Gaudí vs Le Corbusier: should a building grow or be engineered?

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ANTONI GAUDÍ vs LE CORBUSIER go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

ANTONI GAUDÍ

There are no straight lines in nature, my friend—so why should there be any in my cathedral? I let the tree and the bone dictate the column.

LE CORBUSIER

Because a house is a machine for living in, and your Sagrada Família has been under construction for a lifetime! I give the worker light, air, and a roof in a fraction of the time.

ANTONI GAUDÍ

You give him a box and call it liberation; I give him the sky filtered through color, and he weeps. Ornament is not crime—it is prayer in stone.

LE CORBUSIER

Prayer is lovely, Antoni, but the millions need shelter now—I would rather house a city than perfect a single spire for a hundred years.

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