Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Casa Milà

Preferred Title: 
Casa Milà
Alternate Title: 
La pedrera
Image View: 
Southwest elevation, detail
Creator: 
Antoni Gaudí (Spanish architect, 1852-1926)
Location: 
site: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Location Note: 
92, Passeig de Gràcia
GPS: 
+41.395278+2.161667
Date: 
1906-1910 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Catalan; Spanish
Style Period: 
Art Nouveau; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
apartment house
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
wrought iron; stone; tile
Technique: 
construction (assembling); metalworking; mosaic (process)
Subjects: 
abstraction; architecture; botanical; decorative arts
Description: 
Going far beyond the exuberant use of natural forms in sculpture and wrought-ironwork, which were the hallmarks of Modernisme (the Catalan term for Art Nouveau), Gaudí turned to nature to generate structural form. The Casa Milà (?La pedrera?) is one of Gaudí?s most important achievements. In this ambitious corner project, his approach to the creation of a new architectural organism was unencumbered by any existing work, and the curvilinear planning of the floors around magnificent patio spaces was possible from the outset. Again drawing inspiration from nature, Gaudí presented a rock-face of fluid, curvilinear forms to the street; openings appear to be carved out of the stonework in rounded forms with deep overhangs, giving rise to the building?s nickname ?the quarry?. The tiled roof follows the rise and fall of the superstructure of the attic storey as it spans spaces of varying widths on the floors below. The result is a heaving roofscape, and on this stands a fantastic family of chimneys and ventilators sc
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier: 
1A1-GA-CM-B20
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.