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  Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona - Barcelona and Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona - Barcelona and Antoni Gaudi
Gaudi was a pioneer in his field using color, texture, and movement in ways never before imagined.
Gaudi became obsessed with the church to the point that not only did he focus all of his creative energies into it, but he set up residence in his on-site study as well.
www.barcelona.com /barcelona_city_guide/gaudi   (1352 words)

  
  Antoni Gaudí - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect famous for his unique designs expressing sculptural and individualistic qualities.
He was born in the town of Reus, west of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, to a family of four generations of metalsmiths.
The 1987 album Gaudi by The Alan Parsons Project was inspired by Gaudi's life and work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antoni_Gaudi   (532 words)

  
 Antoni GAUDI : Biographie de Antoni GAUDI - Monsieur-Biographie.com
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Thèmes associés : Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, antonio gaudi.
www.monsieur-biographie.com /celebrite/biographie/antoni_gaudi-2724.php   (260 words)

  
 Furniture Society - Furniture in the News - The Furniture of Antonio Gaudi
Gaudi's most noted work, and the one upon which the case for his sainthood is based, is Barcelona's Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia.
Gaudi's designs were so novel that contemporary furniture seemed out of place in his buildings, so his clients asked that he design furnishings in a similar style.
Gaudi suffered from a debilitating form of rheumatism all his life, and, according to Gueilburt, that disability focused Gaudi's attention on the human form and its structure.
www.furnituresociety.org /fin/gaudi.html   (698 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Antoni Gaudi
Many of Barcelona's buildings designed by Gaudi will be open to the public for the first time in years.
Gaudi - emphatically not a subscriber to the "less is more" school - was at the forefront of Spain's art nouveau movement at the turn of the 19th century.
Gaudi's attention to detail may have stemmed from childhood rheumatic problems that made him miss a lot of school.
www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,743807,00.html   (247 words)

  
 Antoni Gaudi y Cornet
In his worldly buildings Gaudi shows himself far more clearly as a master of art nouveau, whose intention was to throw off the historic chains of the past and to create at the turn of the century an innovative up-to-date style.
Gaudi, whose work experienced a large Renaissance, can be integrated badly in a school or a style or a direction; his style is too individual and fantastic.
Gaudi has earned the right to a quite special appreciation, since he created buildings of fantasy with such full employment and intuition, which takes us alternatively to astonishment, and to places of the peaceful harmony and beautiful.
www.cbrava.com /gaudi.uk.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Barcelona Gaudi: Barcelona Architecture
Gaudi's work is admired by architects around the World as being one of the most unique and distinctive styles.
Antoni Gaudi was born in Reus in 1852 and received his Architectural degree in 1878.
Gaudi's work was greatly influenced by forms of nature and this is reflected by the use of curved construction stones, twisted iron sculptures, and organic-like forms which are traits of Gaudi's Barcelona architecture.
www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com /gaudi/barcelona-gaudi.html   (342 words)

  
 Shapes, colors, genius combine: Barcelona celebrates eccentric architect Antoni Gaudi
That said, Gaudi's originality is best found on the roof, which is adorned with 18 unique chimneys and ventilation pipes that are covered with colorful pieces of broken ceramics and rocks.
Gaudi designed this private home for a textile industrialist, framing the front with columns sculpted in the shape of bobbins indicating the family business.
Some say Gaudi was paying homage to traditional Catalan art and architecture, but aspects of the building are sheer Gaudi, including its colorful stained glass, tiled interior and use of low brick arches to form ceilings and terraces.
www.freep.com /features/travel/gaudi28_20020428.htm   (1415 words)

  
 Gaudi and Barcelona Club
Initiation Course to Antoni Gaudí, with the supervision of the Catedra Gaudí
They are fighting together in hopes to gain a bigger response and stop the tunnel from being built.The Gaudí Chair is in charge of protecting Gaudi´s works, while ¨per un Bon traç at TGV¨ supports the people of the town who may lose their homes.
Four properties built by the architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) in or near Barcelona are added to his Parque Güell, Palacio Güell and Casa Mila in Barcelona, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1984.
www.gaudiclub.com   (590 words)

  
 Spain in Cyberspain: GAUDI IN CYBERSPAIN
Yet as it is always, this is a testimonial of a great human being that was caught in the mires of his time, the petty political divisions of the Spanish politics of the turn of the century, and yet whose artistic creations have risen to international recognition.
Gaudí, as we shall see, was not a pompous men, and his simplicity and character permeate his architecture, almost as if freeing architecture from the laws of physics and defying gravity itself; his style is often described as a blend of neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau, but it also has surrealist and cubist elements.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was born on June 25, 1852, in Reus, Catalonia; the son of Francesc Gaudí i Serra, a coppersmith, and of Antonia Cornet i Bertran, Gaudí was Christened Antonio Plácido Guillermo Gaudí i Cornet.
www.cyberspain.com /passion/gaudi.htm   (1758 words)

