How Did Anton Gaudi Influence Architecture

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Antoni Gaudi was born June 25th 1852 and lived until 1926. His name is Catalan with Gaudi being the family name and Cornet being the second. Gaudi was best known for being a practitioner of Catalan Modernism. The style of Gaudi was individualism and distinctive. Architecture, nature, and religion were Gaudi’s passion in life, which influenced a lot of his work. Gaudi liked to interpret his creations into his architecture for many to see the unique ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork and carpentry. What’s interesting about Gaudi is that he did not like to plan his work out but liked to make three-dimensional scale models. Many people liked his architecture because of the organic and natural styles conceived. Gaudi’s work became interesting around 1984 because he interpret religious imagines into his work and earned himself the name “God’s Architect”. His work deserves to be globally popular and …show more content…

His inspiration was the medieval castle of Martin I, also known as Martin the Humane, the last king of the Catalan dynasty of the House of Barcelona, who resided at Bellesguard until his death in 1410. They were a blend of Art Nouveau and Gothic style that restored the ruins of the medieval palace, which are now part of the estate’s grounds. The significant figures that passed through Bellesguard over the centuries inspired Antoni Gaudí to create one of his most personal, symbolic and mesmerizing works.
More important, what I like most of all is how out all of his masterpieces, Antonio Gaudi has been innovative in every way. He was a mastermind and passionate about each of them. This is how it relates to something we’ve seen before or can feel connected to. He was a very religious person with amazing talent. One of his sayings it that “Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more

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