This Is Gaud , Hardcover

Antoni Gaud has a reputation as monastic, mad, and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona's cityscape was no mad eccentric. He was a genius inspired by his faith in nature and the divine.

Picking up the same strands of eclecticism and art nouveau current in fin de si cle European architecture, he transformed them into an idiom unique to himself and Barcelona to create a series of buildings as revolutionary in their engineering as they were astonishing for their spaces.

For Gaud his work was his life, and this book reveals the exuberant world and groundbreaking work of this unique figure in the history of modern architecture.

About the Author:

Christina Christoforou is a London-based illustrator and artist. She has produced work for The New York Times, Penguin Publishing, and the National Theatre of Greece, and has worked as a lecturer in communication design. Her publications include Whose Hair? (2010), This is Bacon (2013), and This is Leonardo da Vinci (2016).

Mollie Claypool teaches at the Architectural Association and the Bartlett School of Architecture.