Antoni Gaudí and Frei Otto: Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto

As Senior Architect to the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Mark Burry has been ‘thinking parametrically’ for almost his entire career. Here he describes how his longstanding role overseeing the completion of Antoni Gaudiu0027s masterpiece has afforded unique insights into the work of a great geometer and parametric thinker. Burry places the contribution of Gaudi alongside that of Frei Otto – the other eminent 20th-century Proto-Parametricist.