Yesterday was Gaudi's 150th birthday. I was an architecture student at the University of Washington (Seattle) in the early 60's. It was a nice conservative Bauhaus school. We learned to love Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Le Corbusier. But I also learned to love the art nouveau exuberance of Gaudi. Barcelona, the home to many Gaudi buildings, is on my list of places to see before I die, along with St. Peter's in Rome, and the Daytona 500.

Antoni Gaudi
Barcelona is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of its most famous architect and designer. Here are the best Gaudi sites on the web