Brief introduction into Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) history and suggestion of why this project shall be considered as a failure.

1. Project Failure:
Sagrada Familia
Barcelona, Spain
Subject: Project Management
Prof: Prof. Doubman
Date: 2.05.2013
By: Daria Chizhova

2. Content
Story of Creation
Failure Factors
Bibliography

3. Story of Creation (I)
1st version
Catalan bookseller and
editor Josep Maria
Bocabella
After a visit to the Vatican
in 1872 he returned with
the intention of building a
church
He was founder of
Asociación Espiritual de
Devotos de San José
2nd version
Young Priest Magnani
came to Bocabella with an
idea of building grandiose
temple
Only on people’s
donations to show how
strong is their love to God
So Bocabella anounced
this in his magazine

4. Story of Creation (II)
The
construction
started in
1882
The architect
was
Francisco de
Paula del
Villar
BUT he
wanted to
build a classic
gothic revival
church, which
was not
pretentious
enough
Villar refused
to build
something
different

5. Story of Creation (III)
Gaudi
began to
work only
after a year
First he
was
building the
projected
building,
BUT
At a certain
moment he
stopped
and decide
to change
the design
completely
Design
was more
complicate
d,
demanded
more
money and
time
The clients
refused to
pay

6. Story of Creation (IV)
5! years later an
anonymous person
donated 500 000
pesetas
So Gaudi was
continuing the
construction
He increased the
height from 120 to
170 meters

7. Story of Creation (V)
After 18 years, the XX century came and the time given for the
construction ran away, but Gaudi was only working on first
façade
Also the money finished again
Gaudi let go his salary, then started to invest his own money

8. Story of Creation (VI)
June 7 1926 Antonio
Gaudi was hit by the
tram, he died in 2
days…
On the subject of the
extremely long
construction period,
Gaudí is said to have
remarked: "My client is
not in a hurry”

9. Story of Creation (VI)
His work was undertaken
by Domènec Sugrañes i
Gras, his apprentice
Until 1936 – Spanish Civil
War
One week after start of the
war antireliogous fanatics
put Sagrada Familia on fire
and it destroyed all drafts,
drawings and wooden
model

10. Story of Creation (VII)
In 1952 government
decided to complete
construction to attract
tourists
The current director and
son of Lluís Bonet (Gaudi’s
assistant), Jordi Bonet i
Armengol has been
introducing computers into
the design and construction
process since the 1980s
He announced the date of
completion - 2026

11. Failure Factors
Haven’t agreed on
building requirements
=> architect change
Involved changes of
design, which were not
planned
Ran out on budget for
that
No deadlines were
followed
Fire destroyed the
drafts for the building
Civil War
Overall, no planning
involved until modern
technologies
No risk assessment
No control over Gaudi

12. Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_familia
http://www.vatanym.ru/?an=vs209_art1
http://zhurnaly.biz/1734-gala-biografiya-2-fevral-
2013.html

13. Thank You for Attention!