STEAM Gaudí architecture innovations
The idea of fostering creativity to promote critical thinking and the use of engineering or technology in imaginative ways to solve real-world problems could spread lending the letter A for arts and architecture being added to the STEM acronym.
The architectural studies, in all their various forms and related skills are critical components to innovation, and by incorporating them to complement the scientific approach will only strengthen the chances to success. Artistic and design related skills will spark the imagination, produce more creative endeavours and bring about further innovation.
Antoni Gaudi – A Man of Innovations
The Antoni Gaudí architecture brought both constructional and functional innovations, including biomimicry, the use of hyperbolic paraboloid vaults, the use of inverted scale models of the proposed structures, integration of iron and reinforcement of concrete into construction, a way of designing ceramic mosaics from waste pieces, a new technique for stained glass, etc.
Antoni Gaudí once explained that architects must possess “remarkable aptitudes and iron discipline”:
[The architect is] the synthetic man who sees things clearly as a whole before they are done, who situates and connects the elements in their plastic relationship and at the right distance, like their static quality and polychrome sense.
Gaudí’s created imaginative architectural designs that changed Modern Architecture.
Presentation made by $ESO Computer Science students STEAM-1920-gaudi
