A Look at the Complete Works of Antoni Gaudí

His investigation into classical architecture extended to Barcelona’s Parc Güell, where Doric-inspired columns fill the market hall. But in signature Gaudí style, the ceiling is decorated with colorful mosaics. The park was built between 1900 and 1914.

An earlier project constructed between 1878 and 1888, Casa Vicens in Barcelona has wrought-iron balconies that display similarities to many Art Nouveau structures. But its colorful mosaic-clad façade is definitively Gaudí.

Built between 1883 and 1885, the El Capricho house in the town of Comillas in Northern Spain has a minaret inspired by the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran.

Gaudí was known for using some unusual building materials—the finials shown here, found in Parc Güell, are decorated with mosaics made from broken coffee cups.