Gaudi was also a rather unusual person. Factrum Talks about the great architect in a selection of exciting facts from his biography.

Antonio Gaudi.

1. Love for botany created architect

The weak, rheumatism of the child, Antonio Gaudi early discovered the world of fantasies, learned to carefully observe and understand the language of nature. This served as the basis for many images and ideas of the young architect and gave him a feeling of the Motherland (he had retained the loyalty to his childhood friends, and his assistants mainly came from Reuse, Tarragona of the surrounding area; it served for Gaudi more than sufficient recommendation).

As a child, Gaudi was seriously carried away by Botany. He was sincerely interested in plants and insects, pollinating them. His final school essay the Spanish architect dedicated bees. Later, his first study project in the Barcelona School of Architecture was the gate of the cemetery, which should be able to separate the world of dead from the world of living.

2. Hate direct lines and events

Gaudi just hated closed and geometrically the right spaces, and the walls brought it to madness. He avoided straight lines, considered them the span of a person, and the circles for him were to give birth to God. These vital principles helped to leave him after death eighteen beautiful architectural creations, each of which attracts great attention to tourists.



Gaudi had different eyes: one was black, the other is far-odd, but he did not like glasses and said: "The Greeks did not wear points." Therefore, therefore, Gaudi's habitual drawings for all architects looked somewhat differently. All its projects, from the tile on the pavement, benches and gates and to the Cathedral of the Holy Family (Sagrada Sagradia) Antonio designed in the form of peculiar layouts, which with the help of mirrors turned into three-dimensional models.

3. Love all life

Gaudi was never married. For all his life, Gaudi is known only one woman who architect provided notes of attention - Josephine Moro, who worked as a teacher in the working settlement. She did not answer the reciprocity and Gaudi with his head went to Catholicism.

In his youth, the architect was a zealous antiklerikal, wore dear clothes, followed the appearance. In recent years, the architect held as a hermit, completely devoting all his strength and energy to the creation of the immortal cathedral of the Holy Family, who became the highest incarnation of not only his unique talent, but also of the Izdnoy faith. By the way, he lived his last years in his life, leaving his usual housing, spreading to the construction site in Spartan conditions.

4. Talent in everything

Gaudi was not only an architect, he was also an artist in the highest sense of the word. He designed not only buildings, but also amazing furniture, bizarre lattices of fences, gates and railings. His striking ability to think and feel in three dimensions explained inheritance: Father and grandfather - Blacksmiths, one grandfather's grandfather - Bondar, another sailor - "People of space and location." His father was a medical officer, and this fact undoubtedly influenced Gaudi addiction to the artistic cast. Many of the striking Creations of Gaudi are made of wrought iron, often with his own hands.



For example, Gaudi's hands, together with the Chernoremaker, Zhuan Munna, was made garden benches from artificial stone. It was designed for Guell Park. In the original design of this unique bench, everything that put Gaudi into each of his work is combined: here you have an unusual proportion, and a smooth drawing of lines inspired by organic forms. And most importantly, in accordance with the principles of art modern, all these aesthetically are combined with the strict implementation of purely functional requirements for ergonomics.

5. Construction for a period of 140 years

After ridiculous death in 1926, 73-year-old Gaudi under the wheels of the tram, he was buried in Kripte Sagrada surname. The construction of the cathedral was not broken, but the rate declined noticeably. And in 1936 the war broke out in Spain and the construction was broken for a short time.

Anarchists destroyed almost all drawings and layouts left by Gaudi for the construction of his brainchild, having arranged a fire in workshops. But the construction of the temple continued in 20 years and lasts until now for the means and donations of people. Currently, construction is headed by the Catalan architect and painter Zhuzep Maria Subirax.


Interestingly, the famous English writer George Orwell reacted to the act of vandalism quite positively. The cathedral, in his opinion, was generally blown up. Orwell considered the creation of the architect with the most ugly facilities in the world, and the protruding spiers gloatingly called the bottles of Portwine. Fortunately, not everyone agreed with this opinion.


