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Antoni Gaudí - Spanish Architect Your starting place for exploring the life and works of Antoni Gaudí, known for his archictural style which is a mix of Gothicism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Oriental styles.
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue - Ecclesiastical Architect Your starting place for exploring the life and works of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, who revolutionized church architecture and popularized Hispanic styles.
How the Panama Canal Inspired Architects Bertram Goodhue's fanciful buildings for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 stirred a renewed interest in Spanish styles.
House Styles and Home Architecture This page is your starting place for exploring house styles, with links to facts, photos, diagrams, and building plans for the most popular housing styles in North America.
Medieval Architecuture Sites concerning architectural styles and terms, technological developments, monastic architecture, churches and cathedrals, and cities and towns.
Barcelona journal: learning and living in the world - American studies Spanish culture and language
BARCELONA, SPAIN At the seaside end of Barcelona's most famous boulevard, La Rambla, soars a statue of Christopher Columbus, his right arm stretching ......(Continue Reading) Building awareness - Architecture in the Art Room
Probably every child recognizes a Coca-Cola[R] or an M&M's[R] logo. A logo identifies a product. A similar symbol is a building for which a city or country is known. For instance, the Statue of Lib...(Continue Reading)Making an Entrance - teaching architecture - Brief Article
Entrances have always been focuses of attention. In structures at all levels of importance, gates, doors and doorways, together with porches and porticos, ......(Continue Reading)Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism & Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 &
MARIA GEORGOPOULOU Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 383 pp.; 136 b/w ills, ......(Continue Reading)A tribute to Gaudi: he was an original thinker, an iconoclast who did things his own way — in spite of the steamroller impact of modernism. John Gough
He was stubborn. He was obstinate. He couldn't care less about the conventions of his time -- actually he contemptuously disregarded them. In death no-one recognized him, except as a poor tramp who...(Continue Reading)
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