Gaudí Lab – Colonia Güell

The Crypt of Colonia Güell is the work that served as a testing laboratory for the Sagrada Familia, the most surprising architectural innovation workshop of the 20th century.The Crypt of Colònia Güell is the work that will serve as a testing laboratory for the Sagrada Família, the most surprising architectural innovation workshop of the 20th century.

Gaudí's laboratory

The Crypt of the Colònia Güell is the work that will serve as a testing laboratory for the Sagrada Família, the most surprising architectural innovation workshop of the 20th century, the most important part of the creativity of Gaudí and Gaudí “will surpass “All the limits are established in the world of the forms” according to the words of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

Colònia Güell is an atypical industrial colony at the time. In it, Gaudí and his friend Count Güell present in practice the main technical advances of the time and also the newest social reforms. The unfinished church of the Colony is also Patrimoni de la Humanitat. Gaudí was going to capture all the creative effervescence and full genius of him, and he was going to devise the constructius and formal plans of the new architecture that he would eventually bring to the Sagrada Família.

Gaudi's laboratory

La Crypt of Colonia Güell It is the work that served as a testing laboratory for the Sagrada Familia, the most surprising architectural innovation workshop of the 20th century, the place where Gaudí's creativity explodes and where Gaudí “surpassed all the limits established in the world of forms ” in the words of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

La Colonia Güell It is an atypical industrial colony for its time. In it, Gaudí and his friend Count Güell put into practice the main technical advances of the time and also the most innovative social reforms. In the unfinished church of the colony, the Crypt, Gaudí captured all his creative effervescence and his full genius, and devised the constructive and formal approaches of his new architecture that he would carry out in the Sagrada Familia.

His method

Gaudí's genius attitude as a revolutionary artist resides in his method, summament original, not in that it has been compared to his contemporary Van Gogh for his brilliant expression of color, to Leonardo da Vinci for his continuous invention, with JS Bach for technical and symbolic perfection. Committed to his time, Gaudí will be the inventor of constructive forms, master of symbolism and scientific rationality, loving observer of nature, ecologist and recycler, religion and worker social conscience.

Gaudí was an architectural scientist. But his serious attitude and his working method are relentless, rigorous, honest and aggressive. There, no one had fet mai but it was not an impediment because he was willing to work. It is evident that an artist who identifies Art with Beauty and Beauty with Life, with the splendor of Truth, is making a list of maximum self-demand. It is not here again that Le Corbusier admires him, Miró honors him and Dalí recovers them for the History of Art.

Gaudí's works

Gaudí's work is found mainly in Catalonia, although he also worked in other places in Spain, such as Comillas (Cantabria), Astorga y León (Castilla y León) and Palma de Mallorca..

One of the issues that marks his work and more specifically the construction of the Colonia Güell Crypt is the relationship between the architect and the patron Eusebi Güell after the latter's trip to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition of 1878. Gaudí at that time , a 26-year-old young man. Since then and over time, a frank friendship is created between the two characters.

Gaudí's work is usually classified between religious and residential work, but to facilitate your visit, the main works are classified below based on their geographical location, highlighting those declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

Gaudi Heritage

Gaudí's work is found mainly in Catalonia, although he also worked in other places in Spain, such as Comillas (Cantabria), Astorga y León (Castilla y León) and Palma de Mallorca..

Gaudí's work is mainly found in Catalonia, but it is also worth working in other parts of Spain, such as Comillas (Cantàbria), Astorga i Lleó (Castella i Lleó) or Palma de Mallorca. One of the questions that marks The seventh work and more specifically the construction of the Crypt of the Colònia Güell is the relationship between the architect and the patron Eusebi Güell after his trip to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition of 1878.

Gaudí, at that time, a young man of 26 years old, who, from the keys and into the weather, created a frank friendship between the two characters. Gaudí's work is usually classified between religious and residential works, but to facilitate the visit, the main works are classified below according to their geographical location, highlighting those declared Human Heritage by UNESCO.

In Barcelona

The Expiatori Temple of the Sagrada Família, the Naixement façana and the crypt of the Sagrada Família: Human Heritage by UNESCO
Vicens House: Human Heritage by UNESCO
The Güell Estate
The Palau Güell: Human Heritage by UNESCO
The Mataronense worker
The Col · legi TeresiàThe Calvet house
Casa Batlló: Human Heritage by UNESCO
The Milà house (La Pedrera) : Human Heritage by UNESCO
Schools of the Holy Family
Lights for the Barcelona City Council
Parc Güell: Human Heritage by UNESCO
Bellesguard
Cellers Güell (Gaudí-Berenguer)
Gate of the Miralles Estate
The crypt of Colònia Güell: Human Heritage by UNESCO

To the rest of Catalonia

Artigas Gardens, in Pobla de Lillet

To Spain

The Capritx of Comillas (Santander)
The Episcopal Palace of Astorga
Restoration of the Cathedral of Mallorca
The Botines House, in Lleó