Thursday 25 September 2014

Gaudi, modernism in Barcelona

                                                                            Barcelona is a beautiful city with Gothic architecture in the old quarter at one architectural extreme and the beautiful modern work of Gaudi at the other.  
One of Gaudi's main masterpieces is the cathedral, Sagrada Familia. it is still being built and will take about another tweny years.  Our group went to this cathedral twice, once during he day and once at night and it was extraordinary.  No sketch unfortunately.
I visited four other Gaudi buildings and sketched two.  I sat underneath the above residential building called Casa Batllo . The columns are like bones and it is very unsymmetrical.
The Park designed by Gaudi is below.  The group went at night and I returned the next morning to do these sketches.
                                    

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