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Gaudí

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Gau·dí  (goud, gou-d), Antonio 1852-1926.
Spanish architect who worked mainly in Barcelona, developing a startling new style that paralleled developments in art nouveau. His most celebrated work is the façade of the Expiatory Church of the Holy Family.

Gaudí [ˈgaʊdɪ (Spanish) gauˈði]
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(Biographies / Gaudí, Antonio (1852-1926) M, Spanish, ARCHITECTURE: architect) Antonio (anˈtonjo). 1852-1926, Spanish architect, regarded as one of the most original exponents of Art Nouveau in Europe and noted esp for the church of the Sagrada familia, Barcelona


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This isn't what Antoni Gaudí, the modernista architect of Barcelona, meant when he predicted that the future of architecture was in the imitation of nature.
 
 
 
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