  
 Who is Antoni Gaudi?
Gaudi was not fully appreciated in his own time, but generations since have come to admire his unabashed originality.
Tragically, Gaudi was hit by a tram as he was leaving the Sagrada Familia in June of 1926.
Gaudi's intention was to be bizarre and playful on one hand and on the other produce a design that was a compliment to nature.
momo.essortment.com /whoisantoniga_oir.htm   (907 words)

  
 BBC News | ARTS | Barcelona wishes Gaudi happy birthday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Barcelona is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Catalonia's most famous sons, the eccentric architect Antoni Gaudi.
He was inspired by nature and imitated it, mimicking a sparkling pool of water with blue, mosaic tiles and using organic shapes of vegetation, animals and the human body as a basis for his designs.
Gaudi was known as an eccentric during his own lifetime.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1834624.stm   (444 words)

  
 Temple de la Sagrada Familia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gaudi dedicated his life, in his later years to the exclusion of all else, to carrying out this ambitious undertaking which due to his sudden death was left unfinished.
Gaudí became obsessed with the church to the point that not only did he focus all of his creative energies into it, but he set up residence in his on-site study as well.
On June 7, 1926, Gaudi was hit by a street car while crossing the Gran Vía at Gerona.
www.op.net /~jmeltzer/Gaudi/eltemple.html   (419 words)

  
 Gaudi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
At the age of 16 Gaudi left his hometown Reus to join the school of architecture of Barcelona.
Art Nouveau is the movement that influenced Gaudi the most, stimulating him to experiment with new materials and new shapes, thereby helping him to give up imitating historical styles and find his own way.
At the end of his life, Gaudi reached through his work a high state of personality and he became more and more isolated, building the work of his life: the "Sagrada Familia".
art-nouveau.kubos.org /en/artistes/gaudi.htm   (484 words)

  
 TASCHEN Books: Architecture - All Titles - Antoni Gaudí-The complete buildings - Facts
It was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works.
Antoni Gaudí never married and devoted his life entirely to his art - architecture.
His works have been acclaimed as "soothing oases in a desert of functional buildings", as "precious gems in the uniform grey of rows of houses," and the master himself was acclaimed as the "Dante of architecture".
www.taschen.com /pages/en/catalogue/books/architecture/all/facts/00107.htm   (355 words)

  
 ANTONI GAUDI 1852-1926   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Antoni Gaudi is regarded as one of Spain's most famous architects.
Antoni Gaudi was born on the 25th June 1852 in Reus, Calalonia, Spain.
No one recognised him because of his shabby dress and he was taken to a pauper's ward in a local hospital where he died two days later at the age of seventy-four.
sunset.ennis.ie /article.php3?id_article=369   (732 words)

  
 See Barcelona - Gaudi
All Gaudi’s favourite materials are used here, such as ceramic tiles (on the roof) and mosaic (on the façade).
It was named Espai Gaudí (Gaudí Space) and it offers the most complete global vision of Antoni Gaudí’s life (in cultural and historical context), his work and the artistic and technical values he created, and last but not least a detailed study of the formal and structural elements of La Pedrera.
From the architect’s origins through his early work to detailed analyses of his main projects in Barcelona, to a stupendous series of models that explain the fusion of art and technique in Gaudí’s work, the tour finishes on the roof, with the silent sentry like chimneys and a magnificent view of the city.
www.seebarcelona.com /gaudi.htm   (805 words)

  
 Sitio al margen: Gaudi y la búsqueda de un lenguaje.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Antoni Gaudi i Conet nació en Reus (Cataluña), el día 25 de junio de 1852.
La obra de Gaudi, que hasta entonces solo había sido reconocida por sus pares dentro de España en el Congreso de Arquitectos de 1922 y fuera de ella en la Societe Nationale de Beaux Arts de París en 1910, pasó prácticamente al olvido y al ostracismo.
Términos que insólitamente se podrían aplicar a la obra de Antoni Gaudí medio siglo antes, a pesar de las diferencias entre ambas obras y autores.
www.almargen.com.ar /sitio/seccion/arquitectura/gaudi   (1593 words)

  
 IPM Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet became a Catalan folk hero in his own lifetime.
The son of a coppersmith, Gaudi was blessed with an instinctive understanding of the materials he used and the workmanship of craftsmen who gave his vision form.
Gaudi believed that the realization of his masterpiece, the church of the Sagrada Familia, was in itself a continuing act of worship.
www.internationalpubmarket.com /Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=80447   (293 words)

