TASCHEN's Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen- yeat-old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne,Germany, to market his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishing catalogs promoting his wares, but it wasn't until 1984 that his first art-book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies of a Magritte book printed in English,reselling them for a fraction of their original price. From a young age,Taschen had been interested in art but found that art books were too expensive and hard to obtain, and the success of this daring move proved that Tasehen was not alone in thinking that the artbook market should be democratized...

Gaudi-A Life Devoted to

Architecture

Casa Vicens

Casa El Capricho

The Giuell Pavilions

Guell Palace

Colegio Teresiano

Casa Calvet

The Guell Colony Crypt

Bellesguard

Guell Park

Casa Batll6

Casa Mila

The Sagrada Familia

Finca Miralles

Palma Cathedral

The Bishop's Palace in Astorga

Casa de los Botines

Hotel in New York

The Guell Bodegas

Antoni Gaudi- His Life and Work

Location Map of the Works

Bibliography