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La evolución de la construcción del Templo de la Sagrada Familia

2009; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 61; Issue: 516 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/ic.08.057

1988-3234

Ramón Espel, Jiménez Gómez, Rosa Grima, A. Aguado,

Medieval Architecture and Archaeology

Despite its unfinished state, the Temple of the Holy Family, or Sagrada Familia, is Antoni Gaudi’s most widely recognized work and one of the most important milestones in the development of Catalan Modernism. This article follows and describes the evolution of the construction of the temple, highlighting the challenges which it has faced when searching for viable constructive solutions for Gaudi’s architecture. Throughout history the construction materials have been adapted to the needs of each of the elements which had to be built. Although, at the end of s. XIX, Gaudi built mostly in traditional masonry, he spent years studying the rest of the Temple and the different materials that could be built. This text continues to describe as collaborators of Gaudi’s work could continue the construction after his death and how, in recent years, recent advances in constructive processes and materials have been introduced in the Temple. This continuous innovation process can be exemplified by the concrete used for special tasks at present or the cutting-edge Computer Assisted Design techniques which aid in the construction process.