The Temple Expiatori De La Sagrada Familia (In English, The Holy Family) is a Roman Catholic basilica situated in Barcelona and still under construction. Antoni Gaudi worked on the project for over 40 years, devoting the last 15 years of his life entirely to the endeavour. On the subject of the extremely long construction periods, Gaudi is said to have joked, "my client is not in a hurry." After Gaudi's death in 1926, work continued under direction of Domenech Sugranyes until interrupted by the Spanish Civil War in 1935.
Part of the unfinished building and Gaudi's models and workshop were destroyed during the war by Catalan anarchists. The design, as now being constructed, is based both on reconstructed version of the lost plans and on modern adaptions. Since the 1940s, the architects Francesc Quintana, Isidre Puig Boada, Lluis Bonet i Gari, and Francesc Cardoner have carried on the work. The current director and son of Lluis Bonet, Jordi Bonet i Armengol, has been introducing computers into the design and construction process since the 1980s.