Its 161st birthday of the famous Spanish God’s architect Antoni Gaudi whose distinctive style has left a mark on Barcelona. Born on June 25, 1852 in Reus, Gaudi is remembered for his unique and creative architectural designs.   Gaudi's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.

Much of Gaudi's work was marked by his big passions in life: architecture, nature, religion. Gaudi studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts in which he was skilled: ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces.

In his final period of career, He dedicated his career exclusively to sagrada familia,a naturalistic style which was a accumulation of all the styles and solutions , he has tried until then. His work was a mixture of all the arts under one structure; it was a bit logical one.

Gaudi was an passionate Catholic. In his later years, he left secular work and devoted his life to Catholicism and his Sagrada Família. . Soon after work began, his closest family and friends began to die. His works slowed to a halt, and his attitude changed. Perhaps one of his closest family members, his niece Rosa Egea, died in 1912, followed by a "loyal collaborator, Francesc Berenguer Mestres" two years later. After both tragedies, Barcelona fell on hard times economically. The construction of La Sagrada Família slowed; the construction of La Colonia Guell ceased altogether. Four years later, Eusebi Güell, his patron, died.

Perhaps it was because of this unlucky sequence of events that Gaudi changed. He became reluctant to talk with reporters or have his picture taken, and solely concentrated on his masterpiece, La Sagrada Família.

On June 7, 1926, Antoni Gaudí was run over by a Street car (tram). Because of his ragged attire and empty pockets, a number of cab drivers refused to pick him up for fear that he would be unable to pay the fare. He was eventually taken to a pauper's hospital in Barcelona. Nobody recognized the injured artist until his friends found him the next day. When they tried to move him into a nicer hospital, Gaudí refused, reportedly saying: "I belong here among the poor." He died five days later on June 12, 1926.

Half of Barcelona cried over  his death. He was buried in the midst of La Sagrada Família. Because he did not use blueprints for his unfinished masterpiece but worked from his creative act, his fellow workers could not complete it. Because of this, Gaudí is known to many in Spain as "God's Architect." La Sagrada Família is now being restored but differences between his work and the new additions can be noticed.