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March 15 th : GRADUATION OF THE ARCHITECT GAUDÍ "I DON'T KNOW WETHER WE ARE GRADUATING A GENIUS OR A FOOL"
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Barcelona , March 15 th 1878.- The professors of the School of Architecture of Barcelona meet the students who have successfully finished their architecture degree. Professor Elías Rogent, director of the school, initiates the presentation ceremony of the degrees. Among them stands out a young man with blond hair and blue eyes from the Campo of Tarragona. Aged 26 years old, this man would later move the world of architecture with his own personalised style. When he presented the degree to Gaudí, Rogent, who didn't feel a lot of sympathy for the young architect, pronounced the famous sentence "I don't know whether we are graduating a genius or a fool". Gaudí, brimming with satisfaction, laughed ironically and said to his friend Llorenç Matamala Flotats: “They say I am already an architect”. In order to celebrate his graduation, Gaudí had himself photographed by the prestigious photographer Adouard. This picture realised at the age of 26, is the first picture we have of the architect. The original picture is exposed in the Museum Salvador Vilaseca of Reus. |
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About the association “Gaudí & Barcelona Internet Club” The Gaudí & Barcelona Internet Club is a non-profit entity created to divulgate the life and work of Antoni Gaudí through Internet. The starting point of this association was the creation, in 1997, of the Club under the web page www.gaudiclub.com , to which the more than 15.017 present members, of all nationalities, have joined free of charge and are permanently informed of all concerning with Gaudí. The web page of the Gaudí & Barcelona Club is the most complete existing about the architect. It has also an on-line shop, where you can purchase every sort of product related with the gaudinian aestethics, and a lively forum. The Club is in touch with a great deal of art Gaudí passionates and collaborates with universities, art centres, institutions, libraries and cultural associacions of differents countries. If you need something you only have to contact with www.gaudiclub.com
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