Park Güell (Barcelona, Spain) : Entry area, depicting the lower fountain and grotto on the east side
- Creator:
- Gaudi, Antoni, 1852-1926
Jujol i Gibert, José Maria, 1879-1949 - Published/Created:
- Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1900-1914 - Date Depicted:
- 2008
1900 AD - 1949 AD - Materials:
- concrete; glazed ceramic tile; wrought iron
- Notes:
- 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.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Spain -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- Spanish
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-GA-PG-E3
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
open spaces: parks (recreation areas): urban parks (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architecture; botanical; cityscape; decorative arts; recreation and games; festivals; parks (recreation areas) Art Nouveau; Twentieth century complexes; recreation areas; parks (recreation areas)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Five
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2008 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4090
- OID:
- 10051797
- PID:
- digcoll:1855978