The Odd Couple in Barcelona: Anton Gaudi & Robert Hughes

LiteraryTraveler July 23, 2008

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by Tom McGuire
"What is that?" I wondered the first time I saw it. I should have asked the name. I later found it out: the Church of the Holy Family or La Sagrada Familia. It was 1985, my first time in Barcelona and while I couldn't see the church for its construction cranes, I would come to know it and its architect, Anton Gaudi well - thanks to the Australian writer, Robert Hughes.
A confraternity dedicated to Saint Joseph started La Sagrada Familia. The first stone was placed on March 1882 and is still unfinished. The very Catholic Gaudi said, "The work on the Sagrada Familia progresses v...

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