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Gaudi Ain't Gaudy (Much)

March 20, 2007 at 9:15 AM | by amandak | 1 Comment


If you get to Barcelona and become obsessed with the still unfinished La Sagrada Familia temple--and it's not hard to be quite taken with a half-finished church that has massive multicolored fruit attached to its towers--then the next step is to head out to another Antoni Gaudi site, the Park Güell and the matching museum and house of the architect himself.

The Casa Museu Gaudi (like so many of Gaudi's ideas, the website's not finished yet: English is on its way, but you'll need some Spanish skills for now) lies entirely within the zany lines and colors of the park, and Gaudi actually lived there from 1906 until he was hit by a Barcelona tram and died in 1926. Inside the house you can see various Gaudi memorabilia, including some of his furniture and drawings. Most of the sofas look far too strangely-shaped to be comfortable, but they'll certainly keep your interest more than Ikea junk. You can't miss the rose-pink building at the bottom of the gardens. You can miss your step while you're ogling at the weirded out furniture inside.

[Photo: Peter Gasston]

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  1. gaudi

    Jaunted Member

    A new novel about Gaudi

    At the end of this month a new novel is going to be released related to Gaudí in a The Da Vinci Code style.
    The publishers think it may become a bestseller. The truth is that they are already translating it into English, German, Italian and Polish and Korean even before it is even in any bookshop. At the end of this month it will be firstly published in Spanish and Catalan.
    The name is La Clave Gaudí in Spanish. I wonder if the name in English would be The Gaudi Key. The authors
    are Andreu Carranza and Esteban Martin and you could know more about the novel in www.laclavegaudi.tk or in www.gaudi.cat (quite quite hidden in this last website)

    I hope the quality of the novel is good because being
    the architecture of Gaudí so fascinating it would be
    awful to read a novel about Gaudí that is distasteful.

    It has an esoteric content and that may be a very good idea because the buildings of Gaudí are full of
    esoteric and masonic symbols.

    Do you remember the terrace of La Pedrera with its warriors? Or the three crosses in a little hill in Park Güell? Or the mushrooms at the roofs at the entrance
    of the park? Even the plants are different to the ones in other parks in Barcelona. They are the typical plants
    you find in the Mediterranean coast! Because Gaudí wanted it that way! I am so sorry he is not with us
    no more!

    About La Casa Museu Gaudí I find it fascinating especially its tower when it gets dark! At night the windows of the tower seem like
    two enormous dangerous eyes! Francesc Berenguer, the builder
    was a very close friend of Gaudí and as Gaudí had been born in Reus.
    One of the most amazing buildings I have ever seen,
    Bodegues Güell in Garraf are always in a dispute between both architects.

    March 20, 2007 at 1:39 PM
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