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

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

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

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

Catenary Curve

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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