Book, Conversations with Gaudi[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Gaudí became an icon. Considered one of the greatest artists of all time, his work, which seems to come from another planet, is studied at the main architecture and engineering universities in the world. But Gaudí hated writing and didn't even leave us the complete plan of the Sagrada Familia temple. His aesthetic-philosophical and mystical visions, in addition to his completely innovative construction principles, would be lost if the Catalan architect Cesar Martinell Brunet did not become his great friend and recorded his conversations with the genius architect, from 1915 to 1926. The young César Martinell Brunet, still a student, finds Gaudí a total recluse, dedicating himself exclusively to the construction of his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia. Considered eccentric, alienated and out of fashion (he was not even mentioned at the Faculty of Architecture in Barcelona), politically persecuted for affirming Catalan culture and abandoned by his friends, who fled from him to avoid requests for donations for the construction of the temple, Gaudí became He became the young architect's confidant, shaping, in these deep and inspired conversations, his entire magical, mystical and poetic universe. 'Conversations with Gaudí', which the publisher Perspectiva publishes in its Debates collection, recovers the oral Gaudí, with all his humor, insights and visionary spirit, and reveals the secrets of his constructive principles, fundamental for understanding his architecture, in a journey in which the reader, with each chapter, feels as if he were in the room with the great Catalan architect. A fundamental book for understanding his work, which will delight architects, engineers, visual artists, art history scholars, mystics and admirers of his work.