GAUDÍ OF BARCELONA

Gaudí executed most of his works in Barcelona and his buildings had a decisive influence on the city's urban landscape. On the other hand, the city marked his oeuvre, for it must be remembered that architecture has invariably exerted an enormous specific weight in the urban and social history of the Catalan capital. Lluís Permanyer places the architect's work within the context of Catalan and wider European developments of the time, but he also describes the extremely personal mystical impetus that was at the core of Gaudí 's invent...[Llegir més]