  
 Casa Milà (La Pedrera), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain (Antoni Gaudi) - Architecture of Barcelona
Gaudi resigned from the project in the later stages when his preferred interior designer was replaced by another.
Gaudi dimitió del proyecto en las fases más posteriores cuando otro substituyó a su diseñador interior preferido.
The hand of Gaudi is also evident in the hallways with their flowing staircases and colour schemes whilst the apartments are more traditional.
www.archiseek.com /guides/spain/catalunya/barcelona/casa_mila.html   (557 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Gaudi: A Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Gaudi's often combative dealings with civic authorities are recounted clearly, up to his death in a street accident involving a tram, and are reconstructed as thoroughly as possible, yet not elaborated on or fabricated, as many another biographer might have tried to do.
Gaudi's life was spiritually motivated and this was reflected in his deeply moving architecture; Libeskind also pontificates, but it doesn't ring true, and when I was told he used another architect to design his home, it made me wonder how sincere he really is about the ideas he sells to clients.
Gaudi was a quiet, humble and modest man; Libeskind is a braggart who writes about developers, other architects and even his clients, with venom and disdain.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0066210658?v=glance   (2643 words)

  
 Antoni Gaudi - een leven in de architectuur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Antoni Gaudi werd geboren in 1852 in het Spaanse Reus als zoon van een kopersmid.
In Gaudi was een architect, schilder, en beeldhouwer verenigt.
Onze reden voor de naam Gaudi was, dat buiten onze bewondering voor zijn werk en levenswijze, deze veelzijdige ‘kunstenaar’ ook zijn levenswerk ondanks zijn volledige inzet niet heeft afgekregen!
www.hotelgaudi.nl /antoni_gaudi.htm   (467 words)

  
 Antoni Gaudi
And it is also in that park where Gaudi had an assistant seat himself in the unformed cement, leaving the impression of his ass; it's supposed to be a very comfortable place to sit.
In Gaudi's work, there is none of the self-imposed consistency that we all exercise constantly and unconsciously.
I look at Gaudi not to see beauty, but to be confronted by a sense of astonishment, much like the sense of astonishment that erupted unpredictably and often when I was younger, on simply seeing the world around me. Gaudi evokes that same feeling, which I have largely lost in other circumstances.
www.kcnet.com /~marc/gaudi.html   (1165 words)

  
 Antoni Gaudí, a saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Lluís Bonet i Armengol (Rector of Sagrada Familia Parish), vice-postulator of the cause for Gaudi's Beatification.
'Antoni Gaudí, builder of aristocratic palaces and parks, domestic architect of millionaire patricians, has chosen to live with, and has had the fortune to die married to lady poverty.
Gaudi's bedside reading is Beranger's Anné Liturgique which centres on the liturgy of the Easter mystery.
sun1.arqbcn.org /orgterr/1/1_07/1_07_045/gaudi/saint.htm   (2397 words)

  
 Casa Batllo - Antoni Gaudi
Gaudi used colours and shapes found in marine life as inspiration for his creativity in this building e.g.
If you decide to take a look around inside you will learn how much attention to detail Gaudi spent on his designs thinking about such things as varying window size depending on how high the window was from the top of the building.
You will also find Gaudi's old home in Park Guell which is now open to the public as a small museum.
www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com /gaudi/casa-batllo.html   (509 words)

  
 www.zoooom.it - Antoni Gaudì
L’architetto e designer Antoni Gaudí i Cornet fu una della figure più importanti del movimento Art Nouveau in Spagna, e i suoi interventi sulla città di Barcellona hanno contribuito alla creazione di alcuni degli edifici più caratteristici del paesaggio urbano della città catalana.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet nacque nel 1852 a Reus, nelle vicinanze di Tarragona.
Antoni Gaudí fu, insieme agli architetti belgi Victor Horta e Henry van de Velde e allo scozzese Charles Rennie Mackintosh, uno dei maggiori rappresentanti del movimento chiamato Art Nouveau.
railibro.lacab.it /emma/zoom.phtml?ns=2828   (1244 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Gaudi design proposed for WTC
Architectural plans by the late Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi are to be submitted to an international memorial competition for redesigns of New York's former World Trade Center site.
Gaudi's 95-year-old plans, which were originally designs for a futuristic hotel about the same size as the Empire State building, will be entered into the competition this spring by a group of art historians, architects and enthusiasts of his work.
Gaudi, born in 1852 and revered as one of Spain's most noted architects, is known for his inventive, flamboyant architecture which changed the face of Barcelona in the early 1900s.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2687565.stm   (905 words)

  
 The Antoni Gaudi Tile Game Review
Apparently Gaudi is considered one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement.
Gaudi's buildings resemble the set of one of those intriguing alien cities from an old Star Trek.
Because The Antoni Gaudi Tile Game (which I shall now refer to as AGTG) introduces itself by transporting you to Barcelona: "Here you are in the Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona.
www.thegamesjournal.com /reviews/AntoniGaudi.shtml   (1470 words)

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