“Hacer realidad el proyecto de Gaudí es una enorme responsabilidad”, afirma Jordi Bonet en una conferencia de Forun 2012
"Making Gaudí's project a reality is an enormous responsibility," says Jordi Bonet at a lecture of Forun 2012.
The architect of the Sagrada Familia highlights that Benedict XVI's stay in Barcelona allowed a recovery of half a million visits to the monument
"To make a project of a creator like Gaudí a reality is an enormous responsibility," said Jordi Bonet at the University of Navarra. The seventh architect of the Sagrada Familia, who gave on February 16 a lecture to students of the academic center on "The Force of Beauty in Gaudí", stated that, like his predecessors, he seeks "to be faithful to the ideas of the Catalan artist".
On the framework of congress Forun 2012, Jordi Bonet referred to the influence of the crisis on the issue of visitors to the monument. "It affected us at the beginning, but the stay of Benedict XVI in Barcelona in November 2010 allowed a recovery of half a million visits last year, which we do not know how long it will last."
The architect highlighted the difficulties he has encountered during his twenty years at position of the construction of the temple, but he was convinced that "everything in the Sagrada Familia is providential". "When we have had a difficulty we have found a piece of model," he said.
Also, regarding the impact that technological advances have had on the work of planning and construction, he said that "in his day, Gaudí took advantage of the advances that existed. Nowadays, computers have helped a lot. Before, what can now be done with a computer was done by hand."
Great observer of nature
On the occasion of Forun 2012, a university congress on the transformative power of beauty that will take place in March, Jordi Bonet stressed that Gaudí was a great observer of nature. "He used a geometry of warped forms, of double curvature, very resistant, which are present in it. A ruled geometry, of straight lines, based on geometric laws that he invented," he explained.
According to the architect, "Gaudí knew that it was difficult to make this New Architecture understandable through plans; that is why he created plaster models to scale. Since plaster is not a flammable material, these models were preserved when, during the Civil War, Gaudí's workshop was destroyed and most of his plans and drawings were burned".