Throughout this essay I am going to talk about the main works of Antonio Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh whilst comparing and contrasting them, with singular reference to the respective influences and examples used in their approach to design.
Antonio Gaudí, (1852, Reus, Spain—1926, Barcelona)
Antonio Gaudi was an outstanding character of Spanish architecture in the nineteenth century and was one of the most original architects of the period Art Nouveau was Antonio Gaudi. [1]
Antonio Gaudi was a Catalan architect, with a distinctive style that is branded through the means of freedom of form, through voluptuous colour, texture and organic harmony.
Gaudí’s elegance of architecture went from end to end in a number of phases. On development from the Provincial School of Architecture in Barcelona in 1878, he experienced a rather elaborate Victorianism that had been unmistakeable in his school projects. He quickly developed a manner of composing by means of extraordinary comparisons of geometric multitudes, the surfaces of which were highly animated with decorative brick or stone, ceramic tiles and floral or reptilian metalwork. The general effect, although not the details, is Moorish—or Mudéjar, as Spain’s distinctive mixture of Muslim and Christian design is called.
El Capricho (1883–85)
Church of the Holy Family,
Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia (1882 –Present)
The temple of the holy family is still slowly and painfully being added to in the city of Barcelona. By 1883 Gaudi had completed the crypt and the outer walls of the chevet, according to Francisco del Villar’s designs. Villar was the designer of the Sagrada Familia.
After the beginning of the construction Gaudi developed his own design, the part that was b...
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...as altered by the subsequent owners, but the present owner has done much to restore the building to its original condition.
Mackintosh designed Windy hill in 1899 which was one of the first private houses and ha d an independent commission. The house is situated on top of and open, steep hill, surrounded by wide wonderful views. Traditional references are evident in the pitched roofs and stern rough-cast masonry walls, yet the house is unmistakably of the 20th century. Much of the furniture designed for the house was also by Mackintosh in 1901 and was then later presented at the Glasgow School Of Art by the Davidson family.
Works Cited
Mackintosh architecture : the complete buildings and selected projects
Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí
The architecture of Europe – Doreen yarwood
Antonio gaudi – complete works
http://www.sagradafamilia.cat
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