Editing Sagrada Família (section)

==Appraisal==
The art historian [[Nikolaus Pevsner]], writing in the 1960s, referred to Gaudí's buildings as growing "like [[Sugarloaf|sugar loaves]] and anthills" and describes the ornamenting of buildings with shards of broken pottery as possibly "bad taste" but handled with vitality and "ruthless audacity".<ref name="Pevsner">{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=An Outline of European Architecture |year=1963 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-020109-3 |pages=394–395 |language=en}}</ref>

The building's design itself has been polarizing. Assessments by Gaudí's fellow architects were generally positive; [[Louis Sullivan]] greatly admired it, describing Sagrada Família as the "greatest piece of creative architecture in the last twenty-five years. It is spirit symbolised in stone!"<ref name="dm">{{cite book| first=David |last=Mower| title= Gaudí| publisher=Oresko Books Limited| year=1977| page=6 |isbn=978-0-9053-6809-2}}</ref> [[Walter Gropius]] praised Sagrada Família, describing the building's walls as "a marvel of technical perfection".<ref name="dm" /> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine called it "sensual, spiritual, whimsical, exuberant".<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine |title=Heresy Or Homage in Barcelona? |magazine=Time |first=Margo |last=Hornblower |date=28 January 1991 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972215,00.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101117060743/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972215,00.html |archive-date= 17 November 2010}}</ref> However, author and critic [[George Orwell]], mistakenly referring to it as a cathedral, called it "one of the most hideous buildings in the world".<ref>{{cite book |last=Orwell |first=George |title=[[Homage to Catalonia]] |year=1938 |publisher=[[Secker and Warburg]] |quote=[the anarchists] showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance.}}</ref> Author [[James A. Michener]] called it "one of the strangest-looking serious buildings in the world"<ref name="nytmich">{{cite news |title=Gaudí's Cathedral: And Now? |work=The New York Times |first=Paul |last= Delaney|date= 24 October 1987 | url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7DD173AF937A15753C1A961948260&scp=6&sq=sagrada%20familia%20gaudi&st=cse}}</ref> and British historian [[Gerald Brenan]] stated about the building "Not even in the European architecture of the period can one discover anything so vulgar or pretentious."<ref name="nytmich" /> The building's distinctive silhouette has nevertheless become symbolic of Barcelona itself,<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news| title =Polishing Gaudí's Unfinished Jewel | newspaper=The New York Times |first= Raphael |last=Minder |date=3 November 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/arts/04iht-sacred.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> drawing an estimated 3 million visitors annually.<ref name="nyt3">{{cite news |title = Gaudí's Church Still Divides Barcelona |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Edward |last=Schumacher |date=1 January 1991 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/01/arts/gaudi-s-church-still-divides-barcelona.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

===World Heritage status===
In 1984, [[UNESCO]] granted [[World Heritage Site]] designations to three Gaudí buildings in Barcelona, though not yet including Sagrada Família, under the collective designation "Works of Antoni Gaudí{{snd}}No 320 bis" (items 320-001 to 320-003), testifying "to Gaudí's exceptional creative contribution to the development of architecture and building technology", "having represented el Modernisme of Catalonia" and "anticipated and influenced many of the forms and techniques that were relevant to the development of modern construction in the 20th century".<ref name= "UNESCO">{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/320 |title=Works of Antoni Gaudí |website=UNESCO World Heritage Convention |access-date=14 November 2010}}</ref> In 2005, UNESCO extended the inscription for Works of Antoni Gaudí{{snd}}No 320 bis to include four additional buildings in Barcelona, with item 320-005 listed as two specific sections of Sagrada Família: the Crypt and the Nativity façade.<ref name=WHSextension>{{cite web |title=Decision 29 COM 8B.47 |date=2005-07-08 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Convention |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/512/ |access-date=2024-04-10 |quote=the extension of Parque Güell, Palacio Güell and Casa Mila in Barcelona (Spain) to include the Works of Antoni Gaudí, notably the following buildings: the Nativity façade and Crypt of Sagrada Familia, Casa Vicens, Casa Battlo, and the Crypt in Colonia Güell…}}</ref>