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Salvador Dali, on the contrary, admired by the works of the architect and even organized in 1956 in Guele Park Honoring Gaudi. This allowed us to collect additional funds for the continuation of the construction of Sagrada surname. The love of the whole life of Gaudi continues to live.

It is impossible to present a romantic Paris without the Gustava Eiffel Tower, Eternal Rome without Colosseum, London without Big Ben, and sultry Barcelona without buildings Antonio Gaudi. The Great Master and Genius of Architecture created the appearance of the city for which the whole world will now know. Working for the benefit of people almost for a scentual, removed to the pleasure of rich townspeople, he devoted his whole life without a rest art, graduating his way in poverty. However, the masters talent and the memory of him are captured forever in stone.

Antonio Gaudi, Architect: Biography

The future famous architect appeared on June 25, 1852, according to one data, this happened in the town of Reus near Tarragona, in others - in the Ridom. His father was called Francesco Gaudi-I-Ceerra, and Mother - Anthony Kornet-and-Bertrand. He was the fifth child in the family. The name was received in honor of his mother, and the dual surname of Gaudi-I-Kornet acquired on the old Spanish tradition.

Antonio's father belonged to the offacarious blacksmiths, he was engaged not only for a forging, but also a chasing on copper, and the mother was a regular housewife dedicated to the upbringing of children. The son quickly joined the understanding of the objective beauty of the world, and at the same time loved drawing. Perhaps it is to the father's handicraft forge who goes the origins of Gaudi's creativity. Heavy tests have fallen out of the mother of the architect, almost all the children died in infancy. In his memoirs, she said that Antonio was proud to survive, despite difficult kinds and illness. The thought of his special role and destination he carried through his life.

After the death of all brothers and sisters, the mother, in 1879, Antonio, together with the Father and a small niece settled in Barcelona.

Study in Reus

Basic formation A. Gaudi received in Reus. His academic performance was the middle, the only thing he knew just brilliantly is geometry. With peers communicated with little and the noisy boy's society preferred secluded walks. However, he still had friends - José Ribera and Eduardo Toda. The latter, in particular, recalled that Gaudi did not like a cramp especially, and the frequent attacks of the disease made it difficult to study.

In the field of art, he first showed himself in 1867, when he tried his hand at the design of the theater scene as an artist. With this task, Antonio Gaudi coped brilliantly. However, it was already then manilated architecture - "painting in stone", and he was drawing as a passing craft.

Study in Barcelona and Formation

After graduation in 1869, Gaudi's school in Native Reus had the opportunity to continue his education in the higher educational institution. However, he decided to wait a bit and well prepare. To this end, in 1869, he went to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he was first made in the architectural bureau for the post of draftsman. In parallel, the 17-year-old young man signed up for the preparatory courses, on which she studied for 5 years, which is quite a long time. In the period from 1870 to 1882, he worked under the leadership of Architects F. Villar and E. Sala: Participated in various contests, served small works (lanterns, fences, etc.), studied crafts and even designed furniture for his own home.

At this time, Europe was in power of a neo-neutic style, and the young architect was no exception. He enthusiastically followed him to ideals, as well as the ideas of neo-food enthusiasts. This period, when the style of architect Gaudi was formed, his special and unique look at the world. He fully supported the Declaration of Art History D. Reskin that decorativeness is the beginning of architecture. His creative style of the year has become more and more unique and distant from the generally accepted traditions. The provincial school of Architecture Gaudi graduated in 1878

Architect Gaudi: Interesting Facts

  • In the student years, Gaudi consisted of NUI Guerrer in society ("New Hospital"). Young people were engaged in those decorated the carnival platforms and played parodies of historical and political topics from the lives of famous Catalans.
  • The decision at the final exam in the school of Barcelona was taken collegially (by most votes). At the end, the director turned to his colleagues and said: "Gentlemen, in front of us or a genius, or crazy." Gaudi replied to this replica: "Looks like I am now an architect."
  • The father and son of Gaudi were vegetarians, pure air adherents and a special diet according to Dr. Knaipa.
  • Once, Gaudi entered the order of a choir society with a request to make a chorugwe (Banner with the faces of Christ, the Virgin or Saints) for religious processes. For all estimates, it should have been extremely difficult, but the architect showed a mixture and instead of ordinary tree used a plug.
  • Since 2005, Antonio Gaudi's creation has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Register.

