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Traced to its Greek foundations, the word architect comes from archi (chief) and tekton (builder). In the case of Catalan "chief builder" Antoni Gaudí, the derivation seems prosaic. For Gaudí, the word breaks easily into the three trademarks of his architecture: arches, technical brilliance and sureness, this last...
International reaction to Gaudí has also been ambivalent. Architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner ignored him altogether in the 1936 edition of his seminal Pioneers of Modern Design. It was only after 1962 that Gaudí was admitted to its pages. George Orwell, in Barcelona during the Civil War, was more...
While Gaudí was unlucky in love and had poor health, he was enormously fortunate in those with whom he surrounded himself. He found patrons, particularly businessman Eusebi Güell, who rarely interfered with his vision. Given that Gaudí was given to changing his designs over and over...
Many of Gaudí's buildings were never finished, he often fell out with owners or planning authorities, and toward the end of his life he became ever more despotic and rude - his irritability perhaps exacerbated by his contraction of the livestock disease brucellosis. The Catholic Church, however, has few...
Who is Coyula-Cowley, you ask? Why, he is the new Robert F. Kennedy professor at the Graduate School of Design, where he will teach architecture and urban planning. He is also a member of Cuba’s Communist Party. Indeed, he is a high-ranking government official, the...