Antoni Gaudi I Cornet

Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudi i Cornet was a Catalan architect as well as one of the faces of modernism. Gaudi was a renowned Barcelona-based architect born in the year 1852 on the 25th of June as the son of a coppersmith in Catalonia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Gaudi had taken an interest in architecture from a young age. As his family were boilermakers, it allowed the young Gaudi to acquire a skill for working with space and volume as he helped his father and grandfather in the family workshop. His talent for designing spaces and transforming materials developed and flourished until it eventually metamorphosed into an indubitable genius for three-dimensional forms. Due to his family’s inherent health issues, Gaudi had fragile health

He developed this style after graduation. Initially, Gaudi followed in the footsteps of his Victorian predecessors but he decided to produce his creations with juxtapositions of geometry masses and animating surfaces with patterned materials, bright ceramic tiles and metalwork relating to flora and fauna. Gaudi’s works were often influenced by his passions in life which were architecture, religion and nature. It was rare for Gaudi to draw detailed plans of his buildings and instead, he preferred to construct them as three-dimensional scale models and moulding the details as he conceived them. Gaudi was highly inventive in terms of his explorations of structure, going through a variety of regional styles before deciding on the parabolic, hyperbolic and catenary masonry forms and inclined columns that he developed through weighted models in his workshop.
After the year 1902, Antoni Gaudi’s designs began to disregard the stylistic designs of that era and instead, he created a type of structure known as equilibrate which meant that it could stand on its own without internal bracing or external buttressing. Primarily, the functional elements of this system were columns that were tilted to employ diagonal thrusts and lightweight tile

Although some controversies have started because of possible design clashes with the original Sagrada Familia planned by Gaudi, it was always planned to have the building be continued by different people.
Personally, I think that the Sagrada Familia church was an impressive combination between Neo Gothic architecture, a base which was set by Villar which was a conventional design of the 19th century, especially of a church and the Art Noveau developed by Antoni Gaudi who put his personal flair of bright colours and nature related designs into the building. He had great ambition of a gigantic structure that was uncommon for that time, leading to new innovations and remarkable architecture.
The building itself is designed to be symmetrical in nature and contains many circular outlines as its main shape. The majority of the design is made up of geometrical elements as Gaudi enjoyed taking his inspiration from the likeliness of nature. The variance in shape in the interior pillars of the building truly bring out a lot of character and shows that Gaudi truly wanted a building that would emulate the branches of tress, or something of a similar