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Nature and technology
Architects are always happy to borrow
ideas from nature. It offers them a great
variety of forms and materials, and many
principles of construction, which can inspire
more beautiful, lighter, and more stable ways
of building. The ideal is to bring design and
function together in a harmonious way.
The unfinished „Sagrada Familia“ cathedral
in Barcelona is a typical example.
Building first began in 1882: even then, its
architect Antoni Gaudi was taking his ideas
from nature, adopting various different
stylistic elements in his designs. Tree-like
pillars extend across large internal spans,
despite the use of comparitively little masonry.
The cathedral’s impressive towers are reminiscent
of a diatom’s siliceous skeleton. ■
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