Barcelona
Antoni Gaudi
When I went to Barcelona a few years ago, I was amazed by the Gaudi buildings in the city. They are certainly not the style of buildings you would expect to come across in any city and I became fascinated in particular by the unfinished church.
In first year one week we were asked to bring in an example of what we thought was a piece of great design. I bought in evidence of the ‘Sagrada Familia’ or ‘Church of the Holy Family’.
I am fascinated with this unique style of architecture and how unreal it seems. When I first saw the buildings I thought that they looked like they should be in a fictional book or film, they seemed like fairytale buildings. There was something I found childlike about them and I remember specifically comparing them to what I thought Hansel and Gretel’s confectionary house would look like. It must have been something to do with the amount of colour in Park Guell and the curvature of some of the buildings around here.
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When I saw the Sagrada Familia, I was in awe. The amount of detail present on the building was unreal and I remembered thinking ‘no wonder this isn’t finished yet!’. There was not a single millimetre of that building that hadn’t gone through careful and detailed planning and I was absolutely amazed by that.
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The building began in 1882 and work has been undergone on the construction non-stop since then yet it is still not expected to be completed for another 80 years. Gaudi participated himself until he died in 1926 but work has still continued.
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When I went to Barcelona a few years ago, I was amazed by the Gaudi buildings in the city. They are certainly not the style of buildings you would expect to come across in any city and I became fascinated in particular by the unfinished church.
In first year one week we were asked to bring in an example of what we thought was a piece of great design. I bought in evidence of the ‘Sagrada Familia’ or ‘Church of the Holy Family’.
I am fascinated with this unique style of architecture and how unreal it seems. When I first saw the buildings I thought that they looked like they should be in a fictional book or film, they seemed like fairytale buildings. There was something I found childlike about them and I remember specifically comparing them to what I thought Hansel and Gretel’s confectionary house would look like. It must have been something to do with the amount of colour in Park Guell and the curvature of some of the buildings around here.
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When I saw the Sagrada Familia, I was in awe. The amount of detail present on the building was unreal and I remembered thinking ‘no wonder this isn’t finished yet!’. There was not a single millimetre of that building that hadn’t gone through careful and detailed planning and I was absolutely amazed by that.
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The building began in 1882 and work has been undergone on the construction non-stop since then yet it is still not expected to be completed for another 80 years. Gaudi participated himself until he died in 1926 but work has still continued.
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The amazing thing about that building was that no building could come close to replicating that-it was the definition of unique which is why I personally think it is the greatest piece of design.
For information and photographs of some of his work
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Antonio_Gaudi.html
For information and photographs of some of his work
http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Antonio_Gaudi.html
3 comments:
I totally agree with what you are saying about Gaudi's work, its pretty unreal but the Sagrada Familia was stunning and i think its good that tey have people still working on it and to the plans, they are not rusing it out of the way. It gives you some pretty good views too when you get up there.
I loved the Gaudi park and the famous 'lizzard' he made for the fountain.
The buidlings themselves are of course exceptional but lets not forget the small details, the mosaics, as seen on those "benches" by the lookout in the park, was really nice and had a lovely irregular pattern. I had a picture of those as my background image for quite a while.
It's funny, his own home, in the park, was so dull and unspiring. It made me wonder how in the world he could up with these amazing designs...
Congratualtions to visting such a lovely city as Barcelona! :)
Barcelona is a place which earns you from the first moment, after leaving from there you wish to visit it again someday. It can offer anything a visitor wants to see or do, a modern city which still keeps memories from the past.The weather is ideal, the food and wines are fabulous,hotels in Barcelona are not expensive and good and the people are so polite and helpful. Barcelona is also called An. Gaudi's city, one of the greatest architects. There are many signs of his presence, as you'll see... Generally, if you are interested in arts, this is YOUR city. Art seems to be an important part of Catalan way of living; it can be seen not only in museums. Miro, Tapies, Picasso, Dali are just a few artists who have left their sign in Barcelona.
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