Gaudi's Masterpiece

"My client is not in a hurry," Antoni Gaudí, said the pious architect referring to God.

Photograph by Pere Vivas, Triangle Postals

The December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine by Jeremy Berlin examines the architecture and nature-inspired design behind Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, including why it remains a work in progress and very much ahead of its time.

When Pope Benedict XVI said Mass there this fall, the Sagrada Família was already 128 years in the making—and still not finished.