Gaudi biography book
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Instead there’s a multitude of books about Antoni Gaudi architecture. If you are a lot into architecture and appreciate a scholar introduction to the mästare, you need to check out Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect.
Gaudi’s architecture is so photogenic. It makes for great coffee table books! And if there’s one publishing house with great konstnär coffee table books, that fryst vatten Taschen. They’ve been publishing books on Gaudi for decades.
Antoni Gaudi’s masterpiece is the outstanding Sagrada Familia Church. A project that wasn’t even his own: he took over when the original architect Francesc de paula inom Villar quit. That’s when he transformed the primary idea of a traditional church into a magnificent temple that would take generations to be completed.
There’s many books about it, for all budgets and needs. Readers looking for technical explanations need to check out the book bygd Josep Faulí, current chief
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Gaudi: A Biography
The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects
At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial masterpieces of modern architecture, that were as exotic as they were outrageous. A precurser to the other great Catalan artists Picasso, Dali and Bunuel, Gaudi created dramatically original and daring art that was to surpass and reinvent all that had gone before.
Gijs van Hensbergen's book is a masterly biography, capturing both the power and importance of Gaudi's work and the unique spirit of Catalan culture. In life and in death, Gaudi lived by extravagant gestures and a creativity that bordered on madness. Even his legendary death under a tram as he stepped back to admire his cathedral in Barcelona has the hint of absurdity and poetry.
Today, Gaudi has become an icon of artistic integrity and genius, for reli
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Gaudi: A Biography - Hardcover
Synopsis
At the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial masterpieces of modern architecture, which were as exotic as they were outrageous. For many, Gaudi's unique architecture is Barcelona. But little is known about the shadowy figure behind the swirling, vivid buildings that inspired the surrealists. A fervent Catholic with an unstinting love for Catalonia, his homeland, an innovator who was profoundly orthodox, and a hermit who chose lifelong celibacy, having been rejected by the woman he loved, Gaudi was both brilliant and eccentric. He was very much the product of his time and place, and this masterful biography brings both man and architect powerfully to life against the changing backdrop of Barcelona and Catalonia.
Gijs van Hensbergen leads us through the design and construction of Gaudi's most significant buildings, revealing thei