Antoni Gaudi

One of the greatest architect of all time. Took act deco and art noveau to its pinacle

1. ANTONI GAUDI P0OJAN PATEL AR’ 1446 HOA STUDIO 3A

2. NAME : ANTONI GAUDI I CORNET BORN : 25 JUNE, 1852; REUS, CATALONIA, SPAIN DIED : 10 JUNE , 1926; BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN INTRODUCTION : BORN IN CATALONIA, SPAIN IN 1852. HIS FATHER WAS A COPPERSMITH. AT EARLY AGE HE SUFFERED FROM ILLNESS KNOWN AS RHEUMATISM. BECAUSE OF THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO PLAY, AND SPENT SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME STUDYING AND OBSERVING NATURE AND ITS DESIGN. THIS INVESTIGATION OF NATURE AT EARLY AGE, GREATLY INFLUCED HIS ORIGINL ARCHITECTURE STLYE. HE STUDIED ARCHITECTURE AT THE LLOTJA SCHOOL AND BARCELONA HIGHER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. TO FINANCE HIS STUDIES HE WORKED AS DARFTSMAN FOR VARIOUS ARCHITECTS AND CONTRACTOR.

3. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERIICS : DESIGN INSPRIED FROM ANIMALS AND PLANTS. DESIGN WHICH IS ADOPTED FROM ASTRONOMY. USE OF BAKE BRICKS OF THE CATALONIA TRDITION. USE OF GEOMETRICAL FORMS LIKE HYPERBOLOID, PARABOLOID, HELICOID AND CONE. EXPRESS COMPOSITE ART WITH BUILDING. USE OF CRAFTS LIKE CARPENTARY, CERAMICS, STAINED GLASS, WROUGHT IRON FORGING AND TRENCADIS. WORKING STYLE : GAUDI NEVER MADE DETAILED DRAWNG OF ANY OF HIS BUILDING. HE USE TO MAKE SCALE MODEL TO UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURE AND THE SPACES INSIDE THE BUILDING. HE CONSIDERED EVERY DETAIL AND INTEGRATED IT INTO HIS ARCHITECTURE. HE ALSO MADE SOME MAJOR CHANGES IN DESIGN WHILE THE BUILDING WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

4. WORKS : GAUDI TO FINANCE HIS EDUCATION WORKS FOR ARCHITECTS, AND BEFORE GRADUATION HE HAD DESIGNED SMALL DETAILS FOR THEIR BUILDINGS. IN HIS EARLY CAREER HE ALSN DESIGN SOME LAMPPOSTS, HANDRAILS AND SOME NEWSSTANDS. LAMPPOSTS PARK’S ENTRANCE GATE FOUNTAIN IN PALACE CATALUNYA UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY HALL

5. AT THE PARIS WORLD’S FAIR 1878  GAUDÍ DISPLAYED A SHOWCASE HE HAD PRODUCED FOR THE GLOVE MANUFACTURER COMELLA. ITS FUNCTIONAL AND AESTHETIC  MODERNISTA  DESIGN IMPRESSED CATALAN INDUSTRIALIST EUSEBI GÜELL, WHO THEN COMMISSIONED SOME OF GAUDÍ'S MOST OUTSTANDING WORK CHURCH OF COLÒNIA GÜELL CELLER GÜELL

6. PARK GUELL: THE PARK GUELL IS A PUBLIC PARK SYSTEM COMPOSED OF GARDENS AND ARCHITECTONIC ELEMENTS LOCATED ON CARMEL HILL, IN BARCELONA. GUELL’S PLANNING CONCEPT WAS A HOUSE AMONG GARDENS, FOR THE GARDEN CITY BUILT IN 1914 THE PARK WAS ORIGINALLY PART OF A COMMERCIALLY UNSUCCESSFUL HOUSING SITE  IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE ENGLISH GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT

7. SAGRADA FAMILIA LOCATION – BARCELONA, SPAIN CONSTRUCTION STARTED – 1882 BUILDING TYPE – CHUTCH, BASALICA CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM – MASONARY AND CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION OF SAGRADA FAMILIA COMMENCED IN 1882 AND GAUDÍ BECAME INVOLVED IN 1883, TAKING OVER THE PROJECT AND TRANSFORMING IT WITH HIS ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING STYLE, COMBINING GOTHIC AND CURVILINEAR ART NOUVEAU FORMS. GAUDÍ DEVOTED HIS LAST YEARS TO THE PROJECT, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH AT AGE 73 IN 1926, LESS THAN A QUARTER OF THE PROJECT WAS COMPLETE

8. THE ICONOGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL PROGRAMS OF THE CHURCH ARE COMPLEX BUT ITS PLAN IS BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BASILICA CRUCIFORM FOUND IN NEARLY ALL MEDIEVAL CATHEDRALS. HOWEVER, UNLIKE MANY THESE CHURCHES, SAGRADA FAMILIA IS NOT BUILT ON AN EAST-WEST AXIS. INSTEAD, THE CHURCH FOLLOWS THE DIAGONAL ORIENTATION THAT DEFINES SO MUCH OF BARCELONA, PLACING THE CHURCH ON A SOUTHEAST-NOTHWEST AXIS.  THE GLORY FA Ç ADE (SOUTHEAST): THIS WILL EVENTUALLY BE CHURCH'S MAIN FA Ç ADE AND ENTRANCE. AS WITH THE TRANSCEPT ENTRANCES, IT HOLDS A TRIPLE PORTAL DEDICATED TO CHARITY, FAITH, AND HOPE. THE FA Ç ADE ITSELF IS DEDICATED TO MANKIND IN RELATION TO THE DIVINE ORDER. THE PASSION FA Ç ADE (SOUTHWEST): DEDICATED TO THE PASSION OF CHRIST, ITS FOUR EXISTING BELLTOWERS ARE BETWEEN 98 AND 112 METERS TALL AND ARE DEDICATED TO THE APOSTLES JAMES THE LESSER, BARTHOLOMEW, THOMAS AND PHILIP (LEFT TO RIGHT). JOSEP MARIA SUBIRACHS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FA Ç ADE SCULPTURE.

9. THE NATIVITY FA Ç ADE (NORTHEAST): DEPICTS THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AND IS THE ONLY FA Ç ADE TO BE COMPLETED DURING GAUDI'S LIFETIME. ITS FOUR EXISTING BELLTOWERS ARE BETWEEN 98 AND 112 METERS TALL AND ARE DEDICATED TO THE SAINTS BARNABAS, JUDE, SIMON AND MATTHEW (LEFT TO RIGHT). TEN ADDITIONAL BELLTOWERS (98-112 METERS HIGH) ARE PLANNED THOUGH THESE WILL BE OVERWHELMED BY SIX TOWERS THAT WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY TALLER. FOUR OF THESE TOWERS WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE EVANGELISTS, ONE TO THE VIRGIN MARY, AND THE GRANDEST, RISING TO 170 METERS, TO JESUS CHRIST.