Antoni Gaud?/title><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../wikistatic.css"></head> <body bgcolor='#FFFFFF'> <div id=topbar><table width='98%' border=0><tr><td><a href="http://www.wacklepedia.com/" title="Wacklepedia">Wacklepedia Home Page</a> | <a href="Antoni_Gaud? title="Antoni Gaud?></a></b> | <a href="../../abc.html">Index</a></td> <td align=right nowrap></td></tr></table></div> <br> <center> </center> <div id=article2><div align="right"><table border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" align="right"><tr> </tr></table></div><h1>Antoni Gaud?/h1><table align="right"> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><small><em>Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece, La <A HREF="../../s/sa/sagrada_familia_1.html" title="Sagrada Familia">Sagrada Familia</A>\</em></small></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><small><em>The Casa Milà, in the <A HREF="../../e/ei/eixample.html" title="Eixample">Eixample</A>, <A HREF="../../b/ba/barcelona.html" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</A></em></small></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><small><em>View of the <A HREF="../../p/pa/park_guell.html" title="Park Guell">Parc Güell</A>, <A HREF="../../e/el/el_carmel.html" title="El Carmel">El Carmel</A>, <A HREF="../../b/ba/barcelona.html" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</A></em></small></td> </tr> <tr><td> <br> </td></tr> </table><p> <strong>Antoni Gaud?/strong> (he is sometimes referred to by the Spanish translation of his name, i.e. <em>Antonio Gaud?/em>), (<A HREF="../../j/ju/june_25.html" title="June 25">25 June</A> <A HREF="../../1/18/1852.html" title="1852">1852</A> - <A HREF="../../j/ju/june_10.html" title="June 10">10 June</A> <A HREF="../../1/19/1926.html" title="1926">1926</A>) was a <A HREF="../../c/ca/catalonia.html" title="Catalonia">Catalan</A> <A HREF="../ar/architecture_1.html" title="Architecture">architect</A> who is famous for his ground-breaking, modernistic designs.<p> He was born at <A HREF="../../r/re/reus.html" title="Reus">Reus</A> and educated, and worked all his life in <A HREF="../../b/ba/barcelona.html" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</A>, <A HREF="../../c/ca/catalonia.html" title="Catalonia">Catalonia</A>, <A HREF="../../s/sp/spain.html" title="Spain">Spain</A>.<p> His first works were influenced by <A HREF="../../g/go/gothic_architecture.html" title="Gothic architecture">gothic</A> and <A HREF="../../c/ca/catalonia.html" title="Catalonia">Catalan</A> architectural modes but he developed his own distinct sculptural style.<br> In the first years of his career, Gaudí was strongly influenced by a French architect <A HREF="../../e/eu/eugene_viollet_le_duc.html" title="Eug?e Viollet-le-Duc">Eugene Viollet-le-Duc</A> who promoted the return to an evolved form of <A HREF="../../g/go/gothic_architecture.html" title="Gothic architecture">gothic architecture</A>. <p> But Gaudí surpassed Viollet-le-Duc, and created buildings and designs that were highly original - irregular, fantastically shaped with intricate <A HREF="../ar/art_nouveau_1.html" title="Art Nouveau">art nouveau</A>-like patterns. Some of his masterworks, most notably, <i><A HREF="../../s/sa/sagrada_familia_1.html" title="Sagrada Familia">La Sagrada Família</A></i> have an almost hallucinatory power.<p> He brings the parabolic arch, the organic shapes of nature and <A HREF="../../u/un/underwater.html" title="Underwater">underwater</A> into architecture. He also uses the Catalonian <em>trencad?</em> technique of broken tiles to decorate surfaces.<p> He was ridiculed by his contemporaries, at his beginning being supported only by the rich industrialist Eusebi G?ll. His fellow citizens referred the <em>Casa Mil?/em> as <em>La Pedrera</em> ("the quarry"). <A HREF="../../g/ge/george_orwell.html" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</A>, who stayed at Barcelona during the <A HREF="../../s/sp/spanish_civil_war.html" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</A>, very much disliked his work.