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= __**MODERN ARCHITECTURE 0 FANTASIA, WIT AND CREATOR ORNAMENTATION**__ =

Park Güell. Barcelona, Spain. Architect Antonio Gaudi.

Chapa House, 1914. Architect Carlos Carbonell.

__** INTRODUCTION. **__

Modernist architecture is the term used in Spain to refer to a type of buildings that were built between the last decades of the nineteenth century and first decades of the XXX. It is a new and monumental architecture, which is evidenced by the creative genius and fancy, but its functionalist architects, among whom it is worth pointing to Antonio Gaudi, Louis Doménechi Montaner and Josep Josep Maria Jujol Puigi Cadafalch. It is an architecture that reflects an ornamental component inspired by nature, flora and fauna and managed based on the asymmetrical, with the corrugated and the incorporation of new materials that are integrated into the structure.

__** MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE. **__

Modernist architecture is the name adopted in Spain Building style is a style of building originated in Europe, where the novelty is sought through the breakdown of linear and symmetrical patterns of classicism, and through the incorporation of rolling elements and curvilinear, a mixture of building materials (iron, glass, stone, concrete) and ornaments inspired by nature.

Modernist Architecture in England is called "Modern Style" in Belgium "Art Nouveau" in Italy "Liberty" and German "Jugendstil".

This architectural style emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and the origins of yourself or your background, we can place in the persons of John Ruskin (1819-1900), who wrote about art, and favored the issue of nature and graceful forms, and the Belgian architect Victor Horta (1861-1947) who built the house Tassel in Brussels, Belgium between 1892 and 1893, and introduced in this building undulating forms and mix of rigid and flexible (concrete and iron)

Tassel House.

Spanish Modernism originated in Catalonia. It is present in public buildings, civil and religious, and its exponents have been Doménechi Montaner Lluís (1849 -1923). Josep Puigui Cadafatch (1867-1955) and Antonio Gaudí (1852 -1926).

Antonio Gaudi, head of the Spanish architecture, and especially of Modernist architecture, marked a personal touch in his work, which evokes images of a great imaginative and creative genius. Mix shapes, colors and decorations inspired by nature. He broke up with symmetrical linear forms of classical architecture, graceful movement and gave their buildings as we can see in the park Guell, home caprice, Batló house, or Casa Calvet and others. He was the architect of the world famous La Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona Spain.

The Caprice Calvet House Park Güell

__** CONCLUSIONS: **__

Modernist Architecture in Valencia, Spain, is characterized by monumental buildings that reflect flexibility and movement due to the incorporation of symmetrical shapes and undulating. These are buildings which integrate highly flexible materials such as iron, rigid materials such as concrete that are present in buildings such as Casa Carlos Carbonell Chappa Architect or Architect's Columbus market Francisco Mora Berenguer.

Valencia Spain. Architect Francisco Mora Berenguer (1914-1916). = =