Gaudi's architecture: a poetic form.(Antoni Gaudi)

How does architecture construct meaning? Is architecture a visual language? In this essay, Antoni Gaudi's architecture is examined as poetic discourse.

Gaston Bachelard attributes two functions to language: signification and poetry. He believes that "the poem, which interweaves real and unreal, [...] gives dynamism to language by means of the dual activity of signification and poetry" (xxxi). For Bachelard, the "real" is found in "signification" or in the utilitarian aspect of language, while the creative aspect is found in the "unreal" or in a "poetry" that "awaken[s