Building on Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building on Nature write by Rachel Rodríguez. This book was released on 2009-09. Building on Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by the natural beauty of his homeland of Catalonia, Antoni Gaudi became a celebrated and innovative architect through the unique structures he designed in Barcelona, having a significant impact on architecture as it was known.
Gaudí, 1852-1926
Gaudí, 1852-1926 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaudí, 1852-1926 write by Rainer Zerbst. This book was released on 2005. Gaudí, 1852-1926 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gaudí's complete works: The inspiring, visionary buildings by the "Dante of architecture" Anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Antoni Gaudí--the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain. It was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works, including villas for the well-to-do bourgeoisie, the expansive Güell Park (which today is open to the public), and the famous church designed in honour of the Holy Family--a project which was begun over 100 years ago and has yet to be completed. Antoni Gaudí's life was full of contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single church. As a young man Gaudí had a liking for the glamour of social life and the looks of a dandy; in old age, on the other hand, he lived a spartan life. Gaudí never married and devoted his life entirely to his art: architecture. His works have been acclaimed as "soothing oases in a desert of functional buildings," as "precious gems in the uniform grey of rows of houses," and the master himself was acclaimed as the "Dante of architecture". This book provides a sweeping study of his entire career, presenting his complete works via texts and illustrations.
Gaudi
Gaudi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gaudi write by Gijs van Hensbergen. This book was released on 2003-11-04. Gaudi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudí 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. But little is known about the shadowy figure behind the swirling, vivid buildings that inspired the Surrealists. 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 Gaudí’s most significant buildings -- revealing their innovation and complexity, and demonstrating the growing relevance of Gaudí’s architecture today.
Antoni Gaudi︠, 1852-1926
Antoni Gaudi︠, 1852-1926 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antoni Gaudi︠, 1852-1926 write by Maria Antonietta Crippa. This book was released on 2003. Antoni Gaudi︠, 1852-1926 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gaudi's bizarre and romantic buildings, interiors and exteriors, mosiacs and public spaces, have imbued Barcelona with unique character and ensured his place in the pantheon of great architects.
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antoni Gaudí write by Juan José Lahuerta. This book was released on 2016. Antoni Gaudí available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Corbusian International Modern style, with its contempt for ornament, imposed itself on architecture, figures like Gaudi (1852-1926) were relegated to the sidelines. In this volume, Lahuerta situates Gaudi in his context and vindicates his fin-de-siecle bohemian modernity. Embodied in such powerful images as the equation of the spires of the Sagrada Familia with the flames rising from burning churches during the Tragic Week (1909), the story takes us to the Barcelona of the early twentieth century, when class struggle threatened to topple the prevailing capitalist model. Drawing on valuable first-hand documents collected over several decades, the author shows that Gaudi was not an isolated eccentric but an architect who was keenly aware of the major theories and outstanding works of his time and the creator of revolutionary technical innovations. His analyses of Gaudi's writings reveals a pioneer in the use of industrial processes to produce ornamental details that may seem handmade today. Equally novel was the way that Gaudi made use of his fame as a public figure, a 'media personality', thanks to the cartoons of the architect and his buildings in the popular press. His influence on avant-garde artists like Dali, who admired the edible appearance of the Casa Mila, or Picasso, fascinated by the eroticism of the Casa Batllo attest to the importance of his contribution to culture. This entertaining volume is part of Columns of Smoke, a series of publications in which Professor Lahuerta turns his perceptive eye on the official narrative of modernity and its protagonists and the relationship between architecture, decoration and the print media.
