Modernism_Valencia


 * Group #04. **


 * Name of the building:** Casa Gomez II (1905)
 * Architect**: Francisco Mora Berenguer
 * Picture and location**: St. La paz, St. Las Comedias

This building with the ceramic leafed cupola and the small temple with Corinthian columns is one of the most admired in the urban landscape.
 * Characteristics of the building:** This building is on an extremely irregular lot that presents two facades that define the corner and a third to the street on the back, but this one is not contiguous with the other two façades. This modernist building is the work of the architect Francisco de Mora y Berenguer. In this building you can detect the big influence of the Catalan architect Enrique Sanier. Of great interest is the treatment that is given to the chamfer, with a bay window on the main floor and a curved loggia finished off with a dome on the last floor. The modernist details of the building are very well taken care of, stressing the movement of all the closing details of the building, the perimeter of the dome, lintels, railings, and balustrades or the green beveled tiles used as veneer on the facade.




 * Name of the building:** The Port Sheds
 * Picture and location:** St. Muelle

The most visible artistic elements in the port of Valencia are the " sheds " or certain parts of them. The first ship or part of each shed is decorated with the taste of the Valencian Modernism of the 1900, with adornments in relief, allusive and allegorical to the commerce and the sailing, ceramic mosaics, quality polychrome on typical Valencian topics, main object of the trade and the sailing in this port: oranges, grapes, other fruits, some spikes and diverse branches. All the other parts are merely utilitarian, without ornamentation, constituted by double-pitched roofs and straight metallic supports with rivets.
 * Characteristics of the building**: The great attempts to build a true port were carried out in 1792, 1852-60, first years of the 20th century and in the post-war period, with many interruptions and parenthesis.

To the entrance of the port, we can see the building of the Marine Station that faces the Avenue of the Port. It is a building of rectangular plant and turrets. Its decoration, of 1939, has a greater sobriety, with a crowning of cupolas.

The apartments have kitchens ventilated to the patio through galleries with crystals and they present the novelty of having the bathrooms to the side of the facade. In the noble areas there is a modernist decoration on wooden baseboards, friezes and stuccos. Each facade has its own sketching outline own, with its central symmetry axis and finish off curved, being articulated by means of the rupture of the composition in the corners, with very plane and vertical bodies. The vertical rhythm of the holes prevails, with different treatments according to the height. The mezzanine has been eliminated and, the first floor has the hierarchy of a main floor thanks to the balconies and terraces. The exterior painted stucco is adorned with stony elements and ceramics carried out in work, using the entablature in form of white and green chess board design, glazed ceramic garland that crowns the building. All these elements remind the Austrian Secession movement. This building is also known by the name of House of Oranges. Another element to highlight is the futurist and abstract attempts in the design of the wrought iron grills with vegetable and abstract motives made out of straight lines that converge in a point (geometric designs). We can observe the care for the interior design and the concern for the so-called minor arts is in the line of the fashion of the moment. We can see the influence of D¨Aronco, Behrens, Olbrich and MacKintosh. In the building there are some stylistic research intents that seem to foresee the way to the Italian futurists and of the first abstract works.
 * Name of the building:** The Ferrer house
 * Architect**: Vicente Ferrer Pérez
 * Picture and location**: The Ciril Amoros Street Number 29, The Pizarro Street
 * Characteristics of the building**: This house projected by Vicente Ferrer Pérez in 1907 and built in 1908, it was his father who ordered its construction for him and his family. It is built on a polygonal lot that gives to a chamfered corner. It is a four-height building, with a ground plant, whose main floor is clearly differentiated and two more plants for housings. It has structure of bearing walls with arches and metallic beams. The stairway, which ventilates through windows to the internal patio of lights and superior window, is located in the bevel and it serves to two housings by plant.




 * Name of the building:** : Apartment building 11


 * Architect**: Lucas García Cardona
 * Picture and location**: San Vicente St. 1, / the Reina Square, 5

This construction consists of a ground plant, a mezzanine and four floors. The adopted solution for the first floor, where the structure is a skeleton of pillars and columns, allows opening up wide bays for exhibition windows. It forms bevel (chamfer), and the façades are profusely decorated. They are loaded with ornamental motives: Corinthian columns with Hellenistic adornments, with dancing figures, friezes with palms and ovals, and some impressive wooden bay windows with lathed posts, in the ends of the façade, with great wooden eaves finishing everything off.
 * Characteristics of the building**: This building forms, together with the one in front, the point of departure of the street San Vicente. It was built in 1895.