Saturday, January 15, 2011
GAUDI PARK
january,15th 2011
Just got home from a long day at Gaudi park. this is a free park , obviously designed by gaudi ...anddd he is clearly a genius...he said that the straight line is the line of man, but the curved line is the line of god, or something along those lines, so the entire thing looks like disney land...all the buildings and structures are circular or cylindrical and the paths are windy. the entire things is built out of a clay/rock like material with tons of ceramic collages everywhere. you can see pictures below. Gaudi park is a great place to go and a very cultural location because it shows his connection to barcelona. He was the major Architect of bareclona, and was a hero here. It was very sad to learn of his death--being hit by a tram because he was a very special man with a unique vision. this park was built for Mr. Guell a very rich patron of his, and one who used Gaudi as his architect many times. he wanted the park to look like a forest and have the actual building look like it was growing out of the ground, and he definitely achieved this with park guell.
Just got home from a long day at Gaudi park. this is a free park , obviously designed by gaudi ...anddd he is clearly a genius...he said that the straight line is the line of man, but the curved line is the line of god, or something along those lines, so the entire thing looks like disney land...all the buildings and structures are circular or cylindrical and the paths are windy. the entire things is built out of a clay/rock like material with tons of ceramic collages everywhere. you can see pictures below. Gaudi park is a great place to go and a very cultural location because it shows his connection to barcelona. He was the major Architect of bareclona, and was a hero here. It was very sad to learn of his death--being hit by a tram because he was a very special man with a unique vision. this park was built for Mr. Guell a very rich patron of his, and one who used Gaudi as his architect many times. he wanted the park to look like a forest and have the actual building look like it was growing out of the ground, and he definitely achieved this with park guell.
adittionally with my architecture class we visited another of gaudis works-casa batillo, and the other 2 houses on the block of discord--here is my blog to my parents about this visit
Block of discord:
with my modernism in architecture class, my teacher who is SUCH a sweetheart took us to the block of discord. This is a short block of three " houses" that are all made by the three most famous architects in spanish modernism. One of which is the famous Gaudi. These are called houses because they were built back in the day for a rich family who takes the first floor for themselves, the ground floor for their business and rents the top few floors to random people. These houses are extravagant and gorgeous, i will bring you to them. They are just a short 10 minute walk from the Ramblas. Here are some pictures of the houses
casa batillo
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