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16. Sept. 2021 · Provided to YouTube by Symphonic DistributionVisions of Gaudi (feat. George Mraz & Al Foster) · Steve Kuhn · Tom Harrell · George Mraz · Al FosterSeasons of ...
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29. Okt. 2020 · A guide to the architect Antoni Gaudí's life and career, from his early projects to his work on the iconic Sagrada Família.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet [3] ( / ɡaʊˈdi / gow-DEE, / ˈɡaʊdi / GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; [4] 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. [5] . Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style.
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- Who Was Antoni Gaudí?
- Early Years
- Development as A Professional Architect
- The Mature Artist
- Final Work and Death
The son of a coppersmith, Antoni Gaudí was in 1852 and took to architecture at a young age. He attended school in Barcelona, the city that would become home to most of his great works. Gaudí was part of the Catalan Modernista movement, eventually transcending it with his nature-based organic style.
Gaudí was born in Catalonia on the Mediterranean coast of Spain on June 25, 1852. He showed an early interest in architecture and went to study in Barcelona — Spain's most modern city at the time — circa 1870. After his studies were interrupted by military service, Gaudí graduated from the Provincial School of Architecture in 1878.
Upon graduation, Gaudí initially worked in the artistic vein of his Victorian predecessors, but he soon developed his own style, composing his works with juxtapositions of geometric masses and animating the surfaces with patterned brick or stone, bright ceramic tiles and floral or reptilian metalwork. The salamander in Park Güell, for instance, is ...
After 1902, Gaudí's designs began to defy conventional stylistic classification, and he created a type of structure known as equilibrated — that is, it could stand on its own without internal bracing, external buttressing, etc. The primary functional elements of this system were columns that tilted to employ diagonal thrusts and lightweight tile va...
Increasingly pious, after 1910, Gaudí abandoned nearly all other work to focus on the Sagrada Familia, which he had begun in 1883, cloistering himself onsite and living in its workshop. While employing Gaudí's equilibrated methods, the church would borrow from the cathedral-Gothic and Art Nouveau styles but present them in a form beyond recognition...
15. März 2017 · Visions of Space – Antoni Gaudí: God’s Architect (2003) The BBC series Visions of Space was a three part documentary narrated by the celebrated art critic Robert Hughes, it focused on the work of three of the most defining European architects of the modern era: Antoni Gaudí, Albert Speer and Mies van der Rohe.
