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    UNFINISHED MASTERPIECES
    It's a structure that isn't finished, yet two million people visit it A every year. Antoni Gaudí began
    building his church, La Sagrada Família, in 1883-and work continues to this day.

    The _______________ Antoni Gaudí was born in 1852 near the town of Reus, in the Catalonian
    region of Spain. As a child, he was interested in the natural wonders of the Catalonian
    countryside. When he grew up, he went to Barcelona to study _______________. Gaudí designed
    many structures in Barcelona during his career, but he was most committed to La Sagrada
    Família. In fact, after 1910, he stopped working on nearly all other projects to focus on it.

    INSPIRED BY NATURE
    Gaudi experimented with many styles early in his career, but eventually developed his own ideas
    about architecture. The natural world was the main _______________ for Gaudi's designs.
    "Nothing is art if it does not come from nature," he believed. Gaudi understood that the natural
    world is full of curved forms, not straight lines. With this idea in mind, he based his structures on a
    simple idea: If _______________ is the work of God, then the best way to honor God is to design
    buildings based on nature.

    The architect's love of nature combined with his _______________ beliefs guided the design of La
    Sagrada Família. Gaudi designed the inside of La Sagrada Família to feel like a forest. Inside the
    church, pillars rise up like trees. This theme continues outside. The outside of the church is
    decorated with sculptures of _______________. For example, a turtle—a symbol of the sea-and a
    tortoise—a symbol of the land—are carved' into the base of two columns. Carvings of other
    animals, such as reptiles and birds, appear throughout the structure.

    AN END IN SIGHT
    Gaudí died in 1926. Before his death, he made three-dimensional? models of his plans for the
    building, hoping that others could complete his _______________? Many of these models were
    lost during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), but some survived. These models have helped
    Gaudi's successors. For example, Mark Burry, an architect from New Zealand, has worked on La
    Sagrada Família for almost 40 years. He uses computer _______________ and the surviving
    models to bring Gaudi's plans to life.

    Gaudi's work illustrates a _______________ truth. As the architectural historian Joan Bassegoda
    wrote: "The lesson of Gaudí is ... to look at nature for inspiration ... [Nature does not go out of
    fashion." In fact, you might say Gaudi's architectural style was ahead of its time. The architect's
    nature-inspired designs can be seen as an early example of the modern science of
    _______________—a science that uses designs in nature to solve modern problems.

    Work on La Sagrada Família is expected to be finished in 2026, a hundred years after & Gaudi's
    death. Gaudí was once asked why La Sagrada Família was taking so long to complete. "My client
    is not in a hurry,"

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