Psychology!
... in charge of the Sagrada Familia project, the only 31 year old Gaudí took over the direction on November 3rd, 1883 from Francesc de Paula Villar, the dioceses architect, who has resigned. Until his death, 34 years later, he was working in the Sagrada Familia. For Güell, Gaudi began works in the Palau Güell 1885, located in the old town, today just offside the Ramblas in the middle of the Barrio Chine, one of the less comfortable quarters of the City. In his palace, Güell gathered around him various intellectuals, Gaudí was a frequent Guest and during this period, he discovered the theroies of John Ruskin, which produced dicussions in Barcelona at this time. Still working on the Palau Güell, he erected the pavillon of the Compañia Transatlántica for the maritime exhibition in Cadiz. One year later another pavillon of the same company was added for the world exposition in Barcelona. The navigation company (at this time the biggest in Spain), was owned ny Güells, brother-in-law, the Marqués de Comillas. 1887 another order interrupted the works on the Sagrada Familia and the Palau Güell: The Bishop of Astorga, Juan Grau, called him to León to replace the old episcopal palace, which was destroyed by fire, by a new one. Gaudí stopped his engagement after the sudden death of Grau in 1890; the episcopal Palace was finished by Luis de Guereta, an architect from Marid. Just having returned to Barcelona, Gaudí took care of another ecclesiastical building, Convento Teresiano, which was finished 1894. On the background of the orders statutes of econmoy, this building strongly marked - quite contrary to his earlier works - neo-gothic elements. Beeing economic wasn't always easy for Gaudí, crazy about details: As the client, Reverend Enrique Ossó, criticized him for his increasinly high invoices, Gaudí answered: „Everybody on his part, Reverend Enrique, ich build houses, you preach and say the mass.“ Always it has been Gaudís intention to include other arists in his arhitecture (for him, architecture was the mother of arts). However, this cooperation wasn't completely without difficulties this due to this attitude, and even with close friends like Carles Maní, with whom he worked on the Casa Mila, the relationship wasn't without tensions. Two ideals dominated Gaudís understanding of architecture: One was the idea of a „mediterranean Gothic“, which was adapting the structural basics of the Gothic to the light and climate of the mediterranean, the other was the continuation of catholicism in architecture. Gaudí intended „Gothic not of the dusky north, but of the bright sunshine“. Despite all this, Gaudí was influenced by his time and the ideas of a romantic renaissance . From 1898 to 1904 Gaudí worked on the Casa Calvet in the Carrer Casp, and 1901 he was awarded the price of the city of Barcelona - the only award he ever got. In 1898 as well he got an order from his promotor Güell to build housings and a social infrastructure for the workers of his factory in Santa Coloma de Cervelló. Gaudí used the chapel there as an experimental plattform for other constructions, and many of what later should become real at the Sagrada Familia, was tried out here first. Also, the diagonal pillars for the teracce at the Parc Güell were used here first. The construction at the workers colony were never finished, and also in the Parc Güell, which was planned as a garden colony, just a few houses were completed. From 1906 on Gaudí himself lived the together with his father and his niece. 1905 works start on the Casa Battló at the Passeig de Gracia, where Gaudís Ideas of colors are shown very characteristically. In the same year, construction began on Casa Milá, also called „La Pedrera“ (the quarry): „This was Gaudíis last and most ambitious plan of an apartment complex, it stands symbolic for all he ever tried to reach“. This project also remained unfinished; t...