Gaudí

by Maria Antonietta Crippa, Peter Gössel (Editor)

Overview

Window frames curve like flowering branches and ceramic tiling shimmers like reptilian skin in the fervent architectural imagination of Antoni Gaudí. This introduction to the modernist Catalan architect explores how his outstanding attention to natural detail and unique vision transformed Barcelona’s cityscape with extraordinary buildings that continue to amaze, even a century after their construction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783836560283
Publisher:	TASCHEN
Publication date:	08/15/2015
Series:	Basic Art
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Maria Antonietta Crippa is currently professor “straordinario” of History of Architecture at the Politecnico Universityin 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.

Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several titles in the Basic Architecture series.