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Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló was built between 1904 and 1906 on Passeig de Grácia in Barcelona, Spain. The first thing I noticed in this picture of the building is that the balconies and window frames have organic form. The balconies and window frames reminded me of bones and the overall picture reminded me of a cave-like place because of the tan, earth color of the building and the similarities it has to certain aspects of nature. The balconies made me think of skulls, with the ovals being the eye sockets of the skull and the points at the bottom of balcony being the nasal bone. The second thing I noticed is how colorful the building and the windows were. The various colors on the building’s exterior look as if they are large spray …show more content…
In pictures where it appears to be a sunny day and the sun shines on the building, the colors of the building will appear to be more saturated and the various colors on the exterior of the building are more noticeable in the picture. In other pictures where there is less sun directed at the building and more clouds the color of the building looks more dull than saturated and there don’t appear to be as many colors on the exterior of the building when compared to a picture taken on a more sunny day. Also, the degree to which the windows appear to be tinted can depend on the amount of light that is directed towards the windows and the angle at which a picture of the windows is taken. In this given picture, some parts of the window appear to be a very saturated blue and others appear to be regular windows that are not …show more content…
Instead of Casa Batlló being mainly monochromatic in color, the building seems to have been meant to be colorful like the aspects of nature and not mainly monochromatic. On the other hand, my interpretation that the building was meant to be different from what came before was correct. The strongest element of this work is Gaudí’s predominant use of organic form in the design and construction of Casa Batlló. Since it was so different from the architectural designs that came before, “his unique style of organic architecture”2 influenced later architects such as Pier Luigi Nervi, Otto Frei, and many others.2 His innovative use of the concepts and life of nature left a mark in the history of architectural design from the early 20th century to present day. Gaudí’s Casa Batlló shares the idea of organic form and integrating the aspects of nature into architecture with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but the architecture is vastly different from one another. Wright focuses on “the organic connection between the building and its surroundings,”1 but Gaudí focuses on how to integrate the organic form of nature into the design of the building itself. While Wright makes it seem as if the buildings he designs “grow from the ground,”1 Gaudí makes the buildings he designs portray a relationship with nature1 and this relationship is depicted through the colors
Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló was built between 1904 and 1906 on Passeig de Grácia in Barcelona, Spain. The first thing I noticed in this picture of the building is that the balconies and window frames have organic form. The balconies and window frames reminded me of bones and the overall picture reminded me of a cave-like place because of the tan, earth color of the building and the similarities it has to certain aspects of nature. The balconies made me think of skulls, with the ovals being the eye sockets of the skull and the points at the bottom of balcony being the nasal bone. The second thing I noticed is how colorful the building and the windows were. The various colors on the building’s exterior look as if they are large spray …show more content…
In pictures where it appears to be a sunny day and the sun shines on the building, the colors of the building will appear to be more saturated and the various colors on the exterior of the building are more noticeable in the picture. In other pictures where there is less sun directed at the building and more clouds the color of the building looks more dull than saturated and there don’t appear to be as many colors on the exterior of the building when compared to a picture taken on a more sunny day. Also, the degree to which the windows appear to be tinted can depend on the amount of light that is directed towards the windows and the angle at which a picture of the windows is taken. In this given picture, some parts of the window appear to be a very saturated blue and others appear to be regular windows that are not …show more content…
Instead of Casa Batlló being mainly monochromatic in color, the building seems to have been meant to be colorful like the aspects of nature and not mainly monochromatic. On the other hand, my interpretation that the building was meant to be different from what came before was correct. The strongest element of this work is Gaudí’s predominant use of organic form in the design and construction of Casa Batlló. Since it was so different from the architectural designs that came before, “his unique style of organic architecture”2 influenced later architects such as Pier Luigi Nervi, Otto Frei, and many others.2 His innovative use of the concepts and life of nature left a mark in the history of architectural design from the early 20th century to present day. Gaudí’s Casa Batlló shares the idea of organic form and integrating the aspects of nature into architecture with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but the architecture is vastly different from one another. Wright focuses on “the organic connection between the building and its surroundings,”1 but Gaudí focuses on how to integrate the organic form of nature into the design of the building itself. While Wright makes it seem as if the buildings he designs “grow from the ground,”1 Gaudí makes the buildings he designs portray a relationship with nature1 and this relationship is depicted through the colors