First job

The financial position of the student was rather fragile. From a family from Reus support did not have to wait, and the work of the draftsman brought a very modest income. Gaudi barely reduced ends meet. He had no close to loved ones, almost absent friends, but was talent, which began to notice. At that moment, the creativity of the architect Gaudi took place stage of formation, he was far from his search and believed that experiments were the lot of professionals. In 1870, to the restoration of the monastery in the departure of Catalonia, the architects of the most different categories were attracted. Young Gaudi sent his sketch of the coat of arms of the monastery of the monastery to the project contest and won. This work was the first creative victory and brought him a good fee.

What, if not luck, consider the acquaintance of Gaudi with Johan Marrelev in the living room of a rich entrepreneur Guel? The owner of the textile factories presented it as the most promising architect not only Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut also in Catalonia. Markers agreed and suggested in addition to his friendship. He was not just a famous Spanish architect. Gaudi has established relations with a professor of architecture, whose opinion in this field was considered authoritative, and the skill was brilliant. Acquaintance first with Guell, and then with Markethel, it became a fateful for him.

Early work

Under the influence of the new mentor, the first projects appear, stylistically relating to the early modern, richly decorated and bright. Among them, resembling a gingerbread house Vicens (residential, private), which you see on the photo further.

His project, Gaudi, graduated from 1878, almost in parallel with the end of study and receiving an architect's diploma. The house has an almost right quadrangular shape, the symmetry of which breaks only the dining room and smoking room. Gaudi used a lot of decorative elements in addition to color ceramic tiles (tribute to the business of the building owner), namely: turrets, erkers, protrusions of facades, balconies. Feeling influence of the Spanish-Arabic style Mudehar. Even in this early work, the desire is traced to create not just a house, but a real architectural ensemble, characteristic of Gaudi's whole creativity. Architect and his houses are pride not only Barcelona. Gaudi worked outside the Catalan capital.

In 1883-1885 In the city of Komilelas, Cantabria provinces was built by El Capricho (in the photo below). Luxurious summer mansion, linedside outside with ceramic tiles and brick yards. Not so faithful and quaint, but already unique and bright.

Then there was a house of Calvet and a school at the monastery of Saint Teresa in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe House of Botinosis and the Neo-neutic Episcopal Palace in Leone.

Meeting with Guuel.

Meeting Gaudi and Guela - this lucky case when fate itself pushes people to each other. The house of the textile service and the patron collected the entire intellectual color of the capital of Catalonia. However, he himself knew not only in business and politics, but also in art, painting. Having received an excellent education, an entrepreneurial vein from nature and at the same time modesty, he actively contributed to the promotion of social projects and the development of art. Perhaps without his help as an architect Gaudi and would not take place either his creative path would have formed otherwise.

There are two versions of the architect and patrons. According to the first fateful meeting occurred in Paris, at the World Exhibition of 1878. In one of the pavilions, he drew attention to the ambitious project of the young architect - the working village of Mataro. The second version is less official. After graduation, Gaudi was taken for any work in order to improve the financial situation and at the same time gaining experience. He had to make even decorate a shill in gloves store. Behind this occupation and found Guell. He recognized the brilliant talent at once, and soon Gaudi became a frequent guest in his house. The first work he entrusted him was just the settlement of Mataro. And if you believe the second version, it was from the supply of the industrial to the mock in Paris. Soon the future great architect Gaudi engaged in the construction of the Palace of Guel (1885-1890). In this project, the main features of its style were reflected in this project - the connection of structural and decorative elements among themselves.

Having supported Gaudi at the very beginning of his creative career, subsequently Guell took him down throughout his life.

Park Guela

A bright, picturesque and unusual park at the top of Barcelona was called in honor of Euseby Guela - the main initiator of its construction. This is one of the most interesting works of Gaudi, he worked on the creation of the ensemble from 1900 to 1914. Initially, it was planned to create a living green zone in the style of the city-Garden - the concept, fashionable in those days in England. To this end, Guel was acquired by an area of \u200b\u200b15 hectares. The plots were sold poorly, the territory far from the city center did not particularly attracted the attention of the inhabitants of Barcelona.

