Next, it was Veronica
Boccuni's turn. The young Italian architect is currently
developing his doctoral thesis on Gaudí and spoke about
problems that arise with the restoration of historical
and artistic buildings such as those of Gaudí. In one
part of his speech, Boccuni said that the Catalán architect
designed his works like a global whole in which "one
cannot separate ornament from form, form from geometry,
geometry from structure.
At this point, Luis Gueilburt, director
of the Center for Gaudí Studies, presented the Pro-Miranda
Association, an entity presided over by Mrs. Mercedes
Bach which promotes the reconstruction of one of Gaudí's
works (Casa Mateu, of Llinars del Vallés) which was
demolished in 1962 to make way for a block of apartments.
Engineer Jan Wierenga presented
a method for completing Sagrada Familia in 15 years
by using a mobile crane capable of transporting vertically
with respect to the towers which would allow for higher
placement of pieces than that which is possible using
traditional cranes.
The last to participate was Sr.
Jordi Bonet, architectural director of the ongoing
construction of Sagrada Familia. Bonet explained the
process of construction and the geometry on which
the Temple's structures are based. He also contributed
an interesting fact about the plaster models - aside
from being constructed in order to represent exactly
what Gaudí had in his mind, the models also served
to show the people what their donations would be used
for.
Before the round table, the speakers
and audience members found their way to an auditorium
where Daniel Giralt-Miracle, the director of the saving
bank Caixa Catalunya's Espai Gaudí, introduced an
interactive CD-Rom that draws on the essence of the
exhibits displayed in the loft of La Pedrera (Casa
Milá). Although the CD-Rom was only a preliminary
version, the audience was very enthusiastic about
this great new idea for familiarizing one's self with
the work and life of Gaudí and the bases for his ingenious
ideas.