Gaudi brief biography of maya
Antoni Gaudí was a renowned Catalan architect known for his highly original style that drew inspiration from nature.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was born in Reus, Tarragona, a 25 June Gaudí's family origins go back to the South of France, in Auvergne..
Anyways, the following school year Gaudi is back to Barcelona and starts working as an apprentice and draughtsman for the architect Josep Fontsere (whose father was from a village near Reus and Riudoms), hoping that’ll help paying for his studies.
However, it’ll take him two more years to pass the exams to be accepted in the School of Architecture. In the meantime, in 1872 breaks out the Third Carlist War, but Gaudi isn’t mobilized yet.
In 1873 he prepares again to pass the admission exams for the School of Architecture and starts writing what now is known as the “Manuscript of Reus” a compilation of sketched and handwritten texts about the family farmhouse, his thoughts about art, and personal diary.
It’s one of the very few documents written by Gaudi that has been preserved, and it includes from 1973 until 1977.
Antoni Gaudi is finally requested to join the military service in 1874, but by then he’s finally been accepted in the School