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Woda dekoracyjna w śródmiejskich przestrzeniach publicznych Barcelony

Publication date: 06.03.2018

Housing Environment, 2018, 22/2018, pp. 4 - 14

https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.18.001.8511

Authors

Mateusz Gyurkovich
Division of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-5234 Orcid
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Decorative water features in public spaces in the centre of Barcelona

Abstract

Water has been accompanying architecture since the dawn of time. It was one of the fundamental conditions enabling to build settlements, and subsequently towns. It secured survival; it enabled the development of civilisations; it constituted one of defence lines against enemies. In time, besides utilitarian functions it started to fulfil symbolic, decorative, and compositional ones. In the Catalan tradition the most prestigious public spaces where not necessarily squares, but rather las ramblas. These are longitudinal tree-lined promenades, typologically characteristic for the local urban culture, designed along rivers and streams, around which towns would develop. These watercourses, once fulfilling utilitarian functions, in time becoming more and more polluted, were subsequently hidden underneath the ground. Over the ages also other, more decorative ways of making use of water reached Catalonia from other parts of Europe. Parks, squares, and piazzas equipped with decorative water features are characteristic places in the downtown landscape of Barcelona and other cities. This paper presents several projects from the years 1899–2015.

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Information

Information: Housing Environment, 2018, 22/2018, pp. 4 - 14

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:

Decorative water features in public spaces in the centre of Barcelona

Polish:

Woda dekoracyjna w śródmiejskich przestrzeniach publicznych Barcelony

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-5234

Mateusz Gyurkovich
Division of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6685-5234 Orcid
All publications →

Division of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland

Published at: 06.03.2018

Article status: Open

Licence: None

Percentage share of authors:

Mateusz Gyurkovich (Author) - 100%

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Publication languages:

Polish, English