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In addition to directing the works to complete the temple designed by Antoni Gaudí, carried out a task of disseminating of the work of the modernist architect in symposiums and conferences around the world
The architect Jordi Bonet i Armengol, director emeritus of the construction works of the temple of the Sagrada Familia, He has died at the age of 97, as reported on Tuesday by his son on social networks.
Jordi Bonet served as coordinator of the works of the Sagrada Familia from 1985 to 2012, when he left office at the age of 87, although he continued to be linked to this work as director emeritus.
During his time as architect of the temple, in which the works of the Sagrada Familia registered a great impulse, Computer aided design and computer tools were introduced.
In addition to directing the works to complete the temple designed by Antoni Gaudí, Jordi Bonet carried out an outreach task of the modernist architect’s work at symposiums and conferences around the world.
Born in Barcelona in 1925, Jordi Bonet She was also a cultural activist and leader of the Catalan scouting movement. and international.
Likewise, he was a numerary academician of the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi, member of the Board of Museums of Catalonia and the Pontifical Academy of the Pantheon (Italy).
Bonet graduated as an architect in 1949 and projected the Gaudinian influence in some of his works, among them the churches of Vinyoles d’Oris (1955), Sant Emeteri (Barcelona, 1960) and Santa María de la Fortesa (Piera, 1962).
He was also the author of various housing complexes, among them those of the Cooperative Sagrat Cor de Jesus, Caixa Postal or La Cantonada, from the Regina Carmell and Sant Gregori schools, in Barcelona, from the Aiscondel building in Barcelona, or from the Pau Casals Auditorium, in El Vendrell (Tarragona).
Within the scouting movement, he was the first president of the Catholic Scout Movement of Spain and he was general secretary of the Catholic Conference of Scouting from 1977 to 1981.
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He was also general director of Artistic Heritage of the Government of Catalonia between 1981 and 1984.
Among other distinctions, he received the Lluís Domènech i Montaner for architectural research, the Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise, awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Cross of Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat in 1990.