Antonio Genovese was born on June 25, 1852 in the small Catalan city of Reus. He graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture. On June 10, 1926, he was hit by a tram during the opening ceremony of the Barcelona tram and died. Basic introduction Chinese name: Antonio Genovese Birthplace: Reus, a small town in Catalonia Date of birth: June 25, 1852 Graduate school: Barcelona School of Architecture Character resume, Gaudí biography, getting to know Mo Ni At the turn of the century, Park Güell, Apartment Mira, La Sagrada Familia, major works, biographies. In 1870, he entered the Barcelona School of Architecture. In 1876, the death of his brother and mother brought a heavy blow to him. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to He studied architecture to escape pain. In 1877, his graduation project was a university auditorium. In 1878, he received the title of architect and met Eusevio Guell. In 1879, his sister died and Gaudi began to take care of his niece. In 1883, Presided over the construction of the Sagrada Familia. In 1900, he decided to build "Park Guell". On June 10, 1926, he was hit by a tram during the opening ceremony of the Barcelona tram and died. Gaudí's biography, Antonio Gaudí, June 25, 1852 Born in Reus, a small Catalan city not far from Barcelona. His father was a boilermaker and his mother took care of the housework at home. They are honest and kind-hearted, devout believers, and live a simple, peaceful and even somewhat lonely life. Antonio ranked fifth and the youngest. It should be said that Antonio was born at the right time - shortly before he was born, the king had just signed an edict for the comprehensive reconstruction of Barcelona. Rich people in the industrial and commercial circles have invested huge sums of money in the reconstruction project of Barcelona. They all like to be original and innovative when building new buildings. At that time, the profession of architect was very popular and people flocked to it. Just as many boys yearned to become astronauts many years later, boys at that time wanted to grow up quickly and build wonderful buildings in order to become famous all over the world. Antonio also aspired to be an architect, but his ideas on how to build were different. He doesn't want to rack his brains to "invent" anything. He just wants to imitate nature and build something like nature does. As a young man, he wrote in his diary: "Only a madman would try to describe something that does not exist in the world!" His whole body and mind were filled with love for nature, and it can be said that illness helped him cultivate it. This feeling. While still very young he suffered from rheumatism. He cannot play with other children and can only be alone. The only thing he can do is to "watch quietly." Even if a snail appears in front of him, he can quietly observe it for a whole day. In his youth, he remained so withdrawn and unsociable that it was impossible to say that anyone particularly liked him. He is average in studies, but he is very good at drawing pictures. His earliest work was to draw a series of illustrations for the handwritten magazine "Funny Weekly" run by middle school students. Each issue of the magazine produced 12 copies, which is quite a lot. In 1870, Antonio Gaudí entered the Barcelona School of Architecture. In the first two years of school, disasters came one after another: first, my eldest brother who had just graduated from medical school died unfortunately, then my mother died of illness, and then my sister passed away, leaving behind a young daughter. The father had no choice but to move his granddaughter to Barcelona to live with his son. Antonio had to study and earn money to support his family. While still a student, Gaudi participated in the construction of several "wonders" in Barcelona. Nominally he was the assistant of several great architects, but he completed several parts of the design independently. In 1877, Gaudí designed an auditorium for a university, which was also his graduation project. After the plan came out, it caused a lot of controversy, but it was finally passed. The principal of the architecture school sighed and said: "I really don't know whether I gave the diploma to a genius or a madman!" Meeting an irreconcilable friend 1878 was the most critical year in Gaudí's career. In this year, he not only won the title of architect, but more importantly, he met Eusevio Guell, a friend who later became his protector and ally. Güell neither minded Gaudí's reclusive character nor his eccentric temper, because he was convinced that the person standing in front of him was an architectural genius. It seems that he has also agreed with the truth: "Normal people often have no talent, but geniuses are often like madmen." Every novel idea of ??Gaudí may seem to others to be absolutely crazy. But it always elicited an ecstatic reaction from Güell. The Guell Manor, tombs, palaces, parks, mansions, pavilions, etc. designed by Gaudí and funded by Guell have all become masterpieces of architectural art in Spain and around the world. What Gaudí got here is what every creator desires: full freedom to express himself without having to worry about financial resources. Gaudí never married, and he seemed to have no connection with women. He once said: "To avoid being disappointed, you should not be tempted by illusions." It is said that he had a romance when he was young, but the girl later made another choice. She is right. Apart from work, Gaudí had no other hobbies or needs. In life, he really seems a bit stupid and crazy. He has a long beard all year round and has a gloomy and unpredictable expression all day long. He had no other friends except Guell.
