Dark Roasted Blend (July 15, 2008)
(Claude, via Dark Roasted Blend, used w/o permission)
This post has a collection of photos, showing the work of Antoni Gaudi: an architect whose buildings seem to have been baked, or maybe grown, rather than built.
It includes a collection of pictures of the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família - a Barcelona landmark that is still unfinished.
What I appreciate as much as the quantity and technical quality of the photos is that most of them were take at near eye level. This is an important point. Most architectural texts that I've seen show buildings like Casa Milà from unnatural viewpoints - often far above eye level.
That's fine, for simulating an elevation of the structure, but doesn't show what the building looks like to people who will be living or working in it, or passing by.
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