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GAUDI’s VAULTED STRUCTURES
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Gaudi, the Spanish architect from Barcelona, can be seen as a visionary of architecture but also
of structures. His greatness as an architect is to be found in a prolific invention of forms and
way s to study structures, especially vaulted ones.
When he received his architect diploma, the director of his School of architecture said from him:
“I don’t know if I gave a diploma to a genius or a mad man”.
Mad man, surely not. Gaudi was a genius of a special kind. He found and developed a way to
evaluate the stability of vaulted structures . The optimisation method developed by the Earth
Institute has been inspired by his findings.
He was born in 1852 and his life time has been very prolific. H is quest for perfection made him
redo many time a desi gn, until he was entirely satisfied. It is amazing to see how fast he could
work and how many works he could handle at the same time.
H e passed away in 1926, run over by a tramway, leaving to followers the completion of his
greatest project, the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia.
Sagrada Familia 1883-1926 – Original sketch by Gaudi
Sagrada Familia in 2005
Sagrada Familia around 1920
Sagrada Familia – Passion entrance
Sagrada Familia
Sagrada Familia – Crypte
Sagrada Familia – Model study with the hyperboloid of revolution
Hyperboloid of revolution
Stability study
Sagrada Familia – Nave with hyperboloids of revolution
Stability study
Stability study
Iglesia Colonia Guell 1898-1914
Iglesia Colonia Guell
Iglesia Colonia Guell
Iglesia Colonia Guell
Iglesia Colonia Guell
Iglesia Colonia Guell
Iglesia Colonia Guell
Iglesia Colonia Guell
College de les Teresianes 1888-1890
College de les Teresianes
Parc Guell 1900-1914
Parc Guell
Parc Guell
Parc Guell
Parc Guell
Parc Guell
Casa Batllo 1904-1907
Casa Batllo
Casa Batllo
Casa Batllo
Casa Batllo
Casa Batllo
Casa Mila – La Pedrera 1906-1912
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera
Casa Mila – La Pedrera