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Valencia, the modernist corner of the world.

Modernism is the term that designates a stream of artistic innovation developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a movement which brings a vitalist touch of hope for many people: industry is believed to help spiritual and material fields of life. It's about creating a new aesthetic, in which predominate the inspire in nature while incorporating innovations arising from the industrial revolution.

Developed over the world with different characteristics and different names: Art Nouveau (in Belgium and France), Modern Style (in England), Sezession (Austria), Jugendstil (Germany and Nordic countries), Liberty (U.S.), etc., stands as a remarkable example of this trend the city of Valencia in Spain: the modernist corner of the world.

With its own personality, Valencia joined the Modernist movement very early and has very emblematic modernist buildings, which remain intact to contrast with the futuristic architecture that is being built in recent years.



Valencia´s Modernist Architecture is characterized by a total rupture with the above. Until then architectural styles rushed to reproduce past forms, the new architecture turns around and chooses new aesthetic ideals and, compared to the simplicity of functionalism, in modernism born all kinds of decorations inside and outside housing. The walls are filled decorative elements, in which predominant floral details and animals. A brief tour of the main modernist buildings Valencia shows spectacular corners of a city, in which architects like Francisco Mora, Domenech Montaner, Demetrio Ribes, Alejandro Soler, Francisco Javier Goerlich, Vicente Ferrer and Francesc Guard, among others, put the imagination at their service and fill with ornaments their facades.



Valencia reflects the wealth of the ornate and also maintains and renews traditional building techniques and decoration materials old as the brick, and other new-at that time-like iron and ceramic. Elements and strategies in the composition of buildings (symmetrical response in corners, rhythmic balconies, decorative outgoing) give it a unified character to the city and makes of Valencia streets a permanent exhibition of modernist architecture, a small museum that allows us to see the freedom of imagination and the mark of local artists who made of this city the modernist corner of the world.

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