How Did Anton Gaudi Influence Architecture

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

one of his architecture’s that I find interesting is the Casa Batlló.
The Casa Batlló is one of Gaudi’s masterpieces that are currently renowned. Originally built in 1877, with a basement, ground floor, four other floors and a garden in the back. The building at first was undesirable to buyers but the home became famous in 1900’s. Many people find intriguing about this building is the rounded feature to the left of the center, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, they believes it’s a lance and that it had been plunged into the back of the dragon. So many fine details put into this building that it had to be refurbished in 1906 to add new floors and lights. Overall I believe this building is very unique with so much detail to how he did so much with stain glass it was truly amazing.
My opinion when I saw the building is I have to agree it looks very natural and unique. Going along with our tour I felt as if there was so much detailed in what Gaudi tried to interpret that at the same time it was nice and relaxed. Although when you looked at the railings of the house it was again so detailed and like it was easily hand crafted. I know it was obviously not easy but everything looks so perfect like out of a movie, if I had to relate it to any movie it would be Alice and Wonderland. I felt as if the way the architecture was laid out he made you want to think about what the house truly symbolized. To me this architecture that Gaudi made was something that seemed so unreal that it also reminds me of the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory. I think it’s amazing how his mind could think that way back then and imagine those unique forms. Overall I enjoyed his house very much and was amazed at the stain glass that was so perfectly showed throughout the house. Can not wait to hopefully go back one day and enjoy it again.

Gaudi’s ideas and brilliance he shows in each of his buildings. Another work of art was the Artigas Gardens which was built between 1905 and 1906. A garden is something usually outdoors on display, cultivation, and enjoyment of the plants. The garden can combine both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. However, in 1905 Antonin Gaudi spent a few days a La Pole de Lillet to supervise the construction of the Catllaràs chalet. The architect stayed at the house of textile manufacturer Joan Artigas i Alart and in return for his hospitality gave the industrialist the sketch of a design for his gardens at the Font de la Magnèsia, near Artigas’ factory. Some months later Gaudí sent some of the workmen from the Park Güell to La Pobla to help to the local builders to complete the gardens. The way it looks reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. It’s almost like being in a dream. In my opinion Gaudi proved to us that architecture can blend with natural elements.
Furthermore, the Bellesguard house was built between 1900 and 1909, using rectilinear forms rarely seen in his other work.

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

energetic.”