Works began in 1901 and were carried out in three stages. Initially, the hillside slopes and their arrangement were conducted, then roads were laid, pavilions at the entrance and the surrounding walls were built, at the final stage, a famous winding bench was created. Not one architect worked on all this. Gaudi attracted Julieu Baleven and Fensko Berenger. The house built on the project of the latter was failed to sell. Therefore, Guell suggested living in Haudi himself. The architect bought it in 1906 and lived there until 1925 in the building there is a house-museum of his name. The project was economically not quite successful, and Guell eventually sold his city hall, which transformed him into the park. Now this is one of the business cards of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe photo of this park can be seen on all avenues, postcards, magnets, etc.

House Balo

The House of Textile Magnate Josepa Balo-I-Kasanovas was built in 1877, and in 1904 the architect Gaudi began to restructure, whose work was popular by that time and are known far beyond the city. He retained the initial structure of the building, which was adjacent to two neighboring buildings by side walls, and dramatically changed the two facades (in the photo - the main floor), as well as relevant the belt and the lower floor, creating the author's furniture for them, the basement, attic, and a speed roof terrace added.

Light mines inside were combined into the yard platform, and this made it possible to improve not only lighting, but also ventilation. Many historians and art historians adhere to the opinions about the fact that the Balo House is the beginning of a new one in the work of the stage master. From this point on, the architectural solutions of Gaudi are becoming exclusively by his own vision of the world, without regard to any architectural styles.

House Milo

An unusual residential building Master created within 4 years (1906-1910), now it is one of the main attractions of the capital of Catalonia (Spain, Barcelona). The house built by the architect Gaudi at the intersection of the street Carrer de Provença and the Passeig de Gràcia boulevard, became his last secular work, after which he fully dedicated himself to the temple of Sagrada surname.

The building differs not only by external originality and innovative internal project for its time. The thoughtful ventilation system eliminates the use of air conditioners, and for the change of the situation, the owners of apartments can freely rearrange interroom partitions, in addition, an underground garage is equipped. The building has a reinforced concrete design without bearing and supporting walls that keeps on the bearing columns. The photo below is the courtyard of the house and the original wavy roof with windows.

The inhabitants of Barcelona called the "quarry" building for the heavy design and the kind of facade, since they did not immediately imbued with the feeling of the Gaudi beautiful to this creation.

The architect and his houses became a real decoration of the city. Scattered in different parts, they create the impression of the integrity of the capital of Catalonia. Wherever I look, everywhere you will feel the presence of her chief architect: from heavy lights to majestic domes and columns, unthinkable in the form of facades of buildings.

Sagrada Família Sagrada Família

The Barcelonian Church of the Holy Family is one of the most famous long-terroy worldwide. Since 1882, it is erected solely on the donations of citizens. The building has become the most famous project of the Master and clearly demonstrates the fact that the exclusive, talented and unique A. Gaudi architect. The Cathedral of the Holy Family was consecrated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, June 7, and on the same day it was officially recognized as ready for daily worship services.

The idea of \u200b\u200bits creation appeared in 1874, and already in 1881, thanks to donations, a plot was acquired in the EshamPla region, at that time located a few kilometers from Barcelona. Initially, the project was engaged in the architect Villar. He saw a new temple in the style of neo-neo-neochic basilica in the form of a cross, which form five longitudinal and three transverse neopa. However, by the end of 1882, Villar, due to disagreements with the customer, left the construction site, giving way to A. Gaudi.

Work on the project of his whole life was stages. So, in the period from 1883 to 1889, he completely completed the crypt. Then he decided to make serious changes to the initial project, and it was connected with an unprecedented major anonymous donation. Above the facade of Christmas, Gaudi began work in 1892, and in 1911 the draft second, the construction of which began after his death was created.

