"These benches are shaped to the human body. In addition their serpentine design facilitates the formation of conversational groups, for those watching children at play on the terrace. Gaudi's designs are not abstract and inhuman as they may sometimes appear. Human needs and their satisfaction are carefully considered. Perhaps it is due to his understanding of these needs, that Gaudi's work has always met with popular acceptance, while often being regarded as eccentric by the more sophisticated public."
--James Johnson Sweeney and Josep Lluis Sert, Gaudi (1960), 141
Gaudi practiced the architecture of empathy.
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