ANTONI GAUDI

Antoni Placid Guillem Gaudi i Cornet

• Date of Birth: June 25 1852
• Nationality: Spanish
• Died at Age: 73 on June 10 1926
• Born in: Catalonia
• Famous As: Architect
• Family:
-Father: -Francesc Gaudí i Serra
-Mother: Antònia Cornet i
Bertran
Life and Journey
• A Spanish architect and is best known for his organic and free-flowing
architecture.
• Born in to a poor family in Catalonia and he quickly showed a great
interest in architecture.
• He was also a part of the Catalan Modernista movement that eventually
morphed his nature-inspired style.
• His works were primarily influenced by his passion in life. These included
architecture, nature and religion.
• He did his schooling in Barcelona, which is a city that houses most of his
great works.
 Mentor

•Joan Martorell-his main mentor

School

• 1868- move to Barcelona to study architecture at Escuela

Técnica Superior de Arquitectura.

• 1873- he entered Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura.

But his Studies were interrupted.

• December 1876- completing his military service

Antoni Gaudi’s Works (UNESCO)
Parque Güell

-A public park system composed

of gardens and architectural
elements located on Carmel Hill,
in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

-The park was built from 1900 to

1914 and was officially opened
as a public park in 1926.
 Palacio Güell
- A mansion designed by the architect
Antoni Gaudi for the industrial
tycoon Eusebi Güell, it was built
between 1886 and 1888.

- -It is situated on the Carrer Nou

de la Rambla, in the El Raval
Neighborhood of Barcelona in
Catalonia, Spain.
 Casa Mila
- Popularly known as La
Pedrera or “The Stone
Quarry”.

- It was the last private

residence designed by
architect Antoni Gaudi and
was built between 1906 and
1912.
 Casa Vicens
- A house in Barcelona, designed by
Antoni Gaudi, now a museum. It is
located at the neighborhood of
Gràcia on Carrer de les Carolines.

- It was considered one of the first

buildings of Art Nouveau and was
the first house designed by Gaudi.
Casa Batlló
- A building in the center of
Barcelona, designed by
Antoni Gaudi and is
considered one of his
masterpieces.
- The local name for the
building is Casa dels ossos
(House of Bones), as it has a
visceral, skeletal organic
quality.
 Crypt at the
Colònia Güell
- The Church of Colònia Güell is an
unfinished work by Antoni Gaudi.

- It was built as a place of worship for

the people on a hillside in a
manufacturing suburb in Santa
Coloma de Cervelló.
 Nativity Façade and Crypt
of the Sagrada Familia
- The Basilica de la Sagrada Família
(Basilica of the Holy Family), also
known as Sagrada Familia.

- A large unfinished Roman Catholic

minor Basilica in the Eixample
district of Barcelona, Catalonia,
Spain.
Antoni Gaudi’s Works
(others)
Güell Pavilions El Capricho
Casa Botines The Episcopal Palace of Astroga
Casa Calvet Bodegas Güell
Bellesguard
Architectural Style

• Antoni Gaudi's style was initially heavily inspired by his

Victorian predecessors.

• He soon developed his style that composed of mixing

geometry with animated surfaces of brick or stone, ceramic
tiles as well as floral or reptilian like metalwork.
• The Roof of Casa Battlo epitomizes Gaudi's unique • Antoni Gaudi's Salamander, Park Guell
style
Post-1902 ( Antoni’s Equilibrated System)

• Antoni Gaudi's designs departed dramatically from what

had become agreed as conventional.

• At this time, he had created his own type of structure that

would come to be known as Equilibrated.
Quotes

"THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THE LAWS OF NATURE AS

A SUPPORT FOR THEIR NEW WORKS COLLABORATE
WITH THE CREATOR.“

"ANYTHING CREATED BY HUMAN BEINGS IS

ALREADY IN THE GREAT BOOK OF NATURE."
Design Philosophy
HE BELIEVED WITH CONVICTION HIS ARCHITECTURAL
ABILITY WAS A GIFT FROM GOD, AND THAT HIS
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE IN HIS FIELD BENEFITTED
HIS CITY AND HIS BELOVED CATALONIA. "SOCIAL
EXCELLENCE CAN BE ACHIEVED WHEN EVERYONE
USES THEIR OWN GOD-GIVEN GIFT," HE SAID.
Known for:

• Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish architect and is well known as

the face of Catalan Architecture. He was fond of nature, and
work is often cites as being inspired by his love of natural
design and modernism.
• His famous work is the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.