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Antoni Gaudí and Frei Otto: Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto

2016; Wiley; Volume: 86; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/ad.2021

1554-2769

Mark Burry,

Historical Art and Architecture Studies

As Senior Architect to the Basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Mark Burry has been ‘thinking parametrically’ for almost his entire career. Here he describes how his longstanding role overseeing the completion of Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece has afforded unique insights into the work of a great geometer and parametric thinker. Burry places the contribution of Gaudí alongside that of Frei Otto – the other eminent 20th‐century Proto‐Parametricist.