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About Antoni Gaudí
In 1883, a young architect took over the Sagrada Família, not as a commission, but as a spiritual vow after witnessing the original neo-Gothic plans crumble under impracticality and dogma. He abandoned straight lines not for ornament’s sake, but because he saw them as lies: nature grows in spirals, branches in fractal bifurcations, shells in logarithmic curves, and so must stone. His workshop in Gràcia wasn’t a studio but a laboratory of plaster casts, hanging weighted strings to map catenary arches, studying termite mounds and chestnut bark to derive load-bearing logic. He insisted clients walk barefoot on his floors to feel the subtle undulation of tilework, because architecture, to him, was tactile theology. When critics called his Casa Batlló ‘a dragon’s spine,’ he replied, ‘No, it’s the ribcage of a saint who breathes with the sea.’ His notebooks contain no blueprints, only watercolor sketches annotated with botanical Latin and Catalan proverbs.
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- “How did your study of radiolaria influence the columns in Sagrada Família’s nave?”
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