Antoni Gaudi

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• 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 19051907
  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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