The Unfulfilled Vision Of A Unique Architect

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In 1910, during the Paris Exhibition, one project stole the show. It was a plaster model of a church designed by the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi - a design so daring and outrageous that it was difficult to believe anyone seriously consider building it.

Not only was this unconventional design approved and commissioned but at the time of the exhibition the church was already under construction. Gaudi himself had been working on the Church of the Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family) in Barcelona since 1883. He continued to work on it until his death in 1926. The church is still unfinished today.