The 25th of June 2022, marked 170 years since the birth of Antoni Gaudí, the greatest representative of Catalan Modernism, and we celebrate this day by sharing the story of his life and remembering his work.
Gaudí was born in 1852, in Reus, Tarragona, then the second most important city in Catalonia, spending much of his childhood in the province's countryside. The geology of the site, its flora and fauna, exerted a great influence on his later architectural ideas. His father's job, as a coppersmith, also had a significant influence on his personality in formal and constructive terms: he constantly saw him moulding and bending copper plates with his hammer to create vessels in which he would later distil spirits.
