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Portrait of Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect, with a full beard and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side. Photo by Pablo Audouard. Facade of Palau Guell in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi, featuring ornate ironwork, arched doorways, and rows of tall windows. Casa Vicens in Barcelona, a colorful and ornate modernist building with patterned tiles and intricate ironwork, designed by Antoni Gaudi. Episcopal Palace of Astorga, Spain Exterior view of the Crypt in Colonia Guell, designed by Antoni Gaudi, showing unique brick arches and stained glass windows surrounded by trees in Catalonia, Spain. Aerial panoramic view of Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain, showing colorful buildings, ornate entrance pavilions, curving pathways, and lush gardens surrounded by wooded hills. Park Güell, Barcelona Antoni Gaudi's colorful mosaic lizard-dragon fountain, known as El Drac, decorates the main entrance steps of Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain. Casa Batllo in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi and Josep Maria Jujol, features a colorful facade with curved balconies and mosaic tiles in the Modernisme style. Upper facade of Casa Batllo in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudi, featuring colorful mosaic tiles, organic shapes, and balconies resembling bones.
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Portrait of Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect, with a full beard and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side. Photo by Pablo Audouard.
Antoni Gaudí, c. 1883–86 Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, photographed by Pablo Audouard, c. 1883–86.

Antoni Gaudí

Spanish architect
Also known as: Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Antonio Gaudí y Cornet
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George R. Collins
Professor of Art History, Columbia University, 1962–86. Author of Antonio Gaudí and others; coauthor of The Designs and Drawings of Antonio Gaudí.
George R. Collins
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Antoni Gaudí (born June 25, 1852, Reus?, Spain—died June 10, 1926, Barcelona) was a Catalan architect, whose distinctive style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous color and texture, and organic unity. Gaudí worked almost entirely in or near Barcelona. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Sagrada Família (in full Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family), which was unfinished at his death in 1926. Sources are unclear whether Gaudí was...

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