Process Note - History of Morocco and Spain, and Architecture of Spain
Travel in Europe 2009/01/01 23:07Proces Note1st Jan. 09
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눌인정사로의 초대 - Morocco's World Heritage, people, custom, cities.
Morocco
History
19th century French colonization
The Sword and the Cross – This imperialistic book is consisted with many adventurous stories which happened in North Africa. Chapter 3 is narrative story about Charles de Foucauld’s geographic exploration in Morocco. I can find few historical facts about Morocco.
From 1860, North Africa had colonized until when he prepare expedition. In that moment, 1880s, when he thought about explore Morocco; the border between Algeria and Tripolitania (Now Libya) was closed. Morocco was potential next colony for France. Border between Algeria, colony of France at that time, and Morocco was indistinct. His travel to Morocco was started from tenth of June in 1883. He arrived Tangier, and go to south followed river Rif. He pass through High Atlas Mountain and arrived Sahara. Before he go to travel, Foucauld meet Oscar MacCarthy, famous explorer Morocco to Sahara, was suggested to pretend to Jews. Foucauld travel to Morocco with Mardochee, an old Rabbi. Foucauld described when he said to Moroccan he is Jews, people usually ignored or throw the stones. But Foucauld also described Jews are cruel.
Spain
History
Granada
Granada 1492 – This book mainly describes about fall of Granada in 1492. It also describes social system and people of last Arab power in Iberia, the Emirate of Granada.
The Emirate of Granada before 1480:
It was not feudal system, but clan system. People used 'al-Gharbi,' western style Arabic which have many Latin-Based words. They also share many festivals with Catholic. But the emirate was defeated in reconquista by Castile.
Architecture
Gaudi: builders of visions - Good example of Gaudi's buildings. I skimmed Gaudi's buildings in Spain.
Useful Links : Gaudiallguadi
Cafe Torino
El Capricho
Designed by Antoni
Gaudi� i Cornet and built between 1883 and 1885 under the direction of the architect Cascante Colom following the
drawings of Gaudi.
The project of this house was commissioned by Maximo Diaz
de Quijano to be his summer house, close to the Sobrellano palace, the
palace of his brother in law - the first Marquis of Comillas -.
The house is a project of a young Gaudi, who had no completely adopted
his definitive Modernist - Art Nouveau - style,
but show here his fantasy combining a contemporary vision of architecture
with the adoption of historical neomudijar elements.
The design of the building is established around a long ground floor with
up two floors, and down a basement for garage and services - at present a
shop selling gaudinist articles. Over the four columns of the entrance it
is a very special tower who breaks the unity of the rest of the building.
The fa�ade is
made in brick adorned with ceramics rows. The forged iron is present in
the balustrades specially around the tower. (gaudiallgaudi.com)
Casa Calvet
Casa Calvet is a building, designed by Antoni Gaudí for a textile manufacturer which served as both a commercial property (in the basement and on the ground floor) and a residence. It is located at 1900 Carrer de Casp 48, Eixample district of Barcelona.
Gaudí scholars agree that this building is the most conventional of his works, partly because it had to be squeezed in between older structures and partly because it was sited in one of the most elegant sections of Barcelona. Its symmetry, balance and orderly rhythm are unusual for Gaudí's works. However, the curves and double gable at the top, the projecting oriel at the entrance— almost baroque in its drama, and isolated witty details are modernista elements.
Bulging balconies alternate with smaller, shallower balconies. Mushrooms above the oriel at the center allude to the owner's favorite hobby.
Columns flanking the entrance are in the form of stacked bobbins— an allusion to the family business of textile manufacture. Lluís Permanyer claims that "the gallery at ground level is the facade's most outstanding feature, a daring combination of wrought iron and stone in which decorative historical elements such as a cypress, an olive tree, horns of plenty, and the Catalan coat of arms can be discerned".
Three sculpted heads at the top also allude to the owner: One is Sant Pere Màrtir Calvet i Carbonell (the owner's father) and two are patron saints of Vilassar, Andreu Calvet's home town. (from Wikipedia)
Link: photographs for casa calvet
Casa Batllo
Links:
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