On our art trip to Barcelona, we got the chance
to see Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece, the Segrada Familia. It is a Roman Catholic Church that has been under construction in Barcelona since 1882 and is not expected to be complete until at least 2026 The project's vast scale and idiosyncratic design have made it one of Barcelona's (and Spain's) top tourist attractions for many years. It is my favorite piece of architecture that I have seen because the detail in all of it is so amazing, and I really love
detail in art. I love how Gaudi took his inspiration from nature to make a lot of the things in it; for example, the stairs and pillars were taken inspired by a sycamore seed falling. The outside was mainly inspired by shells. Antoni Gaudi was a very religious man, and thought that God had already solved any design problems, so he always looked to nature for his designs. He was very ill when he was young, and used to sit in fields looking at nature and making little structures with leaves and shells, which was can see in his designs.
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