Modernism.+Valencia

Valencia City Hall
**Location:** Valencia, Spain




 * Characteristics of the building: **

- The design of the building is responding entirely to it's function (is a public building), academicist style. - It is mainly conformed by by two unified bodies. - Despite the scale of the building that makes it imponent to the spectator it is still very sober. - The facade is composed by a number of elements (doors, windows, balconies, columns) that are repeating themselves along the entire structure. They work in harmony with each other. - It is conformed by planes and simple forms like arches, orthogonal angles, some semicircles and columns. All of them responding to their specific function. - The ornament is conformed by the structural elements, meaning, the architect thought there was no need to add anything just because it looked beautiful or was forming any kind of esthetic function. - Beauty = Function. Meaning the building it's beautiful because it is able to accomplished the purpose for which it was created. - It has marble figures in low-relief representing Administration and Justice.

===** The XAPA house ** ===

**Location:** Canovas del Castillo square, Madrid, Spain




 * Characteristics of the building:**

- The building is part of an eight building architectural block. - The balconie's organization is creating a rhythm in the facades of the building. - They are also emphazising the horizontal character of the structure. - The material changes to ceramic and marble only to mark the apperance of the stairways and lobbies. - In the facade you can visualize the different treatment between the main floor and the rest of the building (apartments) given by the architect. - The design of the building is formed by simple forms like planes, arches and orthogonal angles. - Each element conforming this structure is responding to it's functional aspect.