Antoni Gaudí 5 - Güell Projects - AB+C 104

In this penultimate episode of our series on Antoni Gaudí, we dicussed projects he developed in his later career for Eusebi Güell. We talked about the Bodegas Güell, a complex of wineries and agricultural buildings in the countryside to the south of Barcelona. This project takes cyclopean masonry, a vast A-frame, gravity-defying stone pillars to create a building that calls back and forwards in time. Then we discussed the Park Güell, a consciously anglophile proposal for a garden city on the edge of Barcelona, where the housing never got built, and out of which Gaudí created a vast piece of land art, one of the most visited tourist attractions in the city. Lastly we discussed the recently renovated Chalet of Catllaràs, another curious masonry A-frame, like something out of a fairy tale with expressive dormers and spiral staircase, built as a shelter for coal miners.
Our final episode, on Gaudí's ecclesiastical projects including the Sagrada Familia, will be out very soon.
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Excellent stuff. Thanks a million.

[@oskvinne]

Great again. Thank you.

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Thanks again!

[@user-br1oq9os1j]

Since Taut came up several times (a provocative comparison), maybe do a program on Bruno, and glass architecture of the era. Have you read The Gray Cloth?

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There are some early episodes we did on him -- very old and have some mistakes in though czcams.com/video/AhdK0iLgxwY/video.html