Gaudí

GAUDÍ: HIS BIOGRAPHY

Antoni Gaudi was born in 1852 in Tarragona in a family of artisans. He was the first Gaudi in over four generations to leave the family tradition of metalworking. He moved to Barcelona in 1873 and began his architectural education at the Provincial School of Architecture. Although he did noy have superior grades, he earned "excellent" marks in the courses of Trial drawings and projects. Descriptions of "insane" and "genius" werw used to talk about the artist.