Comparing the Casa Batlló building designed by Antoni Gaudí with the cellular tissues in an organism can provide us with a harmonized and premeditated setting between the human residence and its natural surroundings.

The building is located in Passeig de Gràcia, a magnificent boulevard in the centre of Barcelona and one of the most prestigious avenues of Spain. This area includes luxurious shopping and business buildings and the headquarters of the big banking institutions.

Gaudi was the leading architect of the emerged Modernisme in Catalonia, Spain, who used floral and organic forms in his architectural designs. He integrated the applied art of stained glass, wrought iron, ceramics and carpentry into his building designs.

The ground floor’s façade consists of five sandstone columns framed four arches of the building entrance. On the first floor, the six fine sculptural columns support the organic shaped curvy stone facade and the stained, glazed oval openings behind them.

Casa Milà(La Pedrera), the Catalan modernist building in Barcelona, has an unusual but stylish appearance that mimics a large carved rock. La Pedrera, in Spanish, literally means “stone quarry”. Roser Segimón and his wife Pere Milà, from the leading upper-class members of Spain and the first owners of the building, commissioned Anthony Gaudi in 1905 to build apartments for the rent and in part for their residence.

The self-supporting facade of La Pedrera, enables large openings and provides more light into the building. Moreover, it permits the relocations of the internal walls and the privilege of modifying the interior layout readily. The undulating stony building frontage with the twisting wrought-iron balconies includes organic motifs inspired by the natural shapes of clouds, waves, hills and mountains.

Four apartments on each floor supply a view on the main facade and are organized around the large inner courtyards, allowing lighting and ventilation for all rooms. The facades of two huge internal patios deserve the same significance as the exterior facades. Both interior and exterior facades incorporate ornamental forms and naturalistic patterns.

Art Nouveau became fashionable in various civilizations in the last half of the nineteenth century, especially in applied arts and architecture. But everywhere, it was adapted to the cultural effects of the place and emerged with its unique indigenous characteristics. Antoni Gaudi, best considered the pioneer of Spanish Art Nouveau, took advantage of three influential forces. These three significant factors were his artistic approach, his vigorous religious ideology, and his local cultural tradition within the features of Catalan nature. The next step was integrating those forces with his imaginative, poetic creations in a contemporary concept and an innovative, stylish framework.

Antoni Gaudi hadn’t perfect health as a child and suffered from rheumatism. He had to spend most of his childhood in the countryside, away from the chaos and bustling city life. Close to nature and fascinated by its beauty of organic patterns and textures, he used those natural themes in his designs when he started later his artistic career.

The highlights of his works are Parque Güell; Casa Batlló; Casa Mila; Casa Vicens and La Sagrada Familia. Here I will briefly mention some particulars about his architectural designs.