GAUDÍ

ANTONI GAUDÍ I CORNET

Mr. Antoni Gaudí and Cornet was a famous Catalan architect recognized for his maravellous buildings in Catalonia. He belonged to the Modernist style movement and was famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs. When he was a child, he had and bad illness and he had to stay at home most of the time. For that reason, all his buildings are insipirated in the nature. Antoni Gaudí died in 10th of June 1926, when he was knocked down by a train.

MATHEMATIC FACTS:

1. All the spirals staircases in the Sagrada Familia that allow people to visit the next floors are built following a helicoid model.
2.Gaudi had a very good command of the space geometry. This permitted him to work with the third dimension (3D).
3. Talking about mathematic performances, he worked with hyperboles, parabolas, spirals, ellipses… All this is visible in all his buildings.
4. In the “Colegio Teresiano”, he built parabolic arches and in the Sagrada Familia, he built double turn columns from the intersection of solomonic pillars.