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## History of Art and Architecture ### Victor Horta Hotel Tassel, Brussels by Victor Horta is known for its highly decorated stairwell which makes a refined play on the vegetable and flower forms. ### Antoni Gaudi Casa Mila, Barcelona by Antoni Gaudi is an apartment block with undulating forms and...

## History of Art and Architecture ### Victor Horta Hotel Tassel, Brussels by Victor Horta is known for its highly decorated stairwell which makes a refined play on the vegetable and flower forms. ### Antoni Gaudi Casa Mila, Barcelona by Antoni Gaudi is an apartment block with undulating forms and cast-iron balconies. This coupling of organic form with the new, cast iron fabrication method became a defining characteristic of Art Nouveau architecture. ## XXV. Art Deco Art Deco is a style of decorative art developed in the 1920s with a revival in the 1960s, headed chiefly by geometric motifs, streamlined and curvilinear forms, sharply-defined outlines, often bold colors, and the use of synthetic materials. Art Deco was essentially an eclectic style; its artists and designers plundering a diversity of historic sources. Simultaneously, however, it emphasized modernity, employing the latest industrial materials and techniques. Shortened from Exposition Internationale Des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes. ### The Sagrada Familia (Tem ple of the Holy Spirit) by Gaudi Built since 1882, and is supposed to be finished in 2026, the Barcelona basilica combined Gothic and Art Nouveau elements. ### Paris Metro Entrances by Hector Guimard Hector Guim ard designed 141 models of the Paris entrance to the Métropoli-tain between 1900 and 1913. The architectural forms draw their inspiration from nature, here most notable in the plant stems that support the table in the plant stems that support the ### Distinguishing features 1. Simple, clean shapes. 2. Ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms. 3. Unusually varied, often expensive materials, which frequently include man-made substances (plastics, especially bakelite; vita-glass; and ferroconcrete) in addition to natural ones (jade, silver, ivory, subsidian, chrome, and rock crystal). ### General features in architecture 1. setbacks (inward steps) 2. narrow strips of windows (with strips of concrete/masonry between them, which gives the