Students: Course : 4º A

Index
1. Biography
2. Professional life. Works
3. Expiatory Temple La Sagrada Familia
4. Conclusion
1. BIOGRAPHY.

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish architect and is the

best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism.
Gaudi was born in Reus in 1852 and died in Barcelona in
the year 1926.
1860 - He begins his primary education at the school run by
Berenguer in Reus. In 1863, he joins the Piarist school in Reus.
1869 - At the age of 17, he moves with his family to
Barcelona and enrols at the Middle Education Institute as a
pupil entitled to sit exams but under no obligation to attend
classes. He lives with his brother Francesc who studies
medicine.
He studies elements of physics and natural history. He
registers at the University of Barcelona Faculty of Sciences,
where he studies a foundation course in architecture with a
view to entering the Provincial School of Architecture.
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1873 – To finance his studies, he works as a draughtsman

for the master builder Josep Fontserè i Mestres, who at the
time was in charge of the urbanization of the Ciutadella de
Barcelona park. He continued to contribute to the park works
until 1878.
Gaudi begins the admission courses at the Barcelona
Provincial School of Architecture. In 1875, he passes the
foundation course.
1876 – His mother dies, Antònia Cornet i Bertran.
1878 – On 15 March, he officially qualifies as an architect.
1879 – He becomes a Member of the Catalanist
Association of Scientific Excursions.
1880 - Gaudi is a member of the organising committee of
the Exhibition of the Industrial Arts.
This exhibition is held in December in the central offices of
Foment del Treball in Barcelona.
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1906 – He buys the Park Güell show house, built by

Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, and moves into it with his father
and niece. That same year, his father dies, Francesc Gaudí.
1912 – Her niece Rosa Egea i Gaudí dies at the age of 36.
1818 – His protector and patron, Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi,
dies at the Larrard house in Park Güell.
1926 – On June 7, a tram runs over him and leaves him
badly injured. He dies three days later.
On June 12, he is buried in the chapel of Carmen in the
crypt of the Sagrada Familia.
2. PROFESSIONAL LIFE. WORKS.
2.1 Professional Life.

In its beginnings, Gaudí is influenced by neo-

Gothic art and certain oriental architectural
trends. In the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, Gaudí led to modernism.
However, the architect went beyond orthodox
modernism, creating a personal style based on
the observation of nature, going on to use
geometric shapes, such as the hyperbolic
paraboloid, the hyperboloid, the helicoid and
the conoid.
All his work is marked by his four great
passions in life: architecture, nature, religion
and Catalonia.
2. PROFESSIONAL LIFE. WORKS.
2.1 Professional Life.

1867 – At the age of 15, Gaudi draws

illustrations for the handwritten magazine El
Arlequín.
1870 – Restoration project for Poblet
Monastery. Together with his classmates Eduard
Toda i Güell and Josep Ribera, he draws up a
restoration project for the Monastery of Santa
Maria de Poblet.
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2.1 Professional Life.

1875 – Projects as a student. Gaudi designs a

number of projects for subjects taught at the
Barcelona Provincial School of Architecture.
These projects include: the water cistern in
Ciutadella Park (1875); a project for a general
hospital in Barcelona (1876-1877); a project for
the Spanish Pavilion at the World’s Fair in
Philadelphia (1876); and a fountain for Plaça de
Catalunya in Barcelona (1877). His end-of-course
project is a design for a university auditorium
(1877).
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2.1 Professional Life.

1876 – Drawings for the Sanctuary at

Montserrat. In his capacity as draughtsman for
the architect Francesc de Paula del Villar i
Lozano, he produces drawings for the apse and
niche of the Sanctuary at Montserrat.
1882 – Collaboration with the architect Joan
Martorell. Gaudi works as an assistant
draughtsman for the architect Joan Martorell i
Montells.
The architect was building the church of the
Sagrat Cor de Jesús School in Barcelona. Gaudi
also works for Martorell on the Gothic Revival
church of the Silesian in Barcelona.
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2.1 Professional Life.

1883 – Beginning of his professional career

with important works such as Finca Güell or
Casa Vicens.
1910 – Gaudi Exhibition in Paris. This
exhibition is presented at the Salon of the
Société des Beaux-Arts. Gaudi exhibits models,
plans and photographs of various works and has
the collaboration of the architects Joan Rubió i
Bellver and Francesc Berenguer i Mestres.
1911 – Participation in the First National
Architecture Salon in Madrid. At the First
National Architecture Salon (Madrid), he shows
the pieces produced expressly for the Gaudi
Exhibition held the previous year in Paris.
2. PROFESSIONAL LIFE. WORKS.
2.2 Gaudí's most important works.

1. “La Sagrada Familia” – (1883- not finished) – Barcelona

2. Professional life. Works.
2.2 Gaudí's most important works.

2. “El Capricho” – (1883-1885) – Comillas (Spain)

"El Capricho" is a modernist building

located a villa in Comillas, Cantabria,
Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí. It was
built in 1883-1885 for the summer use
of a wealthy client, Máximo Díaz de
Quijano.
“El Capricho” belongs to the
architect's orientalist period. The tower
has been compared to a minaret.
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2.2 Gaudí's most important works.

3. “Casa Vicens” – (1883-1888) – Barcelona

“Casa Vicens" is a house designed by
Antoni Gaudí, now a museum. It is located
in Barcelona. It is considered one of the
first buildings of Art Nouveau and was the
first house designed by Gaudí.
The style of Casa Vicens is a type of
neo-Mudejar architecture, one of the
popular styles that can be seen
throughout Gaudí's architecture,
including the oriental and neoclassical.
2. Professional life. Works.
2.2 Gaudí's most important works.

4. “Finca Güell” – (1884-1887) – Barcelona

“Casa Vicens" is a house designed by
Antoni Gaudí, now a museum. It is located
in Barcelona. It is considered one of the
first buildings of Art Nouveau and was the
first house designed by Gaudí.
The style of Casa Vicens is a type of
neo-Mudejar architecture, one of the
popular styles that can be seen
throughout Gaudí's architecture,
including the oriental and neoclassical.