Quiz_2

media type="file" key="quiz 2 parte 1.wma" width="196" height="56" Architecture in Valencia Valencia is a place that serves as an excellent example of modernist architecture. Most of the buildings are built in a classic style and just by looking at them you can easily understand what modernist architecture is about, especially when you analyze, compare and contrast the buildings next to each other.
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 * City Hall in Ayuntamiento Square ||

The architects, such as Jose Manuel Cortina Perez and Miguel angel navarrese, seem to be influenced by baroque or medieval styles because of the outstanding and rich façades of the buildings they design, but as a whole they are considered modernist buildings. The different elements of each building are not to be confused with decorative elements because this goes against modernist architecture, and nothing modernist has a mere ornamental function. Instead, each building is finished off with different elements to reinforce its unit and its horizontality. They have similar characteristics, such as the organization of the façades, which are usually divided into horizontal bands that can clearly be distinguished from the outside, and in consequence this organizes the spaces inside, following one of the major rules of modern architecture, form follows function. This makes the basement different from the central body and the central body different from the top.
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 * Apartment building 7 ||
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 * Xapa House in Ayuntamiento Square ||

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Another common characteristic of the modernist buildings in Valencia is the presence of central symmetry, whether it is represented on the façades ordered around a central body, or in the distribution of the spaces inside the building, having a nucleus around which the rest of the building is developed.

In my opinion the modernist architecture in Valencia is beautiful; the façades are always dominant, wide and enriched with various elements that invite the pedestrians to enter the buildings. I imagine that walking around Ayuntamiento Square or living in the block where the apartment buildings 7 and 8 are standing must give a person an overwhelming feeling, especially if the person is an architect and understands the complexity and the details put into every structure.