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.

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.

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.

Your method

Gaudí's brilliant attitude as a revolutionary artist lies in his extremely original method. Not in vain has it been compared to his contemporary Van Gogh for the brilliant expression of color, with Leonardo da Vinci by continuous invention, with J. S. Bach for technical and symbolic perfection. Committed to his time, Gaudí was the inventor of constructive forms, master of the symbol and scientific rationality, a loving observer of Nature, ecological and recycler, religious and with a working-class social conscience.

Gaudí was an architectural scientist. That is why his attitude and his work method are relentless, rigorous, honest and daring. The fact that no one had ever done that was no impediment for him to get to work. It is evident that an artist who identifies Art with Beauty and Beauty with Life, as the radiance of Truth, a bar of maximum self-demand is imposed. Therefore, it is not at all strange that Le Corbusier I admired him, Miró I honored him and Dalí recovered it 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. 

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. 

In Barcelona

  • The Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia: the façade of the Nativity and the Crypt of the Sagrada Familia: UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Vicens House: UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • The Güell Estate
  • Palau Güell: UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • The Mataronense worker
  • The Teresian College
  • The Calvet house
  • Casa Batlló: UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Casa Milá (La Pedrera): UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Holy Family Schools
  • Streetlights by Barcelona City Council
  • Park Güell: UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Bellesguard
  • Güell Wineries (Gaudí-Berenguer)
  • Gate of the Miralles Estate
  • The crypt of Colonia Güell: UNESCO World Heritage Site
 
 

In the rest of Catalonia

Artigas Gardens, in Pobla de Lillet

 

In Spain

  • The Capricho of Comillas (Santander)
  • The Episcopal Palace of Astorga
  • Restoration of the Seu de Mallorca
  • The Botines House, in León
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