The Cathedral That Reveals Its Architect

Antoni Gaudí died in 1926, struck by a streetcar in Barcelona. He left behind an unfinished cathedral — the Sagrada Família — and a vision so precise that builders still follow his plans a century later. Walk inside and you encounter Gaudí everywhere. The columns branch like trees because he believed God's architecture was written in forests. The light through the stained glass shifts from warm amber on the west to cool blue on the east because he studied how morning and evening sun fell across the nave.…