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Gaudi

The great architect of Barcelona

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Outline

Introduction Part I. Gaudi’s life Part II. His work Part III. Barcelona Conclusion References

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Introduction

The master Antoni Gaudí, architect, artist and designer lived during the splendor of "Modernisme", the architectural and artistic movement in Catalonia.

Antoni Gaudí executed most of his work in the city of Barcelona including the famous Sagrada Familia

Gaudí was an important participant in the Catalan Renaixensa, an artistic revival of the arts.

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Part I. Gaudi’s life

Gaudí y Cornet, Antoni (1852-1926), Spanish architect Born June 25, 1852, in Reus, Catalonia, Gaudí was the son

of a coppersmith He attended the School of Architecture in Barcelona in

1874, where he spent his life; graduated in 1878 In 1883 Gaudí was appointed official architect of the huge

Church of the Holy Family Gaudi never married and devoted his life entirely to his art He was deeply involved in Catalan nationalism, of which

he was a leader. He died June 10, 1926, in Barcelona

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Part II. His work neo-Gothic and art nouveau surrealist and cubist elements The spires of El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Família

each more than 100 m tall. Gaudí died in a trolley accident in 1926 the cathedral was left unfinished other celebrated works are the Casa Batlló (1907) and the

Casa Milá (1907)

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Part III. Barcelona Almost the entire professional activity of Gaudi occurred

in Barcelona, the greater part of his work is there The religious symbol of the Renaixensa in Barcelona was

the church of the Holy Family, a project that was to occupy Gaudí throughout his entire career

Barcelona, city, northeastern Spain, capital of Barcelona Province and the autonomous region of Catalonia, a seaport on the Mediterranean Sea

Gaudí experimented with the Baroque in the Casa Calvet at Barcelona (1898-1904)

In his Villa Bell Esguard (1900-02) and the Güell Park (1900-14), in Barcelona, and in the Colonia Güell Church (1898-c. 1915), south of that city, he arrived at a type of structure that has come to be called equilibrated

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La Sagrada Familia Gaudi dedicated more than forty years of his life as an

architect to the Neo-Gothic unfinished cathedral He transformed the original design into a fantastical,

soaring work that incorporates Gothic, Moorish, African, and purely imaginative influences into its structure

Despite controversy over whether the cathedral should remain in its uncompleted form as a monument to the architect, construction began again in 1979, closely following Gaudí’s original plan

The temple has a basilical floor-plan, with five naves and three transepts. The interior is 90m long and the transept 60m wide; the central nave measures 15m

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Conclusion Gaudi was totally dedicated to architecture; his personal

and professional lives were one Influenced by Violet-Le-Duc and Ruskin, he was one of the

basic architects of Art Nouveau, where he is classified After some years of criticism generated by the

"Noucentisme" (artistic way opposed to Art Nouveau developed in Catalonia between 1910 and 1936), by the 1960s, he came to be revered by professionals and laymen alike for his boundless and tenacious imagination

Today the prestige of Gaudí is a fact accepted all around the world by specialists and people

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References

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761576127&cid=3#p3

http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/Europe/Spain/Barcelona.html

http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/Europe/Spain/Barcelona.html

http://www.cyberspain.com/passion/gaudi.htm http://www.gaudiallgaudi.com/AA002.htm http://www.lexised.com/architecture/gaudi/bio.html http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/about.html