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media type="file" key="QUIZZ 2.wma"Moderninsm in Valencia is defined from my point of view of two buildings, which are:

=The XAPA House =





The project belongs to the architects Antonio Martorel Trilles, Emilio Ferrer Gisber and Carlos Carbonell Panella, 1906-1911. It is located in Valencia, Spain, at Gran Via Marqués del Turia, 67.

Characteristics:


 * The Xapa House is constituted by a group of 8 buildings.
 * These 8 buildings have party walls and interior illuminating patios.
 * The group occupies almost half of a block.
 * It is a homogeneous block of houses, in spite of the different authorship.
 * The Xapa House is characterized for its horizontality reinforce by things like the organization of the balconies and the serpentine element of floral decoration.
 * The vertical rhythms are represented by the bevels.
 * The lobbies and the stairways have different interior treatments, alternating the lining between ceramic and marble.
 * The coalition of floral and geometric elements, synthesize formal aspects of the Art Nouveau.


 * Apartment Building 7 and 8**

Sorni St., 23 Félix Pizcueta St., 3



The main characteristics of these two buildings are:
 * They were projected by the architect José Manuel Cortina Pérez.
 * They belong to the modernist historicist style, presenting a medievalist character.
 * They present a wide symmetrical façade,structured in three horizontal bands, clearly differentiatting the basement; as a heavy structure with no more openings than the doors, from the central body with a composition of windows, in wich you can identify each floor, and the top with a great cornice.

So this way we define modernism in Valencia with common characteristics such as rhythm and response symmetry into the street.