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100 — Antoni Gaudí 1 — Bad at School

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The Importance of Synthesis in Architecture

I think also it kind of works... It probably works for him as the architect he was at that period, because, you know, typically being young and less experienced, synthesis is one of the things which is sort of harder to do. And I think they would have put enough stuff in all these. They're all empty now, but they would be really full of stuff, which he was meant to design quite a lot of. There's only one piece that he designed. The decorative scheme doesn't successfully integrate with the building for me.

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