When the Great Master did not, the work continued his close comanter Domainek Sugrancess, who since 1902 helped Gaudi. Great architects remember the world along large-scale and ambitious, unique projects. Such became Gaudi, who dedicated the temple of the Holy Family more than 40 years of his life. He experimented for years with the shape of bells, to the smallest detail, he thought over the building structure, which was to become a grandiose body under the influence of the wind passing through certain holes in the tower, and he imagined the inner decoration as a multicolor and bright psalm into the glory of the Lord. In the photo below - the type of temple from the inside.

The construction of the temple is kept to this day, not so long ago, Spain officially announced that it was unlikely to finish it before 2026.

A. Gaudi devoted all his life with the architecture without a rest. Despite the popularity and fame that came to him, he remained modest and lonely. Unconscious people argued that he was rude, arrogant and unpleasant, while a few close friends responded about him as a beautiful and true friend. Over the years, Gaudi gradually went to Catholicism and faith, while the lifestyle has changed radically. He gave their own earnings and savings to the temple, in the crypt of which was buried on June 12, 1926.

Who is he really? The famous Spanish architect Gaudi is the legacy of world architecture, her separate chapter. He is a person who has refuted all authorities and creating styles outside the famous art. The Catalans of His moor, and the rest of the world admires them.

A man suffering from rheumatism who prevented him to enjoy life. Lost all his family and lived alone, nor when was not married. Who is he? Ascetic or a limited person's disease? He is Antonio Gaudi-great artist, architect! Antoni Gaudi-I-Kournet was born on June 25, 1852 in the town of Reus, in Catalonia. Four children grew in the family, Antonio became the youngest. The master notes that it was in childhood in a father's workshop to him, inspiration came.

In 1970, Gaudi entered the provincial architecture school in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhich he successfully graduated in 1978. From 1970 to 1882, the future master carried out drawings in the master of Emilio Sala and Francisco Villara, developed drawings of small elements of urban architecture. The main passion of Gaudi becomes creating for your own home.

In Europe, at this time reigned neo-neo-style style. This periodic is characterized by the rapid beginning of the reconstruction and recovery of churches and architectural monuments. It also forms an individual and unique undercite Gaudi.

Some of the first glorified projects are built by an elegant house Vissa in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEl Capriccho in Cantabria, as well as a pseudo-fertile house Calvet (Barcelona). These houses are combining wealth and modern, uniqueness and uniqueness.

By coincidence, Antonio Gaudi becomes a textile magnate Euseby Guell. Instead of friendship, Gaudi gets the opportunity to not pay for the estimates of its projects, and Guell extraordinary and extraordinary creations. Gaudi is building for the Guele Chapel's family, wine cellar, houses and fantastic parks, such as the fantastic Park Guel (Barcelona).

It was during this period that Gaudi becomes the most fashionable architect, who had customers, ready to spend all their state on the bizarre form of the wizard architectural objects. Barcelona was greatly transformed thanks to the "fluid" architecture of Gaudi. Bright examples are the house of Mila, the fantasy house of Balo.

Scary and Vlepa had the death of the architect. On June 7, 1926, 73-year-old Gaudi went to Sant Felip-Nere Church. He was a parishioner of this church. On the way it stifles the tram. The cabings, accepting Gaudi for the beggar old man, refused to be taken to the hospital. As a result, he was taken to the hospital for beggars, where they had a medical care appropriate for this layer. Only every other day, he found a chamber of the Cathedral of Sagrada-Family Mosen Hil Pares and Vilasau. But the state of the master was so bad that the subsequent treatment could not help him.

The most important architectural appearance of the capital of Catalonia had the magical influence of the creativity of the Great Master Gaudi. Architect Antonio Gaudi and Cornet (Antoni Gaudi I Cornet) was born on June 25, 1852 in the city of Reus Catalan Province of Tarragona. His parents were Kovelschikov, and the young genius often helped her father and grandfather, admiring the virtuoso work of their hands in the manufacture of copper products. In love with the nature and supervisory antonio since childhood, attracted the perfection of forms, the game of flowers and lines. The love of everything naturally found the exit in the work of Gaudi - the stamps of the masters, ceramics, wood and wrought iron.

