Barcelona Apr 1-6 : Gaudi Tour Part 2

Now the Bakers house was very popular in that time. A man saw it and decided he wanted Gaudi to build a building from the ground up and make it better than the Bakers house. So Gaudi drew him a line drawing of the exterior of the building which was a rough black and white drawing. The man loved it thinking it would be better than the Bakers house.

Well it didn't turn quite like the owner wanted. This house is just down the street from the Bakers house. Do you think it looks better or similar to the Bakers house? Nope. Well neither did the owners and decided not to pay Gaudi for his work, well the court thought otherwise. Now Gaudi is a man that put little things here and there in the front of the building as a symbolism for what he thought of the owners.


It is quite a larger building and people thought this was ugly and harsh. They wanted it torn down. They all loved the Bakers house, but not this one.


Here is a close up.


Now as I said before about the symbolism, if you look at the middle balcony there is a bird in the middle. Now this bird creates its nest out of it own shit. It is called 'The Shitter Bird'. Also in another balcony he added a greek mask which shown that the owner was a Jackal and Mr. Hyde kind of guy. Let's just say Gaudi didn't like these people.


Now the doors were pretty cool this is looking out from the inside.


This is the door open, which was on my door blog too.


Interesting handle for these massive doors.


Shots of the inside. Gaudi liked smooth walls and wave like shapes on the ceiling.


Here it shows more of the curve from wall to the ceiling and the added curves near the columns.