Irina Swain Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ Parc Güell Parc Güell Parc Güell was planned by Antoni Gaudí and Eusebi Güell and is located in Barcelona, Spain Jayati Vyas, Benjamin Fraser Camille Kresz 02/27/2017 English, Spanish Document, Still Image, Sound Park Güell Antoni Gaudí and Eusebi Güell began construction of Park Güell, a vast garden suburb above the city in Barri de la Salut in Gràcia in June 1900. “For fourteen years, Güell and Gaudi collaborated on what had begun as a garden suburb for sixty families set on 37 acres of rugged terrain on the Collserola range” (Kent 2002: 226). Its purpose was to lure buyers to an English-style high-income subdivision (Sobrer 2002: 214). Each of the sixty families was to have an individual house. No wall could be higher than 80 centimeters and no hedges or other obstructions were permitted. “Wildness in nature was celebrated and protected: Oaks, carob trees, Spanish broom, rosemary, and other indigenous plants were preserved” (Kent 2002: 226). Gaudí created the garden with a series of references to Paradise, through allusions to the sacred mountain of Monserrat and the grottoes and shrines of traditional Catalonia that he incorporated into the site's layout” (Kent 2002: 226). The road and path system in Park Güell was to be an interlocking network more than a grid, in contrast to Cerdá’s design for the Eixample, the district beside Park Güell (Hall 1997). Although the commercial project eventually failed, it did not inhibit Gaudí from constructing a massive stone Golgatha at the park summit. Now, there is a brilliantly tiled bench that wraps around the central theater of the park, a Doric-style hypostyle hall that provides space for civic functions and celebration of local festivities honoring Catalan culture.  Item changed by user 26 at 2017-03-08 14:00:33.Updated: CreatorItem changed by user 26 at 2017-02-27 11:44:00.Created manually by user