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Antoni Gaudí and Frei Otto: Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto
Author(s) -
Burry Mark
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2021
Subject(s) - manifesto , work (physics) , art history , environmental ethics , sociology , philosophy , art , law , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering
As Senior Architect to the Basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Mark Burry has been ‘thinking parametrically’ for almost his entire career. Here he describes how his longstanding role overseeing the completion of Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece has afforded unique insights into the work of a great geometer and parametric thinker. Burry places the contribution of Gaudí alongside that of Frei Otto – the other eminent 20th‐century Proto‐Parametricist.