Antoni Gaud has a reputation as monastic, mad, and hermetic.
Picking up the same strands of eclecticism and art nouveau current in fin de si cle European architecture, he transformed them into an idiom unique to himself and Barcelona to create a series of buildings as revolutionary in their engineering as they were astonishing.
He was a genius inspired by his faith in nature and the divine.
But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona\'s cityscape was no mad eccentric.
Antoni Gaud has a reputation as monastic, mad, and hermetic