An illuminating biography of one of the most famous--and most famously unfinished--buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona.
Rich in detail and vast in scope, this is a revelatory chronicle of an iconic structure, its place in history, and the wild genius that created it..
Gijs van Hensbergen\'s The Sagrada Familia explores the evolution of this remarkable building, working through the decades right up to the present day before looking beyond to the final stretch of its construction.
And it has passed through the landmark changes of twentieth-century Spain, surviving two World Wars, the ravages of the Spanish Civil War, and the Hunger Years of Franco\'s rule.
It has enchanted and frustrated the citizens of Barcelona.
It has defied the critics, the penny-pinching accountants, the conservative town-planners, and the devotees of sterile modernism.
More than a century after the first stone was laid in 1882, the Sagrada Familia remains unfinished, a testament to Gaud \'s quixotic ambition, his religious devotion, and the sensuous eccentricity of his design.
The scaffolding-cloaked spires of Antoni Gaud \'s masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, dominate the Barcelona skyline and draw in millions of visitors every year.
An illuminating biography of one of the most famous--and most famously unfinished--buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona
