Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect

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Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) is without doubt one of the most admired architects of the twentieth century. Even these days, some seventy-five years after Gaudí’s death, his fanciful, exuberant buildings define Barcelona’s cityscape and continue to influence architects, sculptors, and designers. Most likely best known for the dynamic, sculptural facades, found on such buildings as the church of the Sagrada Familia and Casa Milà, Gaudí is as much respected as a technological innovator as a daring stylist.

In this enlightening volume, a concise, knowledgeable text by the director of the Royal Gaudí Chair on the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (Barcelona) combines with striking images by a well-known architectural photographer to provide a new point of view on Gaudí’s remarkable career. The text covers the full range of his oeuvre, describing early assignments in the 1870s as a draftsman for leading architects in Barcelona, the innovative buildings he created for the Güell Palace and Estate, daring new structural solutions at Bellesguard, architecture inspired by nature on the Casa Calvet and in the Park Güell, and the construction of his unfinished masterpiece, the Church of the Sagrada Familia, which occupied him until his death. The writer traces the entire influences that led to his definitive style, from his fascination with the Orient and neogothicism to his affinity for naturalism and specific geometric forms.

Brilliantly illustrated, this incisive overview of Gaudí’s visionary work is ideal for individuals who delight in his architecture in addition to those who sit up for traveling to Spain to see his monumental legacy.

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