One quick blog before leaving tomorrow. The class went to Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Church, which is the most famous building in Barcelona and one of the most famous in Spain. I have been interested in Gaudi's work and Sagrada Familia ever since I studied them in high school. Gaudi spent half of this life working on this church and it is still not finished. Because his plans and models got destroyed in the Spanish Civil War it has been a difficult job finishing the church the way he wanted it. Now because of CAD (computer animated design) technology they are replicating Gaudi's craftsmanship digitally and the church should be completed by 2026. And they are working really hard to do so, there were cranes and drills and all sorts of things at work when we went. What was there was amazing though. The amount of geometry and structural craftsmanship that went into the building is mindblowing. I sat there sketching the columns for about an hour and just walked around the building for a half hour. I didn't stop to look at the museum exhibits with the tourists because i didn't want to detract from the building's affect on my experience. The Passion facade in the back was the most stunning.
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