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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spainen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1900-1914 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorGaudí, Antonien_US
dc.creatorJujol i Gibert, José Mariaen_US
dc.date1900-1914en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-20T20:08:58Z
dc.date.available2012-12-20T20:08:58Z
dc.date.issued1900-1914en_US
dc.identifier178740en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2094en_US
dc.descriptionSouth boundary wall, detail; 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/ (accessed 7/16/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumconcrete; glazed ceramic tile; wrought ironen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectbotanicalen_US
dc.subjectcityscapeen_US
dc.subjectdecorative artsen_US
dc.subjectrecreation and gamesen_US
dc.subjectfestivalsen_US
dc.subjectparks (recreation areas)en_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectArt Nouveauen_US
dc.titlePark Güellen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-GA-PG-D4en_US
dc.contributor.displayAntoni Gaudí (Spanish architect, 1852-1926); José Maria Jujol i Gibert (Spanish architect, 1879-1949)en_US


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