Modernism+Valencia

=**Modernism in Valencia, Spain.**=

**The Ortega House**
Modernist building of housings in the line Art Noveau. Built in 1904, designed by Manuel Peris Ferrando, on The Marques del Turia Avenue. It was built as a party wall house. The ornamentation, of the sculptor-decorator Julio Real, is a motley group of natural sculptures, with human representations, animals and floral, that reproduces trees, vine leaves, ivy and anthropomorphic supports ( human forms) which reminds giants from previous epochs. On the access, the balcony has a complicated soaked parapet sustained by two atlantes. The crowing has a cement ivy and big daisies which are intertwined among gnarled earrings, and in the middle, a beautiful stylization of the “Tree of Life”.



**The Central Market**
The market came into being in the Arabian Valencia, in the area around the principal mosque, in a labyrinth of streets and small squares. The permanent character of the market dates back to the times of “Pere el Ceremoniós” who ordered to have new city walls built, permitting an opening to be made in the old ones which would join the old section of the city with the open market which was located under free porticoes, brought out from behind a main façade and adapted to the irregular space provided from the demolition of a convent. The idea of building the Market dates to 1881, when the necessity to lodge all the merchants was imperious. The sanitation and development of the new bourgeoisie provided the cities with potable water, gas, sewer system, etc, as well as enclosures where to locate the improvised kiosks of collapsible awnings. In its time, it was the biggest market in Spain and one of the best from Europe, not in vain its budget was quite high, of nine millions of pesetas of the time. For this reason, the Central Market is, without a doubt, the most representative building of Valencia Modernism. It represents a city surrounded by vegetable gardens that feeds of its products, and of a bourgeoisie that sponsored it because it symbolized the wealth and the prosperity of its earth.



Apartment building 13
This is a residential building constructed at the end of the19th. century, on a lot at a corner, relapsing to the Caballeros street -one of the oldest, complete and representative of the city - and of the Borja family. The building has a ground plant and four superior floors with a single housing for plant. The facades, completed with diverse materials remembering the old palatine constructions of the Caballeros Street, are composed horizontally, with nested and different holes on each one of the four heights.



**The Peris House**
The architect was Carlos Carbonell Pañella. It has an outline of classic composition, with a ground plant, a mezzanine, a main floor, and two plants of housings and a loft that reflects the social hierarchy predominant at the moment. The facade is composed in a symmetrical way. The main floor is emphasized with a long balcony, with mixed parapet of work and forge that is finished off, with two bay windows, in the laterals. In this house, we can appreciate a formed by big kidney-shaped or semicircular bays.