Codi Gaudí

"You have it and you don't know it!" Doctors could not believe that the old man with the long beard and torn clothes who had been hit by the Barcelona tram was Antoni Gaudí. How did he end up like this, the greatest architect of his time? With the literary temperament of the best novels, Codi Gaudí narrates the life of the architect of Reus and surprises us with a deeply human character who stands at the antipodes of the sacralized Gaudí, popularized by tourist guides. Armed with the scalpel of technical rigor and critical admiration, Joan Bosch traces the psychological evolution of the arrogant and successful young man who climbed the steps of the Barcelona upper middle class to later taste the gall of failure and the indifference of his contemporaries. Splashed with explanatory illustrations, Codi Gaudí invites us to understand the reason for the unprecedented success of Gaudí's architecture and the contradictory nature of man behind the mask of genius. A renewed and current look at the life and work of one of the most formidable personalities in the history of our country.