Modernism_Valencia

=**The Ortega House (Marquis Del Turia Av.) **=

- Bay windows on the lateral wings. - Balconies and windows present wrought iron ornamentation. - Human animals and floral representations. - Reproduces trees, vine leaves, ivy and anthropomorphic supports, which reminds giants from previous epochs.
 * · Built in1904, designed by Manuel Peris Ferrando.
 * · That each plant has a differentiated treatment of holes, crowned by make-believe semicircular arches:
 * · The ornamentation is made with sculptures:
 * · On the access, the balcony has a complicated soaked parapet.
 * · The crowing has a cement ivy and big daisies.
 * · In the middle, a beautiful stylization of the “Tree of Life”.
 * · The house has ornamented cornices, with sculptural elements.

=**The Central Market (Plaza del Mercat) **=


 * · The idea of building the Market dates to 1881, when the necessity to lodge all the merchants was imperious
 * · The project chosen, in 1914, was that of Alejandro Soler y March and Francisco Guard Vial
 * · hese architects quitted in 1919, and the work was concluded by Enrique Viedma, inaugurating it in January, 1928
 * · The lot, of irregular form, is assimilated by the form of the building, which is covered with a several-pitched roof and two domes
 * · The plant is an irregular polygon of 14 sides with a great iron, glass and ceramic dome, that occupies the central part
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· Its structure is formed by wooden semi-domes that sustain the Moorish tile roofs.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· The stained-glass windows adorn the interior and the exterior creating a dynamic space.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· To both sides of the main entrance, there are two smaller buildings, with a more historicist style and less daring than the rest of the building.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· The panels were forged with an evident symbolism: the panel parrot on the great dome, the panel fish on the dome dedicated to the pavilion of the fish market.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· The style is eclectic pre-modernist, combining the Catalan constructivist tradition and the first architecture in iron.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· In its time, it was the biggest market in Spain and one of the best from Europe, not in vain its budget was quite high, of nine millions of pesetas of the time. For this reason, the Central Market is the most representative building of Valencia Modernism.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· It represents a city surrounded by vegetable gardens that feeds of its products, and of a bourgeoisie that sponsored it because it symbolized the wealth and the prosperity of its earth.

= = =**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Apartment Building 13 (Caballeros St., 8) **=


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· Residential building constructed at the end of the19th. Century
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· Projected by the architect José Manuel Curtain Pérez, it is one of the first works in which he show his characteristic architectural repertoire, conformed by stylized elements and medievalist motives, immerse in an Arabic atmosphere.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· The building has a ground plant and four superior floors with a single housing for plant.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">· The facades are composed horizontally, with nested and different holes on each one of the four heights.

=**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Apartment Building 1 (La Paz St. 42) **=


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· It is the work of the architect Antonio Morrell Trilles.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· We can still admire the iron and glass marquee of the vestibule (zaguán), with clear modernist influences.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· Externally, it is resolved with a hierarchy of plants, differentiating the ground plant and the mezzanine with the rest of plants where they are present
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· The body of the balcony of the chamfer is a later addition.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· The unique canopy, with three ostentatious lanterns, is the mark of what is left of the luxurious Palace Hotel
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· This was the hotel were the aristocracy stayed during their visits to Valencia in the first decades of the XX century.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· There is a plaque that reads “ The most prestigious Spanish intellectuals and artists were accommodated here, when Madrid was under siege (1936-1939) and they were evacuated to Valencia. Call it a Home of Culture, where the poet Antonio Machado was its patron saint”

=**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Peris House (Cirilo Amorós St., 88,90) **=


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· Modernist building of housings for the bourgeoisie
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· Employment of elements of the Art Noveau and of the Austrian Secession.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· The architect was Carlos Carbonell Pañella.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· It has an outline of classic composition, with a ground plant, a mezzanine, a main floor, and two plants of housings and a loft.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· The facade is composed in a symmetrical way.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· The main floor is emphasized with a long balcony, with mixed parapet of work and forge that is finished off, with two bay windows, in the laterals.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">· In this house, we can appreciate an element characteristic of its author, the central finishing off, formed by big semicircular bays, divided by two columns of floral capital by way of lights.

7. Create a table to **compare and contrast** the buildings you analyzed: