Casa Batllo
Barcelona, Passeig de Gracia, 43 One of the most famous mansions, whose architectural plan flaunts the signature of the great Gaudí, the Casa Batlló is located on Passeig-de -Gracia, in the heart of the Eixample district. When you look at the house of Batllo from the street, it seems that the building lives, breathes and closely follows the movements of its guests.
Mila's house
Carrer de Provenca, 261-265 Dwelling house and monument of architecture ... Rarely these concepts are linked together, but there are exceptions. The case of the Casa Mila, or in the Spanish manner of Casa Mila, is just such an exception. Not for nothing that this landmark of Barcelona in 1984 was the first building of the 20th century, included in the UNESCO List.
Park Güell
Carrer d'Olot, 5 - Barcelona In 1900, Eusebi Güell bought 62 hectares of land on the outskirts of Barcelona with the goal of creating a garden city, which was very popular in the late 19th century. The creation of the infrastructure had to deal with Gaudi.
Sagrada Familia
Carrer de Mallorca, 401 The Sagrada Familia is a truly unique architectural phenomenon, it is a bridge that connected generations and epochs and presented an exceptional opportunity only to touch history, but also to join in its creation. For two centuries, the building is being built, growing, changing.
Bellesguard Tower
Barcelona, Carrer de Bellesguard, 16 Located at the foot of the Tibidabo Mountain, the Belgesguard Tower ( Torre Bellesguard) is one of the small but precious creations of the great Gaudi. Unusual for the master direct lines of the facade, however, with characteristic architectural eccentricities inside.
Palais Güell
Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 3-5 - Barcelona Palace Güell is the only creation of Gaudi in the Old Town. Built in 1880 for a patron and the most faithful client of the architect of textile tycoon Eusebi Güell, the mansion combines several styles: modern, gothic and Islamic motifs.
Gaudí House Museum
Barcelona, Park Guell, Carretera del Carmel, 23A Getting acquainted with the life and work of Antonio Gaudi, we recommend continuing in Park Guell, where is located The house-museum of the great Catalan architect. In the House-Museum personal belongings of the master are exhibited, a rich collection of furniture and other masterpieces of art created by Gaudi are presented
Museum "Gaudi Space"
Barcelona, Provenca, 261-265 It is possible to plunge headlong into the architectural world of the famous Gaudi in the museum "Gaudi Space" (or the so-called Pedrera House). The top floor of the museum is occupied with an exposition dedicated to the life and architecture of the great Catalan
The beginning of the creative path Antonio Gaudi
For the first time Gaudi met Barcelona in the middle of the 19th century, worked as a draftsman, studied crafts, small works. At that time, the Neo-Gothic style dominated the architecture of the city, which was then worshiped by venerable critics and art criticism, and the rich decorative features of which were enthusiastically followed by the young Antonio Gaudi.
The first Gaudi projects in the Art Nouveau style were the private residence Vicens and the summer mansion on the Cantabrian coast of El Capriccio . House Vicens was built of ceramic tiles and untreated stone, forming a chess and floral patterns . Decorate its turrets and bay windows, there are facades and balconies fenced by original sieves mansion . El Capriccio mansion - a kind of building with a striking view of the valley, descending to the sea . Like all architect projects, the structure is unique, lined with rows of bricks and ceramic tiles of different colors .
The main architectural projects of Antonio Gaudi
Decisive in the work of Antonio Gaudi was a meeting with Eusebi Guel - a textile tycoon, who became the patron and the main fan of the talent of a budding architect. Having finally got freedom of expression, Gaudi finally renounced the rules and restrictions set in architecture, creating his own, easily recognizable style. The Palace of Guell became a gift to the patron and one of the master's best creations
The city dwelling on Carrer Nou de la Rambla is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is a bizarre reflection of Gaudi's attempts to combine decorative steel structures and structural elements in the form of flat Byzantine vaults. A bright decorative element was the gate through which horse carriages entered, carved wooden ceilings, decorated with elements of gold and silver. The roof of the palace was also not neglected by the architect: the chimneys are made in the form of unusual figures of various shapes.
After the Palace of Guell was widely known in Barcelona, orders were showered, making Gaudi one of the city's most popular architects. He built houses for the richest people in the capital of Catalonia, one more unusual and more interesting than another. For example, the Mila House, located at the intersection of Passeig de Gràcia Boulevard with Carrer de Provença Street, was built by Gaudi specifically for the Mila family and became the first of the 20th century buildings listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Project of the Sagrada Familia Surname
Famous Sagrada Familia was the main project of Gaudi, which glorified it all over the world. Initially, for the construction of the Cathedral of the Holy Family, then not-known architect Francesco Villar, together with Joan Mortarella, answered anyone. Soon Villar abandoned this project and Antonio Gaudi took his place. The most surprising thing is that the Cathedral is not built so far, in terms of still grandiose towers, extensions, domes and interior decoration. According to the government of Spain, the cathedral will be fully completed only in 2026.
The whole architectural ensemble of the church is a mixture of directions and styles that give originality to the building . The so-called facade of Christmas was almost completely built during the life of Gaudi and consists of three portals symbolizing the Orthodox shrines - Faith, Hope and Love . All they are decorated with sculptures depicting scenes from the Bible . For example, over the portal of Hope you can see the scene of the betrothal of Mary and Joseph and the famous shrine of Catalonia - Mount Montserrat . Each of the towers of an unusual shape corresponds to a certain Apost olu . Bell-towers decorated with spiers with stylized images of episcopal senames . The liturgy texts and quotations from the Bible are widely used in the outer decoration of the church . All elements of the interior decor are distinguished by the smoothness of the lines and the dominance of such geometric models as hyperboloid, hyperbolic paraboloid, helicoid and the conoid, ellipsoid . The strict framework outlined by specific geometric figures led to the fact that everything in the interior of the cathedral obeys special rules: round stained-glass windows, hyperbolic vaults and gel icoidal staircases and the end of stars .
Gaudí died at the age of 74 years alongside the creation of his entire life under the rails of the first tram run by the Tibidabo mountain. He was buried in the crypt of the unfinished Cathedral of the Holy Family.
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