Post by Francesca Bossert

I recently had the honour of interviewing a phenomenal architect. Francesca: As you probably know, I recently visited your Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona with a wonderful guide who was passionate about your work, pointing out all sorts of details I would never have noticed in such a short time. The mathematical details of how you worked everything out went right over my head of course, the only thing I recall being the fact that you chose the number 7.5 as the scale in which to work out your calculations, because 7 was considered good, and 8 was considered evil. You apparently conceived the entire cathedral using 7.5 as a reference. Antoni: Well, yes, sort of. I could go into lengthy explanations, but I know that you’re dyscalculic, and the numbers would just turn into squiggles in your brain, and your eyes would go blank. That’s not to say I dislike squiggles. I love them. The world needs far more squiggles. I indulged in some very satisfactory squiggling over the course of my life. The Sagrada Família is wonderfully squiggly, don’t you think? Even the renovations of the sculptures made by my Japanese friend Etsuro Sotoo after the originals were destroyed during the civil war are delightfully squiggly, which makes me very happy." https://lnkd.in/dVeMCyj4