Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect whose fantastical, organic buildings define Barcelona's skyline.
His work—the unfinished Sagrada Família basilica, the undulating Casa Batlló, the mosaic-encrusted Park Güell—rejected straight lines in favor of curves inspired by nature.
Gaudí spent his final years devoted entirely to the Sagrada Família, and was struck by a tram in 1926, dying unrecognized.
His style, sometimes called Catalan Modernism, remains singular and widely imitated.
- Sagrada FamíliaFamous incomplete Barcelona basilica
- stoneSolid earth fragment
- biomimicryDesign imitating natural systems
- sea creatureOcean-inhabiting organism
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
stained glass · ceramic tiles · cultural nationalism · iron · Art Nouveau · Spanish architecture · dragon · mosaic · broken tile · Frank Lloyd Wright · patron saint · Barcelona · glass · basilica · spires · whimsical · cathedral · architect
Antoni GaudíInternational Style
Functionalist architecture movement, 1920s
minimalism · functionalism · Bauhaus · brutalism · Brutalism
Antoni Gaudíindustrial architecture
Building design for manufacturing