Walking the Parc Güell

 

Walking the Parc Güell

 A few of the photos I took a couple of weeks ago, on a walk through Antoni Gaudí’s beautiful park. The first one shows the living stone of the Carmel Hill, where the park is located. Then more of this metamorphic rock covered with lichen. Finally, a third pic showing a stairway leading up to columns using Gaudí’s system of building---derived more from Nature, less from French curves and ruled lines. However, my inexpert thoughts are indebted to Scott Engering’s blog, The Language of Stone at

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=uhf_2013

and to Marc Pantano’s article “Reading Gaudí’s book of nature: Reconsidering the peripheral perception of proto-environmental architecture” at

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=uhf_2013

My pictures:

 

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