Antoni Gaudí - A Celebration of Nature

Private, shy and retiring, Gaudí was also humorous and witty in his extravagant style. Inspired by honeycombs and spiders' webs, armadillo skins and mushrooms, trees and whales' bellies, he worked with extraordinary ceramicists, iron workers, tilers and decorative artists. In today's lecture we looked at his public and private buildings in detail and his relationship with a wealthy and demanding patron. 

Our Speaker Jacqueline Cockburn also uncovered for us some of the other architects working in Barcelona over the turn of the twentieth century, such as Domenech y Muntaner and Puig y Cadafalch, showing us exquisite images of several of their significant and ravishing buildings in Barcelona, and many lesser known ones.