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Sagrada Familia...is the greatest piece of creative architecture in the last twenty-five years. It is spirit symbolised in stone!
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Louis Sullivan. From Thomas E. Tallmadge, "The Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family," in Western Architect, XXXI (March 1922).

 

Antonio Gaudi

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