How Did Anton Gaudi Influence Architecture

Upon Antoni Gaudi’s graduation, he initially began working in the same Victorian style of his predecessors, but it was not long until he began to develop his own unique style with Art Nouveau. Gaudi is actually the one who led this movement in architecture in Spain. He used what he called nature’s organic shapes, the parabolic arch, or catenary curve. Gaudi did admire some Gothic architecture of the time, but he would call buttresses “architectural crutches.” It was that kind of thinking that helped him to create the parabolic arch that was so greatly used in the construction of the Basilica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, also just known as La Sagrada