Gaudí (Basic Art Series 2.0)

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God’s architect: Gaudí’s ravishing symbiosis between built environment and natural world
 
From the towering Sagrada Família to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batlló and the enchanting landscape of Park Güell, it’s easy to look why Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) gained the epithet “God’s architect”. With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the beauty of natural creation: columns soar like tree trunks, window frames curve like flowering branches, and ceramic tiling shimmers like scaly, reptilian skin.

With this outstanding attention to natural detail, his inspirations from both neo-Gothic and Orientalist aesthetics, and a lifelong commitment to Catalan identity, Gaudí created a unique brand of the Modernista movement which transformed, and defines, Barcelona’s cityscape.

With seven of Gaudí’s projects listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this book introduces the architect’s peculiar vision and unique legacy, exploring the influences and the main points which enable his buildings to provoke, inspire, and amaze, one century after their construction.

 
About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series features:

  • an introduction to the life and work of the architect
  • the major works in chronological order
  • information concerning the clients, architectural preconditions in addition to construction problems and resolutions
  • a list of all of the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the most efficient and most famous buildings
  • approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)

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