He only spoke Catalan, and had to go through an interpreter to explain anything to the workers. He only had two students with him, and he would be annoyed by one more. He seemed to feel that as long as he interacted with these two students, he could maintain his balance with the entire world. He ate more simply and casually than the workers, and sometimes he simply forgot to eat, and his students had to stuff him with slices of bread to satisfy his hunger. He dresses even more casually. He often wears the same set of clothes every day for three to five years, and his shirt is dirty and torn. Looking at his poor appearance, someone really used him as a beggar to give alms. Park Guell Mosaic veneer in Park Guell After Guell introduced Gaudi to Barcelona's upper class, fashionable wealthy people asked him to design and build mansions, villas, etc., and he has been busy ever since. He first built a magnificent Baroque mansion for the widow of an industrialist, then designed and built the peculiar Batlló Apartment, and then built the Villa Bellesguard, which resembled a Gothic castle. Of course, he did not forget to serve his best friend Guel. It can be said that Guell is also a visionary like Gaudí. In 1900, he had a sudden idea and decided to build a garden city. This is an extremely ambitious plan. To this end, he bought a bare hilltop on the outskirts of Barcelona and planned to build "Park Guell" - a residential area for the wealthy upper class in Barcelona. Gaudí enthusiastically supported Güell's plan. Naturally, neither of them considered at that time that this site was too far from the city and the terrain was too high. Even today, in addition to using two large elevators, people also have to walk a long and steep mountain road to get there. No wonder many people at the time thought it was crazy to choose such a place to build a residential area. Gaudí divided this large mountainous area into a dozen separate plots and marked them with boulders, and then the vast construction project began. It was here in Park Guell that Gaudi successfully combined nature and architecture into a perfect whole. Everything here - small bridges, roads and benches inlaid with colorful porcelain tiles, are all winding and twisting, as if floating and flowing, forming a poetic artistic conception. The central square, which the architect intended to be a resting place for future residents, has a colonnade, but none of the columns are straight, and they all resemble tree trunks in a natural forest. There are surprises everywhere here. The entire park is like a fairy tale world and a giant work of art suspended in the air. Even if Gaudí never built any other buildings, this park alone would be enough to make him famous. Park Güell was a great architectural achievement, but an economic failure. Of the 16 plots of land in the park planned for private residential construction, only one has been sold. The reason is simple: Barcelona people don’t want to climb mountains and ridges every day, they are not goats! Apartment Mira On Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona, ??there is a world-famous purely modern building - Apartment Mira. Common people often call it a "stone house". Along with two other works by Gaudi, it was declared a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1984. Pere Milla was a wealthy man. He and his wife visited the Casa Batlló and were so envious that they decided to build an even more impressive building. Mira found the popular young architect Gaudi, asked him to design and build it, and promised to give him full freedom of creation and movement. However, he later realized that his promise was ill-advised. The project started in full swing. Mira was wandering around the construction site worriedly, because he had many questions in his mind that he couldn't figure out: Why was the project started but there were no drawings? Why no budget? Why is there no design plan? And so on. Gaudí remained silent—words were not the only and best way for him to express his opinions. However, finally one day, he couldn't hold himself back anymore, took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket, and said to Mira: "This is my apartment design plan!" Poor Mi in Mira's apartment La sometimes grabbed his wallet, sometimes grabbed his chest, but Gaudi smiled as if nothing had happened. He rubbed his hands together proudly and said to Mira: "The unique shape of this house will echo the various mountains surrounding Barcelona." The roof of Mira's apartment is staggered, the walls are uneven, and winding signs can be seen everywhere. With its undulating curves, the whole building is like a rough sea, full of movement. Gaudí also built some strange-shaped protrusions on the roof of Mira's apartment, some like sergeants in full armor, some like mythical monsters, and some like church bells. In fact, this is a special form of chimney and ventilation duct. Later they became symbols of Barcelona, ??like Park Guell and Sagrada Familia. In short, Mira's apartment looks very weird inside and out, even a little absurd. But Gaudí believed that this was the best house he had built because he believed that it was "the most convincing work that uses naturalistic techniques to embody romanticism and anti-traditional spirit in architecture." Sagrada Familia Still under construction The idea to build this church was proposed by the Barcelona bookseller Giuseppe Maria Boccaberia. He was the founder of the Congregation for the Adoration of Saint Joseph, whose members donated generously for the project and hired architect Francisco de Villa to design and preside over its construction. However, soon after the construction started, the architect had a falling out with the Adoration Society and gave up his choice. Guell suggested that Gaudí should be asked to take over and preside over the project. Gaudí directed the project from 1883 until his death in 1926.
