Guell made Gaudi read Viollet-le-Duc's book "Entretients sur l'architecture" which influenced him quite a lot. Aug 26, 2017 - Explore foundcolors's board "Antonio Gaudi", followed by 5433 people on Pinterest. Gaudi viewed the natural world as perfect, a creation from which he drew inspiration. Antoni Gaudi Facts Antoni Gaudí y Cornet (1852–1926) was a Spanish architect whose idiosyncratic work, characterized by undulating curves and richly colored scrambled textures, won wide international recognition only after the mid-20th century. He clearly accepted nature as his guide. See more ideas about Gaudi, Antoni gaudi and Barcelona. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect.He was born in Reus, in Catalonia, and became a leader of Catalan modernism.Gaudí's works are in his own distinctive style. Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was born in 1852 in the province of Tarragona, part of the Catalonia region in northeast Spain.

De la maison Batlló au palais Guëll en passant par la Sagrada Familia (pour ne citer que quelques bâtiments visibles à Barcelone), les formes dessinées par Antoni Gaudí sont peut-être déroutantes au premier regard mais elles sont familières.

I also love texture and trying to bring the work alive with it. Gaudí worked almost entirely in or near Barcelona.

Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family

It is well known the influence that the genius Gaudí has had since leaving the legacy of his works in creative minds of all kinds of artistic disciplines. I want the piece to fit in harmony with its surrounds and have a relationship with them. Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect, whose distinctive style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. Now, observing the geological elements of the Coll de la Desenrocada, in the mountains of the Baix Camp, we can understand this statement. L’architecte catalan a toute sa vie durant puisé son inspiration dans la nature pour forger son architecture. He was particularly befriended with count Guëll, who travelled a lot in Europe. When designing I try to open my mind and consider a lot of these great things Gaudi was so brilliant at.

I have made a number of pieces using elements of Gaudi’s work for inspiration like The Casa Mila for a Door design. See more ideas about Gaudi, Antoni gaudi and Barcelona spain.

Especially the cinema has borrowed numerous references to the architecture of Gaudí to create the context of some films such as “Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona” by Woody Allen. All aspects of his work evince this. His exact birthplace is unknown, but the deep artistic inspiration he found in the Catalonian and Mediterranean landscape began at a young age. Gaudi’s inspiration during his neo-Gothic period. Gaudí’s neo-Gothic phase responds to another of the historicist movements taking place during the beginning of the 20th century and that, thanks to the coincidence in time with the Renaixença movement and the renovation of the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, meant a natural evolution for the architect. Gaudi met his friends regularly at the "cercle St. Luke" and "Ateneu Club".

Most are in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, especially his greatest work, the Sagrada Família.. Nowhere is this connection more clearly visible than in his masterpiece, Barcelona's Sagrada Familia. One of Antoni Gaudi's most famous and often-repeated phrases was, 'originality is returning to the origin.' Antoni Gaudí Nature was, for Antoni Gaudí, the genius of the Baix Camp, an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

– Antoni Gaudi. ANTONI GAUDI (1852-1926) Gaudi was a man of simple ideas and common sense. In his architecture it fuses structure and decoration. May 17, 2015 - Explore pbneiman's board "Gaudi Inspirations" on Pinterest. For Gaudi, a deeply religious man, this origin was nature.