Antoni Gaudí

Derided by rationalists for his inimitable style, Gaudi folded function into form through an intuitive synthesis of the past, nature, and imagination that may have foreshadowed today’s architecture. Because of a fire in 1936 at the Sagrada Familia, many of Gaudi’s drawings and models have been lost leaving an incomplete biographical portrait. However, through analysis of his carefully incorporated mythical and natural allusions, and balance of light and geometry, one can piece together a more complete

In 1884, Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí began work on La Sagrada Família (the Expiratory Church of the Holy Family,) a Catholic cathedral in Barcelona, Spain. What began as a modest Gothic Revival design by fellow architect Francisco de Paula del Villar transformed, under Gaudi’s direction, into a massive monument to Catholicism, Catalonia, and the city of Barcelona. Neither of the Gothic tradition nor Catalan Modernisme, La Sagrada Familia is known for its striking individuality at the turn of the

research a famous architect and were then to design a poster based on one of their buildings and their styles. I like many of the other students was slightly uninterested at first. However, I quickly found delight in this project, for I soon discovered Antoni Gaudi. I marveled at every photo of every building I saw. From my favorites, Casa Batlló and Palau Guëll to the classic Sagrada Famillia, I was practically drooling at my desk every day. The other kids scoffed at my excitement and determination to

a unique atmosphere. The flow was very artistic; you can see colors all over, artifacts on every town square, greenery and organic flowing lines. Within all this Design madness a modern artifact stood out for me. Looking at it from a distance, it grabbed my attention with its light translucent structure; I couldn’t define the shape. In my eyes all I could see was clustered, intersecting, free stranding lines in the middle of Plaza Nova. This installation titled “Identity” was designed by Chinese-based

Best Vacation Planning Tips with Soufeel As you know, Ben and I just came back from an amazing vacation to Spain. I can 't be happier as I finally saw with my own eyes all of the creations of my favorite artist/architect Antoni Gaudi and tasted all of the amazing dishes from Spanish cuisine. I love to take the time and plan our vacation on my own so we can see not only basic tourist attractions but also live for a couple of days as locals of the place we visit. Even though this year we booked the

“Originality is returning to the origin,” is one of the most famous and often-repeated phrase of the Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudi. Gaudi was a devout religious man who believed that nature was the origin and he started encouraging his belief of returning to the primitive basics. He had a great regard for nature as a creation of God and most of his works were informed by an obsessive religious spiritualism, a strong relationship with nature and heavy interest in ecology with an acutely personal

Stairs are one of the oldest structures in architectural history. They have always been an important part of a building or structure because without them you wouldn’t be able to get from the bottom to the top or vice versa. There is no actual answer of when the very first set of stairs was created. But there has been several sources say that the oldest surviving stairs are found in the ruins of Jericho. There are claims that these stairs are over 7,000 years old. This could mean that stairs were

Robin GabagePatricia SchmidtIntroduction of Visual ArtsOctober 8th 2016 Module 7 I feel as if the Falling Water House had a greater impact on todays society. But only for Western Pennsylvania, growing up in eastern Pennsylvania I never once heard of The Falling Water House or Frank Lloyd Wright. Not until i came to Pittsburgh and now i have heard about it dozens of times in the past year, multiple times even this week. Most dramatic I would say is the Sagrada Familia, it has that gothic beautiful

Though it is welcoming approximately four million people each year for touristic purposes, La Sagrada Familia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is still making religious contributions by being a place of worship.1 According to the statistics, each year 8 million people visit Barcelona, the most famous city of Spain and half of them don’t leave the city without visiting La Sagrada Familia. Whether it is for a holy pilgrimage or for discovering the splendid landmark, even though its construction is

design was perfected by Antoni Gaudi, an architect, who was innovative and forward thinking in his creations and who