eTwinning project GAUDI

1. Antoni Gaudi
Pupil: Krisnita Letica
VIII-2

2. About Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí (25 June 1852 – 10 June
1926) was an architect. He is the best
known practitioner of Catalan Modernism.
Gaudí's works have a highly individualized,
and one-of-a-kind style. Most are located in
Barcelona, including his main work, the
church of the Sagrada Família.

3. About Antoni Gaudi
Gaudí's work was influenced by his
passions in life: architecture, nature, and
religion.
He considered every detail of his creations
and integrated into his architecture such
crafts as ceramics, stained glass, wrought
ironworkforging and carpentry.

4. About Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudi

5. About Antoni Gaudi
He also introduced new techniques in the
treatment of materials, such as trencadís
which used waste ceramic pieces.
Under the influence of neo-Gothic art and
Oriental techniques, Gaudí became part of
the Modernista movement which was
reaching its peak in the late 19th and early
20th centuries.

6. About Antoni Gaudi
His work transcended mainstream
Modernisme, culminating in an organic style
inspired by natural forms. Gaudí rarely drew
detailed plans of his works, instead
preferring to create them as three-
dimensional scale models and moulding the
details as he conceived them.

7. About Antoni Gaudi
Gaudí's work enjoys global popularity and
continuing admiration and study by
architects. His masterpiece, the still-
incomplete Sagrada Família, is the most-
visited monument in Spain.
Between 1984 and 2005, seven of his works
were declared World Heritage Sites by
UNESCO.

8. About Antoni Gaudi
Gaudí's Roman Catholic faith intensified
during his life and religious images appear
in many of his works. This earned him the
nickname "God's Architect" and led to calls
for his beatification.

9. About Antoni Gaudi
Gaudí's Roman Catholic faith intensified
during his life and religious images appear
in many of his works. This earned him the
nickname "God's Architect" and led to calls
for his beatification.

10. The Works of Antoni Gaudí
The Works of Antoni Gaudí is a serial
property consisting of seven buildings by the
architect Antoni Gaudí located in Barcelona
and its surrounding areas. The property
attests to the exceptional creative
contribution of this architect to the
development of architecture and
construction technology in the 19th and
early 20th centuries.

11. The Works of Antoni Gaudí
The Park Güell, the Palau Güell, the Casa
Milà-La Pedrera, the Casa Vicens, the
Nativity Façade and the Crypt of the
Sagrada Família, the Casa Batlló, and the
Crypt of the Colònia Güell reflect an eclectic,
very personal style to which Gaudí gave free
rein in the field of architecture, as well as in
the design of gardens, sculptures, and
indeed all the arts.

12. The Park Güell
The Park Güell is a public park system
composed of gardens and architectonic
elements located on Carmel Hill, in
Barcelona, Catalonia .
Carmel Hill belongs to the mountain range
of Collserola – the Parc del Carmel is
located on the northern face. Park Güell is
located in La Salut, a neighborhood in the
Gràcia district of Barcelona.

13. The Park Güell
The park was built between 1900 and 1914
and was officially opened as a public park in
1926. In 1984, UNESCO declared the park
a World Heritage Site under "Works of
Antoni Gaudí".

14. The Park Güell
The Park Güell

15. The Park Güell
The Park Güell

16. The Palau Güell
The Palau Güell is a mansion designed by
the architect Antoni Gaudí for the industrial
tycoon Eusebi Güell and built between 1886
and 1888. It is situated on the Carrer Nou de
la Rambla, in the El Raval neighbourhood of
the city of Barcelona in Catalonia. It is part
of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works
of Antoni Gaudí".

17. The Palau Güell
The Palau Güell

18. The Palau Güell
The Palau Güell

19. The Casa Milà-La Pedrera
Casa Milà popularly known as La Pedrera or
"The stone quarry", a reference to its
unconventional rough-hewn appearance, is
a modernist building in Barcelona,
Catalonia, Spain. It was the last private
residence designed by architect Antoni
Gaudí and was built between 1906 and
1912.

20. The Casa Milà-La Pedrera
The building was commissioned in 1906 by
Pere Milà and his wife Roser Segimon. At
the time, it was controversial because of its
undulating stone facade, twisting wrought
iron balconies and designed by Josep Maria
Jujol. Several structural innovations include
a self-supporting stone façade, and an free-
plan floor, underground garage and the
spectacular on the roof-terrace.

21. The Casa Milà-La Pedrera
In 1984, it was declared a World Heritage
Site by UNESCO. From 2013 is the
headquarters of the Fundació Catalunya La
Pedrera which manages the visit to the
building, exhibitions and other cultural and
educative activities at Casa Milà.

22. The Casa Milà-La Pedrera
The Casa Milà-La Pedrera

23. The Casa Milà-La Pedrera
The Casa Milà-La Pedrera

24. The Casa Vicens
Casa Vicens is a house in Barcelona,
designed by Antoni Gaudí, now a museum.
It is located in the neighbourhood of Gràcia
on Carrer de les Carolines, 24. It is
considered one of the first buildings of Art
Nouveau and was the first house designed
by Gaudí.

25. The Casa Vicens
The Casa Vicens was commissioned in
1877 by Manuel Vicens i Montaner, an
owner of a brick and tile factory living in
Barcelona at the time. He inherited this
section of land from his mother on August
29, 1877, and hired architect Antoni Gaudí
for the project. Manuel then died on April 29,
1895. The house was enlarged in 1925 by
Joan Sierra de Martínez.

26. The Casa Vicens
The Casa Vicens

27. The Sagrada Família
The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la
Sagrada Família Templo Expiatorio de la
Sagrada Familia is a large unfinished
Roman Catholic church in Barcelona,
designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.

28. The Sagrada Família
Gaudí's work on the building is part of a
UNESCO World Heritage Site and in
November 2010 Pope Benedict XVI
consecrated and proclaimed it a minor
basilica,as distinct from a cathedral, which
must be the seat of a bishop.

29. The Sagrada Família
Sagrada Família

30. The Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló is a renowned building located
in the center of Barcelona and is one of
Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces.
A remodel of a previously built house, it was
redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been
refurbished several times after that. Gaudí's
assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras,
Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió also
contributed to the renovation project.

31. The Casa Batlló
The local name for the building is Casa dels
ossos (House of Bones), as it has a visceral,
skeletal organic quality.

32. The Casa Batlló
The Casa Batlló

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