Las casas y la arquitectura en España
La Casa Batlló
Built by Gaudí in 1905, this building is often called the "House of Bones". in Barcelona -Antonio Gaudí -'La Casa Batlló is also known as La Casa de los Huesos due to the resemblance of its facade to a series of masks (the balconies) supported by bones (the pillars). Located on the famous manzana de la discordia on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, it is accompanied by several other architectural wonders of Modernism.
La manzana de la discordia en Barcelona
Principal route in Barcelona -The name of this block—La manzana de la discordia—is a wonderful play on words, with manzana meaning both block and apple. The reference is, of course, to the myth of how the Trojan War began.
Una casa cueva en Andalucía
-A casa cueva (earth house) is an architectural style characterized by the use of natural terrain to help form the walls of a house. An earth house is usually set partially into the ground and covered by a thin layer of foliage. Modern earth houses are built with concrete walls and insulation. Unlike traditional residential houses built aboveground, the aim of building an earth house is to live in the earth. Houses aboveground are built "into the air," resulting in the loss of heat and humidity, and the exterior shell of the structure has a shorter lifespan. The earth house concept uses the ground as an insulating blanket that effectively protects it from rain, low temperatures, wind, and natural abrasion.
El patio de la Casa Sorolla
-In 1925, the widow of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida donated to the Spanish state the studio-house that the Valencian painter had built in Madrid between 1910 and 1911. It preserves the best collection of the artist's paintings as well as numerous other works and objects of interest, including sculptures, ceramics, furniture, and jewelry. It is a unique example of an early 20th-century bourgeois house.
El puente del Alamillo, Sevilla y El museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe
-Santiago Calatrava was born in Benimàmet, an old municipality now integrated as an urban part of Valencia, Spain. He pursued his undergraduate architecture degree at the Polytechnic University of Valencia along with a postgraduate course in urbanism. He is now considered one of the elite architects of the world, and has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City. Calatrava designed two bridges to reach the buildings of Expo '92, hosted on a deserted island in the Guadalquiver River in Seville, Spain. The Alamillo was one of these and the largest of four built for the Expo. Its striking feature is its asymmetrical design: a single pylon leaning away from the river and supporting the 200-meter span with 13 pairs of cables.
El parador de Carmona
-The idea for the paradores was conceived early in the 1900s, when the Marqués de la Vega Inclán was tasked with creating a hotel infrastructure. The concept came to fruition late in the 1920s with the construction of the Parador de Gredos. The king of Spain at the time, Alfonso XIII, was an enthusiastic supporter of the project. Currently, there are more than 100 paradores in Spain. They preserve the country's heritage as well as promote tourism. Many are located in historic buildings that have been refurbished, but some are modern buildings built specifically for regional tourism to showcase a particular area and local culture.
Las casas colgantes de España
-These houses, built in the 1400s, "hang" from cliffs on the side of a gorge formed by the meeting of the Huécar and Júcar Rivers. The historic walled city of Cuenca was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 mainly due to the presence of these amazing structures.
