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Chamber of the Hundred Columns (hypostyle chamber), ceiling, showing medallions in trencadis

Title:

Park Güell

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Creators:

Antoni Gaudí (Spanish architect, 1852-1926); José Maria Jujol i Gibert (Spanish architect, 1879-1949)

Date:

1900-1914 (creation)

Style/Period:

Art Nouveau; Twentieth century

Location:

site: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

GPS:

+41.413611+2.152778

Culture:

Spanish

Materials:

concrete; glazed ceramic tile; wrought iron

Work Types:

open spaces; recreation areas; parks (recreation areas)

Description:

Going far beyond the exuberant use of natural forms in sculpture and wrought-ironwork, which were the hallmarks of Modernisme, Gaudí turned to nature to generate structural form. This was first realized in the Park Güell (1900-1914), Barcelona, part of a garden city commissioned by the textile magnet Güell in pursuit of the reformist ideals of the Renaixença (Catalan Romantic movement). The housing was never built, but Gaudí prepared roads and avenues, projecting viaducts from the hillside on an amazing array of rubble columns like tree trunks, angled to carry the structural thrusts directly to the ground. He also built polychromatic entrance lodges of fantastic form and a vast staircase, with fountains, leading to a hypostyle market hall constructed out of the sloping site and supported on 100 massive, quasi-archaic Doric columns. The roof of this structure, a flat, open space used as a playground, is surrounded by a serpentine bench-balustrade, covered, like the fountains and other elements, with brightly coloured mosaic decoration in abstract designs by Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert. The result is a playful, exciting and surrealistic environment. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)

View Description:

The trencadis medallions are the work of Josep Maria Jujol. The large medallions were placed where Gaudi removed a column to create more space.

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

construction (assembling); mosaic (process)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-GA-PG-F28

MDID Identifier:

45631

Archivision Set:

Archivision Addition Module Five

Collection:

Archivision Module 5

Collection:

Front Page Content

Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Sept. 23, 2018

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