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To: NorthMountain

Personally, despite absolutely loving Gaudi’s whimsical buildings (there’s a delightful one with a roof that looks like a dragon curled up sleeping), and regarding Sagrada Familia as a tour-de-force of engineering (Gaudi used analogue computation done by hanging weighted sheets and looking at them in mirrors on the floor to find the optimal shape for his towers — you can’t build towers taller than that by stacking stones one on another without them being weaker), I think the building is uuugggly! (Especially on the outside — the columns like towering trees in the nave are quite nice.)


10 posted on 04/30/2015 12:51:26 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David
I think the building is uuugggly!

De gustibus non disputandem. I think it's beautiful, and fascinating. To me it's "gothic meets Buck Rogers".

13 posted on 04/30/2015 12:59:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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