Liquid Stone

Directed By: Polly Watkins
Country: Australia/New Zealand
Runtime: 52 Mins
Language: English
Year: 2009

Construction began on La Sagrada Familia in 1883, but after architect Antonio Gaudi’s death and the Spanish Civil War, the building languished for nearly a century.

In 1979, Melbourne architect Mark Burry awash given the chance to crack the code needed to complete Gaudi’s masterpiece. He used aeronautical software to unlock Gaudi’s design strategy and pioneered the use of digital technology now radically changing the way architecture is conceived and visualised.

Now the famously unfinishable building is nearing completion and represents one of the most outstanding technical achievements of modern time.

Liquid Stone explores the extraordinary design enigma that has taken decades to surmount using hands and plaster, supercomputers and aerospace technology. With Mark Burry we decode the cathedral using the same technology, and meet the digital designers and traditional artisans working side by side to realise Gaudis’ impossible vision.