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ANTONI GAUDI

Antoni Gaudi
BORN:
Baix Camp, Tarragona, Spain, 1852-1926

"For [Gaudi] even structural  forms carried an iconographic meaning, as we observe in his likening of his favorite geometrical surface--the hyperbolic paraboloid--to the Holy Trinity.  In speaking to a group of engineering students at the Sagrada Familia church in 1915, he pointed out that the hyperbolic paraboloid is generated by one straight line moving over two others, and maintained that the latter two represent the Father and Son, the moving line being the Holy Spirit which establishes communication between Father and Son (Diario de Barcelona, 9 Feb. 1915)." --"Antoni Gaudi," by George R. Collins

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