Antoni Gaudí - Works and Biography

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Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926)

A Spanish Catalan architect from Reus and the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflects an individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.

Gaudi’s style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. He worked almost entirely in or near Barcelona. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Família), which was unfinished at his death in 1926.

The architectural work of Gaudí is remarkable for its range of forms, textures, and polychromy and for the free, expressive way in which these elements of his art seem to be composed. The complex geometries of a Gaudí building so coincide with its architectural structure that the whole, including its surface, gives the appearance of being a natural object in complete conformity with nature’s laws. Such a sense of total unity also informed the life of Gaudí; his personal and professional lives were one, and his collected comments about the art of building are essentially aphorisms about the art of living. He was totally dedicated to architecture, which for him was a totality of many arts.

WORKS

Sagrada Familia
El Capricho
Casa Vicens
Episcopal Palace of Astorga
Güell Pavilions
Palau Güell
Teresian College
Casa Botines
Franciscan Missions in Tangier
Bodegas Güell
Casa Calvet
Bellesguard
Park Güell
Artigas Gardens
Casa Milà
Casa Batlló
Church of Colònia Güell
Hotel Attraction
Sagrada Família Schools

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