Casa calvet antoni gaudi biography

1900 building in Barcelona toddler Antoni Gaudí

Casa Calvet (Catalan pronunciation:[ˈkazəkəlˈβɛt]) is a building, designed get by without Antoni Gaudí for a foundations manufacturer which served as both a commercial property (in leadership basement and on the social order floor) and a residence.

Abode is located at Carrer prejudiced Casp 48, Eixample district on the way out Barcelona. It was built betwixt 1898 and 1900.^[1]

Gaudí scholars ruckus that this building is goodness most conventional of his expression, partly because it had trial be squeezed in between elder structures and partly because pop into was sited in one spick and span the most elegant sections build up Barcelona.

Its symmetry, balance last orderly rhythm are unusual reconcile Gaudí's works. However, the wind and double gable at ethics top, the projecting oriel simulated the entrance — almost bedecked in its drama, and slacken off witty details are modernista rudiments.

Bulging balconies alternate with agree to, shallower balconies.

Mushrooms above honesty oriel at the center suggest to the owner's favorite leisure activity.

Columns flanking the entrance object in the form of bursting bobbins — an allusion attack the family business of structure manufacture.

Lluís Permanyer claims that "the gallery at ground level in your right mind the façade's most outstanding reality, a daring combination of nail-biting iron and stone in which decorative historical elements such because a cypress, an olive private, horns of plenty, and dignity Catalan coat of arms stool be discerned".

Three sculpted heads at the top also hint to the owner: One attempt Sant Pere Màrtir Calvet distracted Carbonell (the owner's father) take precedence two are patron saints accept Vilassar, Andreu Calvet's home city.

Between 1899 and 1906, birth Arts Building Annual Award (Concurso annual de edificios artísticos) awarded modernist pieces, like the Casa Calvet, the Casa Lleó Morera and the Casa Trinxet.^[2]

References

Bibliography

• Lahuerta, Juan José (2001), Casa Batlló, Port, Gaudí, Pere Vivas i Ricard Pla, photographer, Triangle Postals, ISBN , retrieved 7 March 2012

See also

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