In the last 12 years of his life, he completely refused other projects and devoted himself to the construction of this church. This is the most important work and the greatest building in his life. It can also be said to be the fruit of his hard work and a symbol of honor. The world always has a strange preference for the Tower of Babel, and Gaudí is no exception. He designed three magnificent main entrances for the church sanctuary, with four spiers placed above each door. The 12 towers represent the 12 disciples of Jesus. There are also 4 towers clustered around a central spire, symbolizing the 4 evangelists and Christ himself. Only one of the three gates has been completed so far. When designing the interior decoration of the church, he tried every means to make the characters in the biblical stories realistic and believable. To this end, he took great pains to find suitable real people as models. For example, he found a church gatekeeper to depict Judas, and finally found a burly man with six fingers to depict the centurion who massacred children. In addition, in order to show the image of hundreds of babies massacred by the cruel and cruel Jewish King Herod on the front of a door, he also went out of his way to find dead babies, made plaster models, and hung them under the ceiling of the workshop. It was creepy to see. With a 170-meter-high tower, colorful mosaic decorations, spiral staircases, and lifelike statues that seem to grow from the wall... the huge building looks very light, like a sand sculpture castle built by children on the beach. However, the church looks a bit scary. No wonder some people call it a "nightmare made of stone." But when Pope Leo XIII announced his support for the construction of this church, the people of Barcelona immediately fell in love with the church and its architect Gaudí. On June 10, 1926, Barcelona held a tram opening ceremony, and the whole city was filled with joy. The tram decorated with colorful flags and flowers started moving amidst cheerful music and thunderous applause... Suddenly, the tram knocked down an old man! At first, no one knew he was Gaudí. He was dressed shabbily and looked haggard. People thought this bad old man was just a beggar. He died shortly after being taken to the hospital. Like all the homeless people lying dead on the street, he will be hastily buried in the public cemetery in a few days. Unexpectedly, an old lady recognized this old man as Antonio Gaudi. God, he is Barcelona's greatest architect and most outstanding citizen, the pride of the whole of Spain! On the day of the funeral, the streets of Barcelona were packed with people, and people from the whole city came out to pay their respects to him! Gaudí is buried in the crypt of the Sagrada Familia. The cathedral is still not fully completed. The current builders are in their fifth generation. Project progress was slow due to lack of funds. Projects cost an average of US$3 million per year. Even if the capital supply is very stable, it will probably take at least 65 years to build. In fact, no one is sure how many years it will take to complete the project. Gaudí knew that the project would begin without him and would not be without him when it was completed (if it could be completed at all). Perhaps, making this church an eternal construction project and a process as eternal as nature is the gift left to the world by the genius Gaudi, and it is Gaudi's original intention! Main Works Early Works - Oriental style Comia Casual House Visons House (also translated as Vicens House) Guell House Guell Pavilion · Gothic and modernist style works Theresa Academy A Stolga Cathedral, Bodines House, Guell Cellars, Calvert House, Vélezguard House, Mallorca Cathedral, Naturalistic Works, Park Guell, Porta Miralles, Colo Nia Chapel, Casa Batlló, La Pedrera (also translated as Mira Apartments, also known as the Quarry), Sagrada Familia, unexecuted design drawings, New York Hotel book, Gaudí Code, known as "God's Architect" The talented master Antonio Gaudi left countless famous buildings in his life, which makes people sigh, "No city will be as shining as Barcelona because of one person (Gaudi)." Gaudi's buildings Inspired by the writer, in 2007, a novel "The Gaudí Code" that revolved around his seven buildings was launched in Spain. In just one month, the copyrights of more than ten countries were sold, and it shined at the London Book Fair that year. , became the new darling of the international literary world. In 2008, it became popular in 19 countries and regions around the world, with a print volume exceeding 2 million copies. It has been on the bestseller lists in Spain, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and is known as a Spanish national treasure suspense decoding novel. Recently, the book was introduced and published by Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House. The novel takes Gaudí's death as a starting point and devises a large number of bizarre coincidences. It also creates additional mysteries for Gaudí's seven buildings, namely Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, Casa Vincens, La Pedrera (also known as La Pedrera), Casa Batllo, Casa Calvet, Palau Guell ). The author skillfully echoes these seven buildings with the Big Dipper in the sky, forming the "Ursa Major" constellation on land, which becomes the key to deciphering the story in the novel. Because the book points out that each of these seven buildings contains a code point that can lead to the final secret entrusted to Gaudí before his death, people who have read this book want to fly to Barcelona immediately to find out the secret. Therefore, the publication of this book has also brought about a new wave of worldwide travel craze to Barcelona.
The two authors of the novel, Andrew Carranza and Esteban Martin, said that they unanimously chose Gaudí as the protagonist because of his genius and legendary life. When Gaudí graduated from architecture school, his principal once lamented: "I don't know if I gave the diploma to a genius or a madman!" Later, Gaudí used his own achievements to answer the principal's confusion. Answer - 17 of his works have been listed as national treasures by Spain, and 3 have been listed as world cultural heritage by UNESCO. Among them, the masterpiece, the Holy Family Church (Sagrada Familia for short), has been built for more than 120 years and has still not been completed. It is the only building in the world that has been listed as a World Cultural Heritage before it is completed. Gaudí was withdrawn and never married, said to be because he "did not succumb to disappointment and not be tempted by illusions." He spent most of his life on architecture, including 43 years spent building the Sagrada Familia, which unfortunately was never completed. On June 7, 1926, Barcelona held a tram opening ceremony. Gaudí was knocked down by a tram. His clothes were shabby at the time, and passers-by thought he was a homeless man. He died three days after being sent to the hospital... According to the two authors, Gaudí's inexplicable death was by no means an accident; the fact that Gaudí was a devout Catholic also provides confirmation of the religious history that the novel focuses on; the ubiquitous metaphor is the Sagrada Familia The biggest feature, which also makes it a hiding place for passwords in the novel... These real elements add a lot of rationality to the author's conception and design, and also make readers immersed in the scene and unable to put it down.