Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish architect from Barcelona known for his unique modernist style. He is most famous for his unfinished Sagrada Familia basilica, to which he dedicated over 40 years of work. Gaudi's highly original style fused Gothic, Moorish, and organic influences. Almost all of Gaudi's work was completed in Barcelona, where he helped spark the Catalan modernism movement and expressed Catalan nationalism through his architecture. He died in 1926 while still working on the Sagrada Familia.

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Gaudi
The great architect
of Barcelona

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Outline
 Introduction
 Part I. Gaudi’s life
 Part II. His work
 Part III. Barcelona
 Conclusion
 References

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Introduction
 The master Antoni Gaudí, architect, artist and designer
lived during the splendor of "Modernisme", the
architectural and artistic movement in Catalonia, that had
correspondence with "Art Nouveau" in France and
"Jugendstil" in Germany
 Antoni Gaudí executed most of his work in the city of
Barcelona including the famous Sagrada Familia
 Gaudí was an important participant in the Catalan
Renaixensa, an artistic revival of the arts and crafts
combined with a political revival in the form of fervent
anti-Castilian "Catalanism."

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Part I. Gaudi’s life
 Gaudí y Cornet, Antoni (1852-1926), Spanish architect
 Born June 25, 1852, in Reus, Catalonia, Gaudí was the son
of a coppersmith
 He attended the School of Architecture in Barcelona in
1874, where he spent his life; graduated in 1878
 In 1883 Gaudí was appointed official architect of the huge
Church of the Holy Family
 Gaudi never married and devoted his life entirely to his art
 He was deeply involved in Catalan nationalism, of which
he was a leader. He died June 10, 1926, in Barcelona

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Part II. His work
 His style is often described as a blend of neo-Gothic and
art nouveau, but it also has surrealist and cubist elements
 The spires of El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Família
(Church of the Sacred Family), each more than 100 m tall,
dominate the skyline of Barcelona, Spain
 In 1891, nine years after construction started on the neo-
Gothic cathedral, Gaudí took over as official architect and
made the project a personal obsession
 When Gaudí died in a trolley accident in 1926, the
cathedral was left unfinished
 Among Gaudí's other celebrated works are two apartment
buildings, the Casa Batlló (1907) and the Casa Milá (1907)

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Part III. Barcelona
 Almost the entire professional activity of Gaudi occurred
in Barcelona, the greater part of his work is there
 The religious symbol of the Renaixensa in Barcelona was
the church of the Holy Family, a project that was to occupy
Gaudí throughout his entire career
 Barcelona, city, northeastern Spain, capital of Barcelona
Province and the autonomous region of Catalonia, a
seaport on the Mediterranean Sea
 Gaudí experimented with the Baroque in the Casa Calvet
at Barcelona (1898-1904)
 In his Villa Bell Esguard (1900-02) and the Güell Park
(1900-14), in Barcelona, and in the Colonia Güell Church
(1898-c. 1915), south of that city, he arrived at a type of
structure that has come to be called equilibrated

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La Sagrada Familia
 Gaudi dedicated more than forty years of his life as an
architect to the Neo-Gothic unfinished cathedral
 He transformed the original design into a fantastical,
soaring work that incorporates Gothic, Moorish, African,
and purely imaginative influences into its structure
 Despite controversy over whether the cathedral should
remain in its uncompleted form as a monument to the
architect, construction began again in 1979, closely
following Gaudí’s original plan
 The temple has a basilical floor-plan, with five naves and
three transepts. The interior is 90m long and the transept
60m wide; the central nave measures 15m

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Conclusion
 Gaudi was totally dedicated to architecture; his personal
and professional lives were one
 Influenced by Violet-Le-Duc and Ruskin, he was one of the
basic architects of Art Nouveau, where he is classified
 After some years of criticism generated by the
"Noucentisme" (artistic way opposed to Art Nouveau
developed in Catalonia between 1910 and 1936), by the
1960s, he came to be revered by professionals and laymen
alike for his boundless and tenacious imagination
 Today the prestige of Gaudí is a fact accepted all around
the world by specialists and people

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