Antonio Gaudi DVD - An act of Kindness by Patrick Egan

First made in 1985 this documentary is now released on DVD , for more details visit
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Antoni-Gaudi/102760663131230 Antonio Gaudi (1852 - 1926 )

' Only they remain and will endure who touch the sensitive hearts of man '

This was written by Le Corbusier when prefacing a book on Gaudi in 1957. It was one of the first accolades conferred on Antonio Gaudi by anyone outside Spain. Until then his work was regarded with derision and as insane fantasy evan causing George Orwell to state in 1938 the the Anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing up the Sagrada Familia when they had the opportunity.
But , the basis of fantasy is reality . The basis of reality is fantasy. On the acceptable borderline is genius and on the unacceptable is madness. And what's on madness to one generation can be genius to another.
By 1985 when I made this documentary , Gaudi's works were faded and dilapidated . The following year due to the impending Olympics of 1992 a new pride in their city caused the Barcelonese to clean and restore the buildings to their present splendour.
Today it is hard to believe that these projects could ever have been sidelined by the mainstream architectural appreciation. In this , the first of two documentaries that I have made on Gaudi , I try to explain the approach that he had to architecture which for him was a means of communication and not an ancillary of finance.

Patrick Egan

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