someone remarked that architecture is "the art of dealing with heaviness" but in gaudi's case, i think, it's more about making space visible is a specific way. as alchemists in the middle ages sought to "redeem matter" by turning nothing into something, gaudi's space works to reveal the dynamics of natural complexity. beyond the catholicism that drove his re-invention of the gothic(all that reaching to heaven), gaudi's structures point not only towards heaven but to earth too. he seems to be saying the human creature can invent & inhabit BOTH worlds.
the great japanese filmmaker hiroshi teshigahara returned to film making to document his fascination w/gaudi's convoluted creations. he died after being run over by a streetcar. unrecognized, he was sent to the hospital for indigents. he lived on there for three days before passing on.
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