Talk:Casa Milà

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First section is quite clearly ridiculous
The whole section 'Criticism and Controventry' is just completely wrong in every possible way. For example 'The building really is terrible and did not use any rules of conventional style, which is why he received much criticism'. I suspect vandalism.

Parabolic or catenary
The caption for the arches picture says "Parabolic or catenary arches under the terrace of Casa Milà". They can't be both parabolic and catenary, as these are mathematically different curves (as the catenary article notes). I think they'll be catenaries: Gaudi used a complicated model made from hanging threads and suspended weights to model Segrada Familia, which would produce catenaries in that design. If he used the same mechanism for la pedrera, then these curves would be catenaries too. Still, it would be better to cite a source to that effect than just an inference from another of his buildings. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 02:26, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Gaudi's designs are generally parabolic, not catenary (although the distinction is tiny for masonry arches rather than pure geometry). A catenary is very similar, but is the form of a flexible cable loaded uniformly along its length. A parabola is the result if the load is evenly distributed along the horizontal axis. For an arch in a uniform wall, the idealised shape more closely approximates the parabola. I note that it's also common to see these same forms described as hyperbolic Andy Dingley 21:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Art Deco
Interior design photos are captioned "Art Deco", yet they pre-date the Exposition by 20 years Andy Dingley 21:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Technical Page Issues
The table of contents appearsVERY far down the page, to the point where it isn't usefull. I'm new here, and can't figure out how to move it up to the top of the page where it belongs!68.6.52.59 14:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I fixed it by adding a section. Wikipedia automatically adds it above the first section above the introduction but the first section was a long way down the page. Also, you should add new discussions at the bottom of the page, not in the middle or at the top. I've moved it there myself. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 14:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Comparisons
Dieresis (talk) 07:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC) I don't know exactly what "biomorphic" means, but I see no similarity between this building and the Guggenheim or Disney examples included in this article. Agreed - in fact, the Wikipedia article on "biomorphism" does not note any of these buildings - but ironically does give attention (and a photograph) to La Sagrada Familia. I suggest that this section be deleted if no one objects. Fromthemitten (talk) 13:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Overall Text
The translation from the Catalan article has resulted in a poor, and difficult to understand, English version. Coupled with the now non-existent references, we have an article in English that doesn't do justice to this architectural masterpiece. I will do what I can to make it clearer and find some references, but help from a bilingual Catalan/English reader would be welcomed. Fromthemitten (talk) 13:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

This is just what happens when you rely on a computer to translate a text: you need a interpretation of it all, which is not a good thing because it takes too much time. I'll do what I can, too. DeckerParsec (talk) 19:17, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Translation cleanup log
In this section, I would like to track the progress made in cleaning up this page's translation from Catalan (added around March 2013), so that we may know which parts have been done and which ones still need work. --HyperGaruda (talk) 09:56, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Checked and corrected up to and including "Change of ownership". --HyperGaruda (talk) 09:56, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Corrected "Restoration". --HyperGaruda (talk) 11:01, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Corrected first section of "Design", except for the part about the elevators vs staircases. The information about them is a bit contradicting, with one saying that the stairs were only used for services, while the other says that Gaudí forced the residents to use the stairs instead of the elevators. --HyperGaruda (talk) 10:56, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * §4.2 Design competitions - and wikilinked Mathglot (talk) 10:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment: Turns out, the original ca & es versions don't really represent properly what's in the Anuari 1912 reference, so neither do we. (This is a pdf that took over an hour to download at high speed (90Mbps/sec) which I assume must be a slow server at the other end, but will look to the casual user like a dead link or non-responsive server.) So, I've added a longish   excerpt to the Cite book so people can decide for themselves.  I may change the original es and ca articles based on this.    Mathglot (talk) 01:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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 * Done. Mathglot (talk) 10:58, 27 February 2017 (UTC)