COMPOSITION

Valencia: a modernist city
The modernism was a movement that developed in the 19th century, principally in Europe. Spain is an important country and example of this movement, for example, Barcelona and Valencia are cities that have modernist buildings everywhere you look.

The majority of the buildings of both cities and in particular of Valencia have the same characteristics like the use of steel, the structure shown in the façade, the use of tiles and stained-glass to add color, curved lines in the façade and interior spaces, allot ornamentation mostly of the times whit organic shapes, presence of rhythm and balconies.

Some important modernist buildings of Valencia are Apartment Building 11 of the architect Lucas García Cardona, Ferrer House of Vicente Ferrer Pérez, The Central Market of Alejandro Soler y March, Francisco Guard Vial and Enrique Viedma, Apartment Building 13 of José Manuel Curtain Pérez and so on.

The modernism was, in some way, the contraposition of the classic style and one of the main goals was to innovate the arts in all ways, it was inspired in the nature and the artist were very symbolic when they created their proyects.