In total, in the architectural heritage of Gaudi 18 structures, most of them are in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bidentifying the entire appearance of the city. He was in love with this city, spoke in Catalan and in the culture of his people screams inexhaustible inspiration for creativity. Among the most famous works by Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona - House Vienes, School of Teresianok, House Boresguard, Palace Guell, Balo House, Mila House, Park Guell and, of course, the church of the Holy Family.

The mysterious symbol of the city - the church of the Holy Family

The temple is a "branded sign" Barcelona, \u200b\u200ba generally recognized symbol of the city. His majestic towers produce a truly unforgettable impression, the building itself is full of secrets and encoded Gaudi messages. But, perhaps, the main mystery of this masterpiece, which was conceived as the temple of the atonement of sins, in his incompleteness.

The building was designed in the Gothic style, the traces of it are traced in Crypt and Apse, but then the genius of improvisation changed the idea, experimenting with styles and creating his unique architectural handwriting. When creating the church, Gaudi almost did not use the drawings, he his own sketches did, and therefore a lot of time went to work. Above the temple of Sagrada, the name of the architect worked for forty three years, and without completing construction. In 1926, he died, hitting the tram at the crossroads of Gran Via and Bailen.

In 1936, Gaudi's workshops were burned, and only after 20 years of work on the construction of the temple resumed, already in small pieces of photographs and sketches and, of course, without the magical improvisation, which was inherent only by Gaudi. Construction of the cathedral continues so far, steadily overcoming financial and other difficulties. The church of the Holy Family, located in the heart of the city on Majorca Street, 401, attracts thousands of tourists every year, who, admiring the Gathing of the Gaudi project, are trying to solve him ...

Balo House (Casa Batllo) in Barcelona

House Balo ("Batlo", "Batlo. » ) - One of the numerous masterpieces Antonio Gaudi, an elegant sample of Modern style, so common in Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century. The Balo House was built in 1904-1906 for Paseo de Gracia, 43. Gaudi reconstructed the house, applying its corporate identity: multicolor and sparkling mosaic, lines curves, fancy expressiveness, fancy balconies, fantastic roof with tile in the form of fish scales.

Local name at home - Casa Dels Ossos ("Bone House"). It really recognizes the images of bones and internal organs of a kind of giant mysterious animal. The roof of the house is covered with arches, which creates associations from the dragon back. According to the generally accepted opinion, the round item on the left of the center ending the turret with a cross is the sword George Victorious (Saint George - the patron of Catalonia), stunned in the back of the dragon.

Mila House (Casa Mila, La Pedrera)

Mila House in Barcelona is one of the best examples of Antonio Gaudi architectural concept. Someone his facade resembles incoming waves, and someone is a stone mountain with caves. Barcelonians are jokingly and called him: "La Pedrera" ("Kamennyna").

Gaudi, working on the construction of this house at the corner of the busy Avenue Paseo de Gracia and the streets of the province, as usual, scream inspiration from nature. The concept of modernity here is something living, fluid, moving, you can distinguish the caves, the sea, the underwater world. The view from the roof on Barcelona is also amazing, there are no fender railing, and the gardens and mysterious figures seem to hang over the abyss.

In 1984, Mila's house was declared UNESCO World Heritage, and today on the top floor there is a museum dedicated to Antonio Gaudi, the remaining floors are given to elite housing.

Park Guell


Another famous Gaudi project is Guell Park, located outside the Lesseps Square, Olot. The park was built from 1900 to 1914, but, unfortunately, as a temple of Sagrada surname, was not completed.

Park - Joint project of Gaudi and the entrepreneur Guelle - was the idea of \u200b\u200bquite promising: on the slope of one of the hills of Barcelona Plain, it was planned to build a green town for recreation of rich citizens. However, the economic crisis hit, and the construction had to freeze. Gaudi managed only to partially implement his dreams to life - one wall of the alleged park was built.

