Antoni Gaudi, religious fanatic and world-renowned architect.

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ANTONI GAUDI

Antoni Gaudi, a Spanish religious fanatic, is a world-renowned architect, despite the fact he worked on only twenty major projects in his lifetime. Gaudi was born 150 years ago. At the time he was not well thought of by other architects.

Gaudi knew how to create distinctive architectural pieces without artistic or technical prejudice. He brought back the importance of quality in architecture and always meticulously considered the tastes, materials, procedures, styles etc. when he was designing.

Gaudi received the official title of architect at Barcelona’s Escuela Technica Superion de Arguitectura. His first projects included neo-gothic and Arabic influences.

During his later years he reached a point in his career where he did many experiments, and in effect turned his workshop into a laboratory. He searched for resistant materials, for exampkle, granite, basalt, porphyry, etc. He also used mirrors and photography in his designs. His new and original ideas surprised many and few people understood it, but it resulted in fantastic and imporessive designs such as the Crypt of the Coloma Guell, the Pedrera, Park Guell, and the Temple of the Sagrada Familia. Francesc Pujols, a popular philosopher of the time, and a friend of Gaudi, stated that,

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“In all the works of the great Gaudi, what happened was that no one liked them, nor was there anyone who dared to say it to his face, because he had a style that asserted itself without pleasing.”

Gaudi was often critisised for his work on the Sagrada Familia, because he took such a time with it. It is still being completed today, 72 years after his death. This obsessive attention to detail and perfection annoyed those wanting to see the Sagrada Familia completed. The Sagrada Familia was for the congregation of Saint Joseph, and initially designed in a ...

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