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Color in certain places has the great value of making the
outlines and structural planes seem more energetic
Born- 25 June, 1852 in Reus, Catalonia, Spain
At the age of 35,
1887
At the age of 68,
1920Died- 10 June, 1926 (aged
73)
Born to industrial boiler maker Francesc Gaudi and Antonia
Cornet Bertran
Raised as a Catholic
Had four passions : Architecture, nature, religion and Catalonia
Extensive use of stained glass, wrought iron, ceramics, stucco.
Focused on models and facades
Artist, designer, craftsman
Experienced many periods of architecture- orientalist, neo-
gothic, naturalist(art nouveau or modernisme).
El Capricho de Comillas (1883-85)
Máximo Díaz de Quijano
Gaudi’s first house. Experimental Modernism.
The design of this building by Gaudí combines music and architecture.
Highlight is the cylindrical tower. Glass windows also play an important
role.
The design of the building is established around a long ground floor
with up two floors, and down a basement for garage and services
The exterior of the building is characterized by the use of bricks, stone, in
the lower part, of open-face brick adorned with fringes of glazed ceramics
representing sunflowers and leaves on the rest, and the superimposition of
the curved surface facing the straight surface.
Tower breaks the unity of the rest of the
building.
Casa Vicens(1883-88)
Barcelona
the house of
Manuel Vicens i
Montaner ; it is a
residential project
made for a rich
family owning a
ceramic factory.
Decoration appears an explosion of imagination and brilliant ideas.
Constructed of undressed stone, rough red bricks and colored
ceramics.
Moorish inspiration
The building has different volumes separated by angles
The house also had a garden(now demolished), it had a fountain built
with open brick work .
Garden was surrounded by stucco wall.
The interior atmosphere of parts of the building has some influence of Islamic
architecture, this influence is strongly manifested into the room named the "fumoir"
(Smoke room).Ornamentation of ceiling is related to plants and flowers showing nice
color contrasts.
One of the three buildings that Gaudi made
outside Catalonia
Influenced by Neo-Gothic style
The edifice includes a basement, ground floor,
three more floors and an attic or loft.
Ground floor was used for business and the
upper floors as residence.
The roof is a inclined slate roof with six skylights
A tower at each corner of the building, emphasizing its neo-gothic
character. The main and right lateral facades are surrounded by a
trench that improves the illumination and ventilation of the basement.
St. George slaying the dragon- top of entrance
The building has an inclined The windows on all four sides of Casa Botines are
identical. They decrease in size as they go up the building.
A system of cast-iron pillars in a frame structure, allowing for a more open plan,
without the need for the load-bearing walls to distribute it.
Died in an accident.
Seven of his projects are declared as World heritage sites by UNESCO
They are: the Park Güell, the Palau Güell and the Casa Milà; and
the Nativity facade, the crypt and the apse of the Sagrada Família,
The Casa Vicens and the Casa Batlló in Barcelona, together with
the crypt of the Colònia Güell in Santa Coloma de Cervelló.
During Spanish Civil War (1936) his studio was burnt down; plans, models
and documents were destroyed.