The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
Instead, he focussed on a much different project: a basilica that was to rise on the outskirts of the burgeoning city. He wasn’t the project’s original architect—a more conventional designer, Francisco de Paula del Villar, had quit after a budget dispute. Gaudí pushed the plans in a radical direction. The world, he believed, had seen enough ogival windows and flying buttresses on cathedrals. “Let us have architecture without archeology,” he proclaimed. The project eventually became Gaudí’s sole