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Art Nouveau

1890-1910

-Interest in iron and glass and new ways to construct

-Nature as a source of ornament -Whiplash, long organic lines -Design unity/total design --Flourishes especially in Brussels,

Paris, and Barcelona

Victor Horta, Belgium

Hotel Tassel

•  1893-4 •  Private home for a

well-known scientist •  Meshing classical with

modern materials: stone and iron (type)

•  Use of large areas of glass

•  Stasis versus motion

Exposed metal rivets in lintel

Whiplash ironwork

Typical townhouses, Boston

Interior

Skylight over stairhall

Hector Guimard, Paris

“Style Metro”

•  Paris subway opens in 1900.

•  Biomorphic, zoomorphic

•  Iron?

Castel Beranger, 1898

Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona

Barcelona, Casa Batlló, 1905-07, Arch.: A. Gaudí (remodelling)

•  Iron?

Barcelona, Casa Batlló, 1905-07, Arch.: A. Gaudí

"The house built by Gaudi on the Paseig de Gracia is made of

the tranquil waters of a lake. This is not a question of deceptive metaphors or

fairytales, etc.... this house exists... It is a real building and

the true sculpture of the reflections of twilight clouds in

the water, which was made possible by recourse to a huge

and insane multicolored mosaic, shimmering with pointillistic iridescence from which the

forms of water emerge, water that has spread and is

spreading, forms of stagnant water; forms of shimmering

water, forms of wind-sprayed water" Salvadore Dali, 1933

Barcelona, Casa Mila, 1905-10, Arch.: A. Gaudí

•  “There are no straight lines in nature.” •  Stone, not concrete •  Geomorphic •  Nationalism: the long heritage of Spanish

architecture: Spanish Gothic, Baroque but also Moorish, and North African

•  Ability as an engineer

Muqarnas at Alhambra




Catenary Curve



Barcelona, Parc Güell, 1900-1914, arch.: A. Gaudi




Sagrada Familia Chapel, begun 1883

•  18th century Baroque chapel of St. Joseph

Barcelona, Sagrada Familia, 1883ff. arch. A. Gaudi



Section Amiens Cathedral, from: "Discourses", (1858-1872), Arch.: Eugène Emmanuelle Viollet-le-Duc



Barcelona, Sagrada Familia, Western transept, ca. 1985ff. arch. Josep Maria Subirachs

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