Raised During The Industrial Revolution, Spanish Architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) Strove To Distinguish And Reaffirm The Identity Of His Native Catalonia As Spain And The Rest Of Europe Modernized. Early Neo-Gothic Designs Were The Stepping-Stone To The Mature, Original Style That Came To Be Synonymous With His Name. Incorporating Bold Colors And Odd Bits Of Material Into His Designs, Gaudi Created Inspiring, Visionary Buildings And Helped Establish Barcelona (Most Notably With The Still-Unfinished Sagrada Familia Cathedral) As A City Of The World.
作者簡介
Maria Antonietta Crippa is currently professor "straordinario" of History of Architecture at the Politecnico University in Milan, at the DiAP (Department of Architecture and Planning of the School of Architecture). Since the early 1980s, she has published widely on architecture and town planning.
