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...flat glass. Now they have begun to find their world pretty stark. Seeking inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
Architecture Is Sculpture. Most dramatic example is the revival of interest in the buildings of Barcelona Architect Antoni Gaudi (TIME, Jan. 28, 1952), whose work in the early decades of the century would have rated him a place on the couch in midcentury. Precisely because Gaudi's work stands opposed to the main line of development taken by contemporary architecture, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter staged a two-month-long exhibit of his work (see color page), discovered that it had a popular, stimulating and controversial show. Said the museum's director of architecture...
Even in his native Catalonia, Antoni Gaudi, who died at 73 in 1926, was considered unique and eccentric. His weird and wonderful gatehouses, animal or vegetable apartment-house façades and phantasmal parks that out-Disney Disneyland delighted Barcelonians, even when they were surfaced for economy's sake in broken tiles, old pots and broken glass. Gaudi's greatest problem was that his designs demanded a craftsman's skill to execute and his on-the-spot presence to construct...
Like Graham Greene, Irish Novelist Hanley dotes on the guilt on the candelabra. He has given his protagonist the usual "failed-priest face," the customary taste for booze, and the symbolical death -Brennan falls from the height of Gaudi's grotesque unfinished Barcelona Church of the Holy Family. It is all pretty thick stuff, but an angry, eloquent passion against the paralyzing Red ticks in Europe's soft underbelly redeems it from mere melodrama...
...Bore Room. By the. time the crypt was completed and the main part of the building started, the original money was almost gone. Eventually, Gaudi gave up his life as a fashionable architect, sold his house and horses, put all his resources into the church-building fund. He moved into the construction yard adjoining the church, slept on a cot in a small bare room. In 1914, when all funds were exhausted, Gaudi went on a door-to-door pilgrimage through Catalonia, begged enough money to keep working. Said Gaudi philosophically: "The landlord of this building has eternity before...