Gaudí vs Wren: should stone kneel or command?

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

ANTONI GAUDÍ

I do not invent forms, señor Wren—I copy God's own catalog: the tree, the bone, the seashell's spiral.

WREN

And I rebuilt London from ashes with mathematics and a dome that stands because it obeys me, not the ferns.

ANTONI GAUDÍ

Your straight line is human, Sir Christopher; the curve belongs to the divine—my Sagrada Família grows like a forest of prayer.

WREN

A noble forest, but I finished St Paul's in my lifetime—yours still waits for a roof, and heaven is patient but Londoners are not.

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