
developed a sensuous, curving, almost
surreal design style which established
him as the innovative leader of the
Spanish Art Nouveau movement. With
little regard for formal order, he
juxtaposed unrelated systems and
altered established visual order.
Gaudi's characteristically warped form
of Gothic architecture drew admiration
from other avant-garde artists.
 Although categorized with the Art
Nouveau, Gaudi created an entirely
original style. He died in Barcelona in
1926
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 Casa Batllo is a building restored by
Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol,
built in the year 1877 and remodelled
in the years 1905–1907; located at 43,
Passeig de Gràcia of Barcelona,
Catalonia.
 The local name for the building is Casa
dels ossos (House of Bones), and
indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal
organic quality. It was originally
designed for a middle-class family and
situated in a prosperous district of
Barcelona.
 The building looks very remarkable —
like everything Gaudí designed, only
identifiable as Modernisme or Art
Nouveau in the broadest sense. The
ground floor, in particular, is rather
astonishing with tracery, irregular oval
windows and flowing sculpted stone
work.
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 It seems that the goal of the
designer was to avoid straight
lines completely. Much of the
façade is decorated with a mosaic
made of broken ceramic tiles that
starts in shades of golden orange
moving into greenish blues. The
roof is arched and was likened to
the back of a dragon or dinosaur.
A common theory about the
building is that the rounded
feature to the left of centre,
terminating at the top in a turret
and cross, represents the sword of
Saint George (patron saint of
Catalonia), which has been
plunged into the back of the
dragon.
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 Casa Mila Apartment block
built between 1906 and 1910
in Barcelona for the Milà
family.
The façade is an impressive
wave-like mass of rough-
shipped stone.
The windows and doors seem
to be dug out of this stone
mass and are trimmed in
exquisitely crafted wrought iron
work with forms on the
balconies and astonishing
grilles on the two street-doors.
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 On the stepped terrace, coming as
an elegant surprise are the huge
stair exits of sculptured spirals and
faced with broken ceramics and
marble.
The chimneys bring to mind
knights wearing visors.
All of this makes up a fantastic
and futurist space. The interior
marine decoration - ceilings,
columns and the furniture
designed by Gaudi for this house
are extremely modern.
The Mila apartments measured
1,323 squares meters, a really
vast place.
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 Colonia Guell
 Businessman Eusebio Güell
commissioned Gaudí to build a church
for his textile factory workers in the
village of Santa Coloma de Cervelló.
This job allowed the architect to try out
many of the practical solutions he
would go on to employ in later
projects. The building could not be
finished on account of financial
problems, but the entranceway, crypt,
staircase to the church, and the base
of one of the bell towers were all
completed. Access to the crypt is via
the entranceway, a portico with a
series of leaning columns. The crypt
has a star-shaped polygonal floor plan,
with brick and basalt pillars.
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 Sagrada Familia
 "Church of the Holy
Family"
 Roman Catholic
church under
construction in
Barcelona, Catalonia,
Spain. Construction
began in 1882 and
continues to this day
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