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Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí (Catalonia, 1852–Barcelona, 1926) became an architect in 1878. His work is concentrated in Barcelona and led to the creation of its most notable landmarks. Gaudí was a pioneer in his field, using color, texture, and forms never before imagined. His works, particularly those built for the Güell family (e.g. the Park Güell), stand as testimony to his genius.
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80 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 2003
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June 1, 2015
Update. All this penis stuff is very biased. I have found a building that looks like a vagina to balance it out. For an Arab nation too.
Penis .
Gaudi was a genius. Sometimes I think the word "architect" is a catch-all term for two totally different, I don't want to say 'occupations' but I can't think of a better word. The first is the profession of the person who can draw (a bit) and has some imagination (maybe) and puts up anything concrete, occasionally wood, to a brief. Sometimes the brief is a giant box in the sky with lots of glass. More usually its giant boxes on the ground called "malls" or smaller ones called (very ordinary) houses and apartments. These architects are all about function and making the form fit that.
The term 'architect' also covers those who marry form and function to produce beautiful buildings, like Renzo Piano's the Shard in London, Zaha Hadid's many fabulous buildings, as practical as they are sculptural, or Jorn Utzon's iconic Sydney Opera House. These are modern artists, sculpters with giant imaginations who work in the medium of buildings. But none top Gaudi for beauty and none approach him for the sheer, soaring fantasies of form and colour that peak in his magnificent La Sagrada Familia. An artist with an immense imagination.
Although he did many beautiful and colourful buildings, the church was the truest expression of himself and his art and he devoted himself to it for years until his death. It is now 125 years since it was started and it is not yet complete. There are plans that his vision will finally be realised by 2026. Gaudi was in no hurry in his lifetime to complete his last, most magnificent project. He said that his client, God, hadn't put a time limit on the building!
This book is a small glimpse into the mind of a man whose art was never confined and will stand for a thousand years or more (hopefully). The heavy solidity of rock and concrete tranformed into delicate forms that still keep their original strength, not just on a huge scale, like the towers, but the tiny details of chunks of coloured mosaic. If you can't afford to go to Barcelona, then $14.99 on this little book will be like a menu at three star Michelin restaurant. A taste.
This has nothing to do with the book but has a lot to do with architecture as, if not art, then art as the expression of culture. In this case the equivalent of a two-fingered salute by an excellent architect, Zhou. The Chinese Communist Party's newspaper is housed in a gigantic erect penis he built!
Again, nothing to do with Gaudi, but interesting anyway to look at architecture sometimes as utilitarian, sometimes as art but also as humour and .... madness! A picture-list of the 50 most amazing buildings in the world.
Penis .
Gaudi was a genius. Sometimes I think the word "architect" is a catch-all term for two totally different, I don't want to say 'occupations' but I can't think of a better word. The first is the profession of the person who can draw (a bit) and has some imagination (maybe) and puts up anything concrete, occasionally wood, to a brief. Sometimes the brief is a giant box in the sky with lots of glass. More usually its giant boxes on the ground called "malls" or smaller ones called (very ordinary) houses and apartments. These architects are all about function and making the form fit that.
The term 'architect' also covers those who marry form and function to produce beautiful buildings, like Renzo Piano's the Shard in London, Zaha Hadid's many fabulous buildings, as practical as they are sculptural, or Jorn Utzon's iconic Sydney Opera House. These are modern artists, sculpters with giant imaginations who work in the medium of buildings. But none top Gaudi for beauty and none approach him for the sheer, soaring fantasies of form and colour that peak in his magnificent La Sagrada Familia. An artist with an immense imagination.
Although he did many beautiful and colourful buildings, the church was the truest expression of himself and his art and he devoted himself to it for years until his death. It is now 125 years since it was started and it is not yet complete. There are plans that his vision will finally be realised by 2026. Gaudi was in no hurry in his lifetime to complete his last, most magnificent project. He said that his client, God, hadn't put a time limit on the building!
This book is a small glimpse into the mind of a man whose art was never confined and will stand for a thousand years or more (hopefully). The heavy solidity of rock and concrete tranformed into delicate forms that still keep their original strength, not just on a huge scale, like the towers, but the tiny details of chunks of coloured mosaic. If you can't afford to go to Barcelona, then $14.99 on this little book will be like a menu at three star Michelin restaurant. A taste.
This has nothing to do with the book but has a lot to do with architecture as, if not art, then art as the expression of culture. In this case the equivalent of a two-fingered salute by an excellent architect, Zhou. The Chinese Communist Party's newspaper is housed in a gigantic erect penis he built!
Again, nothing to do with Gaudi, but interesting anyway to look at architecture sometimes as utilitarian, sometimes as art but also as humour and .... madness! A picture-list of the 50 most amazing buildings in the world.
March 9, 2025
From the moment I first encountered Gaudi's work, I was in awe of it. This book covers his major works, but now I want to know more about HIM! Pity the print is so small - it was a total strain on my eyes
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