At the entrance to the park you are found two cozy "gingerbread" house made following the example of serfs, separated by spectacular iron gates (in one of these houses it was subsequently settled by the Gaudi himself). Up leads a staircase decorated with sculptures of phantasmagoric animals covered with mosaic, among them - a characteristic Lizard Gaudi, a symbol of good luck and well-being, occurring in almost every work of the master. The staircase leads to the spacious "string of a hundred columns", the highlight of which is that the roof is at the same time a balcony of a winding form, and the colonnade cornice is the back of a continuous bench, which fade the entire upper area. From here, one of the best types of city opens.

Park Guell is considered one of the works of Gaudi, where his imagination was mostly manifested. In the house where the architect lived in 1906-1926, the Museum of His name is now open.

Vicens House (Casa Vicens)

One of the first works by Antonio Gaudi is Vienes House, which is located on Carolinas Street 18-24. In 1878, the young entrepreneur Manuel Vicens ordered the construction of his house at the time the novice architect Antonio Gaudi. For the reasons that do not depend on it, construction was postponed for 5 years, and it was a salvation for young Gaudi, who simply did not know how to design a house: the construction site was quite narrow, and it was necessary to build in a number of almost "fit" to a friend Buildings.

As a result, the fantasy of Gaudi could not get to the fullest, the house was built very simply, without frills and curves of lines. To revive the image, the architect decided to decorate the facade of the building using numerous erkers and tiled decor. The base of the walls of natural stone was supplemented with an induced brick finish. However, the main attractiveness of the house gave a motley tile of walls and windows and a crazy mixing of styles: Gaudi used techniques of different traditions, combining an incompatible, coffer tile yellow flowers, installing Mauritanian turrets on the roof and decorating the garden to the forged fence in Art Nouveau. The result is an excellent model of modernism and the evidence of the eternal genius Antonio Gaudi.

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Currently, few people have not heard about the architect and Sagrada Familia, his most famous work. Catalans wake Gaudi, because thanks to him, Barcelona acquired his unique style.

Biography Antonio Gaudi. Reveals a lot of interesting moments about his life, despite the fact that the whole life of the genius was a rather closed man, practically no friends. The architecture was the main meaning of his life, the elements in which he did not give anyone to overlook, often extinguished hard and cruel with employees. Antonio Gaudi and Cornet Born on June 25, 1852 in Reus (Catalonia), or in the village next to this town, becoming the fifth child in the family. It is the fact that all his childhood passed near the sea, and explains the bizarre forms of the structures of the genius, resembling sand castles. As a child, Antonio suffered inflammation of lungs and rheumatism. Because of the disease, he almost had no friends, so the boy often had alone with nature, then then dreaming to become an architect. Subsequently, this affected the creation of forms close to natural in its creations.

Since 1868, Gaudi moves to Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere architectural courses are held. One of the teachers called him or a genius, or crazy for his non-standard projects. Gaudi never enjoyed drawings and computing machines, in his work he was guided only by intuition, producing all calculations in the mind. It is impossible to say that the architect was in search of her own style, he just saw the world, creating masterpieces of architecture. Here you can specify the fact that the ancestors of Antonio, up to the great-grandfather, were kotelshchiki, the most complex products were performed "on the eyes", without drawings. This, apparently, was their family feature. In 1878, he finally was noticed and received his first order - the design of the street lamp Barcelona. Next year, the project was fully implemented.

House Vicens

House Vicens ("Casis Vicens", 1878) was designed for a diploma and manufacturer of building materials Manuel Vincens, even at the beginning of the Gaudi architectural career. The house has a simple rectangular plan, built out of stone and bricks, but the architect provided the building with a rich trim with ceramics and so much attachments, turrets and balconies that the house became like a fabulous palace. Inspiration Master emphasized in ancient Arabic architecture. Gaudi himself developed window lattices and the garden fence, as well as performed the sketches of the interior of the dining room and smoking room. In this project, the experience of creating a parabolic arch was first used. This villa can be seen on Caroline Street, unfortunately now a devoid of the garden.

His career began with very modest orders, in addition to the street lamp for the Royal Square, he was engaged in the design of shop windows, the street toilets designed. But thanks to this, he was noticed by a rich industrialist Count Eusebio Guel-I-Basiguka, who became his patron and permanent customer up to the death of the count in 1918. Count Guell provided Gaudi full freedom, thereby allowing themselves to express themselves. All that Antonio has built for Guell, has become a collection of masterpieces that Barcelona is so proud of.

