Art a la Carte

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Antoni Gaudi and The Eiffel Tower

• Art a la Carte
• Rebels and Revolutions
• Seventh GradeLesson Nine

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Imagine these three images are buildings. What
do you think they would look like? How do you
think changes in painting and sculpture will
affect architecture?
At the Moulin Rouge (1889-1890), detail,
Toulouse-Lautrec
Heroic Bust of Victor Hugo (1890-97), Rodin
Expectation (1905-1909), Klimt
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Context 19th Century Architecture

• Advances in construction materials allowed for
  new kinds of structures in building.
• The use of iron and steel allowed for vast open
  spaces within buildings.
• These innovations led to the first skyscrapers.

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Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)

• Gaudis buildings have been described to look
  like they were molded from clay.
• Gaudis personal style was derived from his
  native culture in Spain.
• Because of the difficulty in construction,
  Gaudis buildings usually took many years to
  construct.

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Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)

• Why do you think Gaudi designed this church to
  look this way?
• How do you think La Sagrada Familia represents
  Gaudis influences?

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Gustav Eiffel (1832 - 1923)

• Eiffel was one of the leading engineers in the
  design and construction of structures during the
  late 19th century.
• The Eiffel Tower was built for the World Expo in
  Paris in 1889 and was the tallest building in the
  world at the time of its construction.
• Due to new advances in iron construction, the
  metal skeleton became a popular feature of
  architectural design.

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Gustav Eiffel (1832-1922)

• Why do you think Parisians disliked the Eiffel
  Tower so much when it was first constructed?
• Why do you think Eiffel chose to only show the
  skeleton of the towers structure?

Eiffel Tower (1889), Eiffel
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How do you think St. Peters would look if Gaudi
had designed it?
St. Peters Basilica, Rome
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If you were to redesign the Eiffel Tower for a
21st century World Expo, how would it look?
What would you change? What would you keep
the same?
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Which do you think has more effect on developing
styles of architecture trends in art or
trends in building innovations?