ANTONI GAUDÍ - David Ferrer Book color_beige-brown turning the book’s own format

turning the book’s own format into a metaphor for the memory and coexistence of images of the past and the present

Richly illustrated with collages and archival postcards

crafted from supple shiny lambskin

Moneo’s designs prove to be subjects with lives of their own

and the large desolate and desert black and white landscapes

ANTONI GAUDÍ - David Ferrer Book color_beige-brown turning the book’s own formatThis monographic study approaches Gaud (1852 1926) in his most essential role: as the designer who synthesised art and technique. David Ferrer analyses numerous designs from such disparate fields as wrought ironwork and flooring with the purpose of explaining their genesis, concluding that, beneath their apparent plastic irrationalism, behind their dreamy, fantastic forms, lays a strict functional logic based on the rationalistic ideas of Viollet le