The first work of Gaudi for Count Guell was the construction of a Count estate in the county of Garraf (1884-1887). Only the gate with a wrought dragon remained the survivors, the appearance of mighty monsters on the gate was very symbolic, as it is part of the emblem of Catalonia, as well as his bends repeat the outlines of the dragon constellation. In this, all Gaudi was, all its buildings and sculptures are permeated with symbolism. Next to the gate are the entrance pavilions, in which the stable, playpen and the house of the gatekeeper were located, and now the Center for Research Creativity Gaudi. The turrets with domes on these pavilions resemble the book "Thousand and One Night".

The very unique work of Gaudi for the graph was the building of the Barcelona Residence of Gueley - (1886-1891). This building is a bright display of Gaudi's own style. A unique combination of materials and a lighter creates fantastic images. The roof of this building is stitched with decorative chimney and ventilation pipes of not mental species, not one of which is not repeated. Did not forget Gaudi and about the practicality of its buildings, thanks to the huge arches, the crews were easy to enter the stables located under the house. Inside the house was a spacious main hall, which was crowned with a dome with holes, so even in the afternoon, raising his head, it seemed that you were looking at the starry sky. All in this building is developed by Gaudi, balcony railings, furniture, stucco on the ceilings, columns (forty different forms).

The main dream of the architect was the construction of churches, he was a deeply believer man. A Catholic Church requested to complete the College Building of the Sisters of the Order of St. Teresa, which was thrown by another architect. The funds of the Order were very scarce, as the Order gave voeses poverty. But Gaudi was able to give this building a refined, exquisite style, decorating it is not luxurious, but modestly: coat of arms of the Order, turrets with crosses and arches.

Another Church order was the Episcopal Palace in Astorgh (1887-1893), which could not be completed, since the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, the permission of which was required to implement this project, held the architect to the amendments, and he threw the work, since He defended each touch on his drawings. The palace was completed by another architect, but the general appearance retained from Gaudi, resembling medieval castles with his turrets and counterphorties.

However, the most famous work of the master remains Sagrada Familia (St. Family Cathedral), made in an atypical style for temple architecture. Erecting the cathedral architect Antonio Gaudi. He dedicated a lot of strength and time, starting him in 1883, however, the building was never completed due to the death of Antonio Gaudi. After the genius did not become, the project of Sagrada Familia remained unfinished, as Antonio did not like to draw, after him there were no copyright drawings. The shapes and symbols of the cathedral are so complex, and the method of work Gaudi is so unique that all subsequent attempts to continue the construction looked too uncertain.

In addition to Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona there are 13 main buildings Antonio Gaudi, giving the city a unique shade and allowing to create an idea of \u200b\u200bthe style of the brilliant Creator. These include the house of Mila (residential building, the walls of which are painted from the inside, and on a flat uneven roof there are fireplace pipes, lined with pieces of glass and ceramics), Batllo House (Wavy, the scaly roof of which resembles a giant snake), Gate Miles (round wall Covered with tiled from a black shell), Park Guell (which is an urban style in nature, there is not a single straight line here, this park has become a pearl of Barcelona), Church of the country manor Guell, the house of Belisgward (Villa in the form of a Gothic castle with stained-glass windows of a sophisticated star form And of course a lot of others, since, entering the "in fashion", rich citizens did not leave her until the end of his life.

Architect Antonio Gaudi. He died, hitting the tram on June 7, 1926. The information is distributed that on this day in Barcelona was launched the first tram and the architect was supposedly crushed, but it was only a legend. Gaudi was a negleous old man and was accepted for homeless. He died in three days on June 10, in the shelter for homeless, but he was completely randomly identified an elderly woman. And thanks to her, they did not bury the great architect in the general grave, and buried the temple of the Holy Family in the building of his whole life, where you can see his grave and a posthumous mask.

According to UNESCO's decision, Guell Park, Guell Palace and Mila House were announced by the property of mankind.

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