Caption

For the vault in the nave of La Sagrada Familia church, Antoni Gaudi drew inspiration for his mimetic architecture and natural building style from a forest with columns made of concrete, steel and stone (granite, basalt, porphyry), whose branches form rotational hyperboloids and hyperbolic paraboloids and thus support the weight of the vault, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, Europe

Date

Apr 20, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Hilke Maunder

Reference

BRK25F97_149

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

153,7Mb (7,6Mb) / 30,0in x 19,9in / 8986 x 5977 (300dpi)

Keywords

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