Staircase and columns, Crypta Guell, Colonia Guell

Staircase and brick columns resembling trees, reflecting the wooded setting of the church, inside the Crypta Guell, built 1898-1915, an unfinished church by Catalan Modernist architect Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in the Colonia Guell, a workers colony set up by Eusebi Guell in Santa Coloma de Cervello, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The church is an organic hyperbolic paraboloid shape, with leaning pillars of basalt and brick and catenary arches supporting the structure and brick ribs vaults supporting the ceiling. The colony was begun in 1890 on Guell's estate Can Soler de la Torre, with a hospital, boardinghouse, schools, shops, theatres, chapel, factories and workers housing. Gaudi was in charge of the project, collaborating with Francesc Berenguer, Joan Rubio and Josep Canaleta. Gaudi's crypt is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom and United States Of America

Antoni Bacigalupi Banister Basalt Brickwork Catenary Cervello Coloma Colonia Cornet Cripta Crypt Crypta Eusebi Gaudi Gaudis Guell Guells Hyperbolic Modernism Modernisme Modernist Modernista Organic Paraboloid Soler Torre Twisted Vault Vaulted

Features In These Collections

> Contributors > COH