TY - JOUR
TI - Decorative water features in public spaces in the centre of Barcelona
AU - Gyurkovich, Mateusz
TI - Decorative water features in public spaces in the centre of Barcelona
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2018
IS - 22/2018
PY - 2018
SN - 1731-2442
C1 - 2543-8700
SP - 4
EP - 14
DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.18.001.8511
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/decorative-water-features-in-public-spaces-in-the-centre-of-barcelona
KW - water in the city
KW - park
KW - public space
KW - urban planning of landscape
KW - urban landscape
KW - Barcelona