Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Antoni Gaudi, Louis Sullivan, Lluis Domenech i Montaner, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Victor Horta, Fyodor Schechtel, Henry van de Velde, Ivan Mashkov, Eliel Saarinen, Lev Kekushev, Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco, Victor Schroter, William Walcot, Ernesto Basile, Karoly Kos, Gavriil Baranovsky, Nikita Lazarev, Illarion Ivanov-Schitz, Ilya Bondarenko, Josep Maria Jujol, Raymond Charles Pere, Virginio Colombo, James Salmon, Gustave Strauven, Francisco Gianotti, Paul Hankar, Mikhail Eisenstein, Gerrit van Arkel, Mario Palanti, Osvald Polivka, Jose Grases Riera, Ernst Gustav Kuhnert, Jacques Rosenbaum, Henri Sauvage, Vittorio Meano, Erich Jacoby, Lars Sonck, Rupert Carabin, Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, Joseph Bascourt, Karl Burman, Francesco Tamburini, Charles Andre. Excerpt: Antoni Gaudi i Cornet (Catalan pronunciation: ) (Riudoms or Reus, 25 June 1852 - Barcelona, 10 June 1926) was a Spanish Catalan architect and the best-known representative of Catalan Modernism. Gaudi's works are marked by a highly individual style and the vast majority of them are situated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Familia. Much of Gaudi's work was marked by the four passions of his life: architecture, nature, religion and his love for Catalonia. Gaudi meticulously studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts, in which he himself was skilled, such as ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. He also introduced new techniques in the treatment of the materials, such as his famous trencadis, made of waste ceramic pieces. After a few years under the influence of neo-Gothic art, and certain oriental tendencies, Gaudi became part of the Catalan Modernista movement which was then at its peak, towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning o...