A comparison between Antoni Gaudi (1852 – 1926) / Barcelona / Spain – – Fa?ade of The Secret Family Temple with Poty Lazzarotto (1924-1998) Ctba-BR

(Russell 213).  Poty’s work, is also composed of different objects, designed and harmonized all together. They both have a special language (Russell 40), but as much as one looks to specific characteristics, as closer one can be to a common sense whenever artists manifest their creativity and potentiality, as it can be observed in this comparison. But it isn’t transparent. One has to have the desire to look and compare.

             And Barcelona, located at the Mediterranean Sea in the very north of the Spanish coast, is certainly the most cosmopolitan and economically most active city in Spain. It has always proved its will to be modern, to follow the latest international tendencies or be ahead of them. One can see tradition and innovation side by side (See Russell 372). Considering tourism the architecture of Barcelona reflects the general approach to life. Barcelona has an old history, counting on monuments of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance specially those ones created in the last century. “Barcelona has been a center of Modernist architecture, distinguished by the works of Gaudí, and his contemporaries who gave exciting looks to it, but has remained since then at the top of modernity.

            The confrontation of Gaudi and Poty’s façades provides personalization, and aggregation of an extra social value to institutions. Gaudi centers his attention to religious arguments – – (Frontal Façade – Jesus’ birth) 02 – – (See Russell 02), and Poty demonstrates a retrospective of the theater throughout the world in his Façade (See Russell 04).

             “In accordance with Michael Foucault (1973) the intellectual practices can be identified as discourses that will look

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