Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí i Cornetwas a Spanish Catalan architect from Reus and the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect an individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth25 June 1852
CityReus, Spain
CountrySpain
men lines straight-lines
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
lines building corners
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
continues creation media
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
belongs god men straight
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
originality
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
originality
Originality is going back to origins.
copiers
Copiers do not collaborate.
book great-book
Everything comes from the great book of nature.
imagination simplicity firsts
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
doe function form
Form does not necessarily follow function
return originality
Originality is a return to the origin.
firsts written
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
book great-book humans
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
familia
In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.