Antonio Gaudi

Background information
Born: June 25, 1852, Reus, Spain Died: June 10, 1926, Barcelona, Spain Buried: Sagrada Famlia, Barcelona, Spain Education: Escola Tcnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (18731877)

Life of Antonio
The son of a coppersmith, Antoni Gaud was born on June 25, 1852, and took to architecture at a young age. He attended school in Barcelona, the city that would become home to most of his great works. Gaud was part of the Catalan Modernista movement, eventually transcending it with his nature-based organic style. Gaud died on June 10, 1926, in Barcelona, Spain.

La Sagrada Familia
began in 1882 and is still underway. It is expected to be completed in 2041. It was originally conceived by Catalan publisher Josep Bocabella symbolic of the revolutionary ideas becoming increasingly apparent in the city of Barcelona. Built between 1904 and 1906 also none as la padrera

Park Guell Park Guells lizard

Park Guell, intended to serve Guell's private city, became all of Barcelona's, then the world's favourite. Gaudi let loose his imagination

Columns in park Guell

originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Gell, after whom the park was named. It was inspired by the English garden city movement; hence the original English name Park (in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for "Park" is "Parc", there are 86 colomes alone the park.