<p> As time passed, though, his work became recognised and he is considered one of Catalonia's best and brightest. Japanese tourists are especially fond of his work.<p> Politically, he was a fervent Catalan nationalist. (He was once arrested for speaking in Catalan in a situation considered illegal by authorities.) In his later years, he left secular work and devoted all his time to Catholic religion and his <em>Sagrada Familia</em>.<p> He was run down by a <A HREF="../../t/tr/tram.html" title="Tram">tramway</A> and his corpse was thought a tramp's because of his careless attire and the obscurity of his last years.<p> Though acknowledged as a genius, there is a theory that Gaudí was <A HREF="../../c/co/color_blindness.html" title="Color blindness">color blind</A> and that it was only in collaboration with Josep Maria Jujol, an architect 27 years his junior whom he acknowledged as a genius in his own right, that he produced his greatest works.<p> Gaudi's major works in chronological order : <ul><li> <i>Casa Vicens</i> (1878-1880) </li><li> <i><A HREF="../../p/pa/palau_guell.html" title="Palau Guell">Palau G?ll</A></i> (1885-1889) </li><li> <i>Colegio de Santa Maria de Jes?</i> (1889-1894) </li><li> <i>Santa Coloma de Cervell?/i> (1898-1915) </li><li> <i>Casa Calvet</i> (1899-1904) </li><li> <i><A HREF="../../c/ca/casa_batllo.html" title="Casa Batll?>Casa Batll?/A></i> (1905-1907) </li><li> <i><A HREF="../../c/ca/casa_mila.html" title="Casa Mil?>Casa Mil?/A></i> (<em>La Pedrera</em>) (1905-1907) </li><li> <i><A HREF="../../p/pa/park_guell.html" title="Park Guell">Parc G?ll</A></i> (1900-1914) </li><li> <i><A HREF="../../s/sa/sagrada_familia_1.html" title="Sagrada Familia">Sagrada Família</A></i> (1884-1926)<p> </li></ul>He left a draft of an aborted project for a <A HREF="../../s/sk/skyscraper.html" title="Skyscraper">sky-scraper</A> Hotel Attraction in <A HREF="../../n/ne/new_york.html" title="New York">New York</A>. It was the inspiration for a reconstruction project for the <A HREF="../../w/wo/world_trade_center.html" title="World Trade Center">World Trade Center</A> after <A HREF="../../s/se/september_11__2001_attacks.html" title="September 11, 2001 attacks">September 11, 2001</A>.<p> Many of these works are found in the <A HREF="../../e/ei/eixample.html" title="Eixample">Eixample</A> district of Barcelona, and three of them, the Parc Güell, Palau Güell, and Casa Milà, are <A HREF="../../u/un/united_nations_educational__scientific_and_cultural_orga.html" title="United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization">UNESCO</A> <A HREF="../../w/wo/world_heritage_sites.html" title="World Heritage Sites">World Heritage Sites</A>.<p> A process to get Gaud?<A HREF="../../c/ca/canonization.html" title="Canonization">declared blessed</A> by the <A HREF="../../c/ca/catholicism.html" title="Catholicism">Catholic church</A> is being promoted since <A HREF="../../1/19/1992.html" title="1992">1992</A> by a secular association.<p> See also: <A HREF="../ar/architecture_1.html" title="Architecture">architecture</A><p> <A NAME="External links"><H3>External links</H3> <ul><li> <A HREF="http://dmoz.org/Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/G/Gaud%ed,_Antoni/" class="external">Gaud?category</A> at <A HREF="../../o/op/open_directory_project.html" title="Open Directory Project">DMoz</A>. </li><li> <A HREF="http://www.gaudiclub.com/esp/e_links/e_beat7.asp" class="external">Asociaci? pro Beatificaci? de Antonio Gaud?/A>\n </li></ul> </div><br><div id=footer><table border=0><tr><td> </td></tr></table></div><br><script type="text/javascript" src="../../googlead.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <br><script language="javascript" src="../../footer.js"></script><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-57414-7";urchinTracker();</script></body>  </html>