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Architect Antonio Gaudi blended the movements known as Art Nouveau and Neo-Gothic. Gaudi himself considered architecture to be a living sculpture and he sought to create what he named the "Mediterranean Gothic." Taking the classic elements of Greek architecture, the characteristics of Gothic cathedrals, and the decorative nature motives of the Romantic movement, he worked to adapt architecture to the Mediterranean climate. Gaudi is described as "the architect who perhaps more than any other in the nineteenth century recognized the lo