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What did Antoni Gaudí do for a living?

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect who has become internationally recognised as one of the most prodigious experts in his discipline, as well as one of the top exponents of modernism.



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Gaudí himself once said: “originality consists of going back to the origins.” In 1870 he moved to Barcelona to pursue his academic career in architecture, at the same time working at various jobs to enable him to pay for his studies.

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Gaudi was born in Catalonia in 1852 into a wealthy family and a life filled, as Tarragona puts it, with horses, opera, and the best restaurants.

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  • Gaudí avoided the use of straight lines in his architecture.


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Antoni Gaudí was Barcelona's most famous architect and he created three houses, Casa Batlló, Casa Mila and Casa Vicens that are open to the public for visits.

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He remains a pioneering figure of Art Nouveau and modernisme, or Catalan Modernism. Gaudí is best known for his intricate structures throughout Barcelona, with the storied Basílica de la Sagrada Família having become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe in the last century.

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The only two Antoni Gaudi-designed Churches are La Sagrada Familia and the Church of Colonia Güell.

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The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, shortened as the Sagrada Família, is an under construction church in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world.



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