In the sixth season of “How I Met Your Mother”, a popular American series, part of the third episode shows Ted Mosby, the central character, giving a lecture to his class. He is a professor of architecture and the subject of the day is evidently a certain Antoni Gaudí. “Unfinished,” he says. “Of all the words you can use to describe La Sagrada Familia: brown, pointy, strange… the only one that really seems to stick is Unfinished. Why? Because on June 7, 1926, the architect Antoni Gaudí, whose beard was also brown, pointed, strange and unfinished, was hit by a bus.” I later learned that it was a streetcar, not a bus, that hit him, but I digress. What was really surprising about this final part of his lecture, aside from the combination of three words: “brown, spiky, strange,” was the strangeness of it all. And “eccentric” is the word that perhaps best summarizes Gaudí's entire style. His is a style that was not only well ahead of its time, but today represents a class all its own, in all its surreal splendor and beauty. The name “Antoni Gaudí” is synonymous with a particular brand of style. Although his career began in the 19th century, it was precisely when the world began its journey into a new century, the 20th, that his style truly matured and found a distinct originality that set it apart from the rest of the architecture of the time . . It was with this style that Gaudí established himself as a pioneer of Naturalism and a central figure in Modernism. Characterized by the incorporation of simple elements of nature, such as flowers, tree branches and animals, it is also manifested in the juxtaposition of geometric masses, the mind-blowing animation of brick or stone patterned surfaces, bright ceramic tiles, as well as flora...... middle of paper ......born first, she then created the type of structure called balanced, and used it for both Casa Batlló and Casa Milà. Antoni Gaudí was a revolutionary architect and designer, as well as a visionary. While he was considered eccentric and strange, and indeed was initially ridiculed and humiliated by his peers when he started out, nothing speaks volumes about him more than the legacy and legacy he left behind. It is a testament to his skill and genius that he has continued to capture and enrapture our visual senses and imaginations, so many years after his death. Although his final work is far from complete, I think it is safe to say that he has come a long way from being a coppersmith's son, and is in fact a much more distinguished figure than the simple bearded man he was brown, pointy, strange and unfinished. He is truly an inspiration.