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The formal nomenclature"El Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Fami´lia"
The expression of English is is Works of Antoni Gaudi´.

The architect is Antoni Gaudi´i Cornet.
He was born in 1852 in Spain and the Catalunya area.

Gaudi learnt construction from 1873 to 1877 in Barcelona.
Gel mansion.
Gel park.
Casa Mira etc.
A lot of works constructed in Barcelona are registered in World Heritage.

The feature of his construction is organic beauty.
I feel the life in the detail.
Apartment house like tree.
The outside wall like lava.
They are excellent in originality.
They are exactly a property of the town.

Antoni Gaudi.
Such a man is not around there.

Gaudi spent later years as an ardent Catholic.
After 1914, all energy was poured into the construction of Sagrada Familia.
Gaudi was run over while facing the Mass by the tram on June 7, 1926.
Age at death 73. Construction is being incompletely continued as for Sagrada Familia now.
It is said that the schedule of completion is about 2026.

Four heavenward towers.
They soars to the sky as the prayer reaches.

It is his continuation of the dream.