LA SAGRADA FAMILIA

 

A partir de la la visita de Benedicto XVI, el templo de la Sagrada Familia de Gaudí se ha revitalizado. Las visitas a este templo, incluyendo las locales, se han incrementado y la figura de Antonio Gaudí ha adquirido nuevas dimensiones.
Con la visita de Benedicto XVI en una ceremonia que incluía tanto el catalán como el castellano, dio un ejemplo de equidad lingüística y de comprensión histórica de la realidad catalana.

Del ”National Geographic Magazine” (Extractos)
. My client is not in a hurry," Antoni Gaudí used to say. The pious architect was speaking of God, explaining why the Roman Catholic Sagrada Família church was taking so long to complete. Nearly a century later it remains a work in progress—a dream of spires and ornate facades rising hundreds of feet above downtown Barcelona, drawing the eyes (and euros) of some two million visitors a year. This November Pope Benedict XVI consecrated it as a basilica. A final completion date of 2026 appears likely. And if history begets history, the time is ripe to reappraise Gaudí's epic endeavor—and the prescient ideas behind it.

Adrian Bejan says the facades of the Sagrada Família are based on the golden ratio, the geometric proportion "behind all aesthetically pleasing art." The distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University, whose "constructal law" states that design in nature is a universal phenomenon of physics, calls Gaudí a forebear and a "tightrope walker on the line bridging art gn='middle' border='0' />