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Casa Batlló: general view
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Gaudí worked on two major urban residential buildings in parallel with the Parc Güell: the Casa Batlló (1904-06) and the Casa Milà (1906-10), both in the Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona. The Casa Batlló reveals Gaudí's confidence and skill in remodelling an existing building. He added a floor to the original Neo-classicalRelating to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome (classical Antiquity). The classical world played a profoundly important role in the Renaissance, with Italian scholars, writers, and artists seeing their own period as the rebirth (the "renaissance") of classical values after the Middle Ages. The classical world was considered the golden age for the arts, literature, philosophy, and politics. Concepts of the classical, however, changed greatly from one period to the next. Roman literature provided the starting point in the 14th century, scholars patiently finding, editing and translating a wide range of texts. In the 15th century Greek literature, philosophy and art - together with the close study of the remains of Roman buildings and sculptures-expanded the concept of the classical and ensured it remained a vital source of ideas and inspiration. five-storey townhouse and clothed ground and first floors in stone in fantastic, fluid lines like an eroded outcrop of rock. This curvilinear stonework conceals the original rectangular windows within mask-like openings, which are echoed in the iron balustrades of the balconies above.
The higher levels of the redesigned façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. are covered in an abstract tile mosaic, and the whole undulates upwards to a parapet that is like a wave crest and changes colour from end to end. The roof curves in three dimensions and is covered with green ceramic tiles like the scales of a great sea monster. On the fifth floor, there is also a tiny roof-garden from which a circular turret rises to break through the parapet.
Inside the house, the curved forms of the stairway and its path up through the building in its skylit, blue-and-white ceramic-tiled stair-well add to the dynamic analogy.
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title = {Casa Batlló: general view by GAUDÍ, Antoni},
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date = {2026-09-12},
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