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
Typical townhouses, Boston
Skylight over stairhall
Hector Guimard, Paris
“Style Metro”
• Paris subway opens in 1900.
• Biomorphic, zoomorphic
Castel Beranger, 1898
Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona
Barcelona, Casa Batlló, 1905-07, Arch.: A. Gaudí (remodelling)
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
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