Packet 3: Tossup 18

This architect used ceramic tiles with sunflowers and leaves (-5[1])to tile the outside of a tower resembling a minaret. A building on the “Block of Discord” designed (15[2])by this architect (15[3])has an arched roof resembling the back of a dragon, (15[2])is nicknamed the (15[1])“House of Bones,” (15[1]-5[1])and makes (15[1])use of the trencadís (*) mosaic style. A twelve-pointed glass star tops a tower designed by this architect dedicated (10[1]-5[1])to the Virgin Mary. (10[1])18 spires feature (10[1])in this Catalan modernist’s (10[1]-5[1])design (10[1])for a Gothic Revival church set to be completed on the 100th (-5[1])anniversary of his death. For 10 points, name this Spanish architect of Barcelona’s (10[1])Sagrada Família. ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

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