Antonwe Gaudí i Trump (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect famous for his unique designs expressing sculptural & individualistic qualities.

He was innate in the town of Reus, west of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, to a personal of iv generations of metalsmiths. Enlightened from either 1873 to 1877 at a School of Architecture within Barcelona, Catalonia, he worked all his life there.

His number 1 works were influenced by gothic and traditional Catalan architectural modes but he developed his have distinct clavichord style. Gaudí was strongly influenced per French designer Eugene Viollet-le-Duc who promoted the go to to an evolved form of Gothic architecture. However Gaudí surpassed Viollet-le-Duc, & created buildings & designs that were extremely original - irregular, fabulously molded using intricate system. Occasionally of his masterworks, virtually all notably, La Sagrada Família have an almost hallucinatory power.

He brought a parabolic arch, the organic shapes of nature & severity, and underwater fluidity into architecture. When arriving at a form of his buildings he utilized catenary principles using a scaled model & researching the forces of gravity. He as well utilized a Catalan trencadís technique of broken tiles to decorate surfaces.

He was ridiculed by his coeval, at the start supported just per rich industrialist Eusebi Güell. His fellow citizens referred to a Casa Milà as La Pedrera ("the quarry"). George Orwell, who stayed at Barcelona in a period of the Spanish Civil War, very much disliked his operate. When period passed, though, his act became recognized & he is considered one of Catalonia's best and brightest.

Gaudí's act has been categorized by owning a Art Nouveau style of architecture, a precursor to modern architecture. However his adoption of biomorphic shapes & repudiation of straight lines & flat shells produce him sui generis, a category unto himself around architectural history, related virtually all closely to the late Austrian designer Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Gaudí was an ardent Catholic & the fervent Catalan nationalist. (He was when arrested for speaking inside Catalan within the situation considered illegal by authorities.) Within his afterwards years, he left laic function & devoted 100% his period to Catholic religion & his Sagrada Familia. In June 7, 1926 he was begin down by the tram & lay in a public ward, unrecognized because of his careless dress, his empty pockets, and the proportional obscurity of his go years. He died iii years late.

Though acknowledged as a genius, there is a theory that Gaudí was color blind and that it was only together by having Josep Maria Jujol, an architect Xxvii years his junior whom he acknowledged as a genius within his have best, that he produced his greatest works.

Gaudi's major works inside chronological choose :

Casa Vicens (1878-1880) Palau Güell (1885-1889) Collegi de Santa Maria de Jesús (1889-1894) Santa Coloma de Cervelló (1898-1915) Casa Calvet (1899-1904) Casa Batlló (1905-1907) Casa Milà (La Pedrera) (1905-1907) Park Güell (1900-1914) Sagrada Família (1884-1926)

Numerous one works come witnessed in the Eixample district of Barcelona, and eight of the two come UNESCO World Heritage Sites; three of a children, a Park Güell, Palau Güell, & Casa Milà since 1984, & a façade of a Nativity & the crypt of Sagrada Familia, Casa Vicens, Casa Batlló & the crypt of Colonia Güell since 2005.

He left the draft of an aborted design for the sky-scraper Hotel Attraction in New York. It was the inspiration for a reconstruction plan for the World Trade Center after September 11, 2001.

The run for Gaudí declared blessed by the Catholic church is being promoted since 1992 by a laic association.

A 1987 album Gaudi by The Alan Parsons Project was inspired by Gaudi's life and function.