The latest news and comment on Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí
October 2024
Notebook
Is Gaudí’s slave trade-funded park a blot on Barcelona’s landscape?
Rowan Moore
It is little explored that the father of the great architect’s patron, Eusebi Güell, made much of his fortune from slavery in Cuba
March 2024
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’
New date for Antoni Gaudí’s basilica announced but enormous, controversial stairway will take another eight years
January 2023
Modern gadgets in the style of Gaudí – in pictures
Marcus Byrne’s household appliances mirror the Spanish architect’s colourful style
October 2022
Objects of Desire review – surreal lobster phones and a seaside sleazorama
A lamp in the form of a life-size horse, a chair made of soft toys, a lips settee begging to be bonked on – this delightful orgy of bad taste highlights perverse surrealist design from Dalí to today
November 2021
Huge star atop Sagrada Família rekindles residents’ complaints
Locals in Barcelona accuse religious foundation in charge of Gaudí‘s masterpiece of highhandedness
April 2020
'Now there is nobody': living in a tourist attraction under lockdown
Ana Viladomiu lives in La Pedrera, Gaudí’s modernist masterpiece, and is used to thousands of visitors a day
November 2019
Soaring arches, broken tiles: why Gaudí’s style was perfect for Senegal
Experts from Barcelona combined local techniques and materials with the tradition of the Catalan master to build new school
June 2019
Gaudí's Sagrada Família wins a building permit – 137 years after work began
Spanish architect’s masterpiece still unfinished but there’s now a chance its central towers will be completed
November 2017
On the radar
Gaudí opening to lead Barcelona’s tourism comeback
The first house designed by the iconic architect – exuberant Casa Vicens in the beleaguered city’s Gràcia district – opens to the public later this month. ‘This could be a moment of peace,’ says its manager
September 2016
On the radar
Gaudí’s partner in iconic Barcelona design finally gets the limelight
Josep Maria Jujol’s contribution to Gaudí’s Barcelona masterpieces, and those he created himself in Catalonia, have been overlooked. A new documentary seeks to give him the recognition he deserves
January 2016
The 10 best ...
The 10 best concrete buildings
From the astonishing Pantheon to a Chilean cliff-top villa, here are some of the world’s best concrete structures
November 2015
A great little place I know
Not so Familia: visit Antoni Gaudí’s first project – just outside Barcelona
The Nau Gaudí, 30km from Barcelona, was the first building designed by the great Catalan architect, when he was just 26. Today its elegant interior showcases contemporary art
October 2015
Sagrada Família enters final construction phase – in pictures
The final phase of construction of the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona has begun
June 2015
A history of cities in 50 buildings
Barcelona's Sagrada Família: Gaudí's 'cathedral for the poor' – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 49
Giles Fraser arrived in Barcelona not expecting to like Antoni Gaudí’s monumental creation – derided by George Orwell as ‘one of the most hideous buildings in the world’. But then he went inside ...
January 2015
Chile set to build Antoni Gaudí’s first completed project outside Spain
Our Lady of the Angels chapel, based on sketches completed in 1915 by the architect, to be built in Rancagua
November 2014
The Bolivian architect whose “New Andean” style is transforming El Alto
Like Gaudí in Barcelona or Niemeyer in Brasília, Freddy Mamani has the chance to shape the aesthetics of an entire city
July 2014
Top 10s in art
The top 10 skyscrapers in art
From Warhol's eight-hour epic Empire to Gaudí's plans for his own Hotel Attraction, the high-rise has loomed large in the artistic imagination, writes Jonathan Jones
June 2014
Top 10 city guides
Top 10 free things to do in Barcelona
From Gaudí and Picasso to street parties and outdoor movies, we pick the best attractions and local haunts to help you enjoy Barcelona for free
June 2013
Antoni Gaudí: a doodle for the master architect of the Sagrada Familia
Jonathan Jones on art
Why Gaudí's birthday deserves its Google doodle celebration
A history of cities in 50 buildingsBarcelona's Sagrada Família: Gaudí's 'cathedral for the poor' – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 49Giles Fraser arrived in Barcelona not expecting to like Antoni Gaudí’s monumental creation – derided by George Orwell as ‘one of the most hideous buildings in the world’. But then he went inside ...
