But it is no longer a work of Gaudí. It cannot overcome the central paradox, which is that Gaudí's architecture was organic, living and responsive, whereas posthumous simulation of his ideas makes them fixed and lifeless. The fusion, the melting, the integration of structure and ornament and the demented frenzy that drove Gaudí to do strange things with comatose turkeys and dead babies cannot be replicated. — Guardian
Rowan Moore asks, now that the 130-year labour of love that is Barcelona's Sagrada Família could soon be at an end, does it truly reflect Gaudí's intentions, or vision?
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Part-Gaudí, part-other people... And he asked for these other people —or whoever is in charge in 10 years or it was 50 years ago— to continue the works. So, if the building is not Gaudí, the idea of continuing it it is.
What betrays more his project: deny his plans of finishing the works by whatever architects come after him —he compared the SF to a gothic cathedral, where master masons came one after another—, or stopping it and leave it as a touristy ruin?
Impossible to decide. His wishes and his project are incompatible.
But then, Gaudí was a very strange person. Little love life, too much religion: delusions of grandeur (but with some interesting ideas, for sure).
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