MADRID, SPAIN.- Luis Racionero wrote in Estrella Digital the following editorial on Antoni Gaudí:



It is a person that always interests me, whether or not we celebrate his centennial. First because of the greatness of his death, he was run over by a streetcar, taken to a hospital where they thought he was a beggar until a priest who was a friend of him found out. Gaudí was a homeless person. He lived in the works are of the Sacred family and used a rope as a belt in his pants. This happened coming from a youth of Dandiism. He directed the works from the Vicens House from a horse carriage, without getting off it. This has a great meaning in the design of a character, and old man only worried about his great work.



He insisted that his style was a perfected Gothis. Of course, he constructed models with ropes and weights equivalent to the loads. He photographed them and turned them around. And he hot the best arches that resisted those loads. This is what interests modern architects about him, as well as functional solutions.



And what interests everyone is his voluptuosity and erotism, impregnated with forms and colors of each and everyone of his works, except the Güell Palace, which has served to film Dracula movies. They say that Clemenceau left Barcelona affected with indignation against ’that city where they make houses for dragons’. And the dragons of Eden were, effectively, in Gaudí subconscious. That genius stated phrases such as ’Originality is to return to the origin.’