Neo-Mudéjar Architecture

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · Jan 13, 2018 (Edited)

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The Neo-Mudéjar is a type of revival architecture that appeared in the late 19th century in Madrid, and soon spread to other regions of Spain.
This architectural movement emerged as a revival of the Mudéjar style, a symbiosis of techniques and ways of creating architecture resulting from Christian and Muslim cultures in medieval Spain. In erecting Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance buildings, builders used elements of Islamic art and often achieved striking results. It is characterised by the use of brick as the main material.

The Plaza de España in Seville, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Neo-Mudéjar style.

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #2 · Jan 13, 2018

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The Palacete Laredo, in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), is a palace built as a private dwelling between 1880 and 1884. It is of neo-Mudejar style, with interior decoration in plasterwork and tiles of oriental inspiration, like the minaret with a clock that looks out.

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jan 13, 2018

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La Adriática building was built in Seville between 1914 and 1922.
Designed by the architect José Espiau y Muñoz, for the insurance company La Adriática, it is a example of eclectic architecture, with forms in which the Neomudéjar style predominates.

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JMGA196

· #4 · Jan 14, 2018

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Casa Mudejar, Guatemala City, 1895

Built by businessman Alfredo Rodriguez after his many trips through Europe and Morocco. It was the British Embassy in Guatemala during the 1910s.

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-15 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-16 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-6 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-7 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-9 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-5 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-11 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

Casa Mudéjar en Guatemala-3 by Rony Herrarte, en Flickr

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jan 14, 2018

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incredible that example from Guatemala

Arenas de Barcelona, is a shopping and leisure center located in the building remodeled by Richard Rogers of the old bullring of Las Arenas de Barcelona (1900).

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Nolke

· #6 · Jan 14, 2018 (Edited)

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franciscoc said:
La Adriática building was built in Seville between 1914 and 1922.
Designed by the architect José Espiau y Muñoz, for the insurance company La Adriática, it is a example of eclectic architecture, with forms in which the Neomudéjar style predominates.

Same city, same architect, same period and same style (combination of mudéjar and gothic-plateresque):

http://sevilla.abc.es/estilo/buleva...-londres-se-convierte-en-tienda-de-pronovias/

By Lara in minube
https://www.minube.com/fotos/rincon/58719

This one inspired a (much larger) building in a place as far away as Antofagasta in northern Chile:

http://www.antofagastaturismo.cl/pages_e/antofa_lugares.php

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Nolke

· #7 · Jan 14, 2018 (Edited)

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Espiau is also notable for having designed the Alfonso XIII hotel (also in Seville, like most of his production), began in 1916:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...la#/media/File:Sevilla-hotel_Alfonso_XIII.jpg

This one has a larger amount of baroque-inspired elements, more in line with the work of Aníbal González in the first post:

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...la#/media/File:Sevilla-hotel_Alfonso_XIII.jpg

https://rutacultural.com/hoteles-de-sevilla/

Source: https://www.ebookers.com/Province-Of-Seville-Hotels-Hotel-Alfonso-XIII.h5692.Hotel-Information

Source: http://www.hotel-alfonsoxiii-seville.com/meetings/en/room/patio

This is another building by him in Seville, from about the same time, with tiles and combined arches:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sevilla_069.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edificio_Pedro_Roldán_001.jpg

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Épicolx

· #8 · Jan 14, 2018

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Praça de touros do Campo Pequeno, in Lisbon. Inaugurated in 1892:

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #9 · Jan 14, 2018

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Fantastic Alfonso XIII hotel in Seville, the apotheosis of neo-Mudejar decoration and the most sumptuous hotel in this style. I put some more photo.

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #10 · Jan 14, 2018

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Faculty of the University of Granada (1891-1894)

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Nolke

· #11 · Jan 14, 2018

Palacio de las Ursulinas in Havana, Cuba

el palmesano said:
La Habana

CUBA-IV-V-10-HAV1-551 por Tai Pan of HK, en Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielboterol/6807814134/sizes/l/in/photostream/

DSC06321s La Habana Vieja por Ashod Alemian, en Flickr

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Nolke

· #12 · Jan 14, 2018 (Edited)

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Something similar to the Seville mudéjar-rich eclecticism was done by Guerrero Strachan in Málaga, who built the great Casas de Félix Sáez (1922). Two adjacent buildings, one is more properly mudéjar (with foreign influences), the other is essentially plateresque (early Renassaince arch. in Spain) with mudejar elements, like tiles, ceramic roofs and eaves:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casas_de_Félix_Sáenz_02.jpg

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #13 · Jan 14, 2018

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The railway station of Toledo is a monumental station work of the architect Narciso Clavería. The construction was carried out between 1916 and 1917. It was restored in 2005 with the arrival of high speed.
Of Neomudéjar style, brick, stone, iron and cement were used for its construction. It has a hall of great ornamental richness that offers a good sample of the Toledo craftsmanship and goldsmithing: mosaics of tiles, lattices, lockers and forged lamps.

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Nolke

· #14 · Jan 14, 2018 (Edited)

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Random architecture in Malaga, mostly by architect Rubio Sánchez. The visible relationship between neomudejar and art nouveau is something to be explored later (perhaps with examples from the Catalan-speaking regions).

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercado_de_Salamanca_(Málaga)#/media/File:Mercado_de_Salamanca.jpg

By Juan Jiménez Rodríguez
http://objetivomalaga.diariosur.es/fotos-juan-jimenez-rodriguez/balcon-arabe-263595.html

http://malagaarquitecta.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/edificio-de-viviendas-sagasta-5.html

http://malagaenelcorazon.com/arquitectura-de-daniel-rubio-sanchez/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...n_Andalusia_Malaga_BW_2015-10-24_10-25-09.jpg

http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2016/06/09/57594e9a468aeba5378b458f.html

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Nolke

· #15 · Jan 14, 2018 (Edited)

Before anybody asks, since there's already a thread on so-called Neo-Moorish architecture here: mudéjar's singularity is that it's the result of the combination of Islamic architectural elements with Western ones (so that for example in this balcony you can actually see gothic tracery at the bottom). However, conventionally, the label might be broadened to encompass neo-Moorish architecture, but such style isn't neomudejar sensu stricto. The boundary is of course a very blurry one.

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Nolke

· #16 · Jan 15, 2018 (Edited)

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One of my favourite buildings in this style is Plaza de Armas train station in Seville (1899). One of the two old train stations in the city, nowadays turned into a mall.

Old pictures in the public domain:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sevilla_inside_old_Plaza_de_Armas_station.JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estación_de_Ferrocarriles_de_la_Plaza_de_Armas.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sevilla2005July_052.jpg

Plaza de Armas by BYTE RIDER, en Flickr

Plaza de Armas by BYTE RIDER, en Flickr

From BingMaps (the façade is undergoing a never-ending renovation):

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #17 · Jan 15, 2018

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Palau de la Premsa, Barcelona (1926)

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #18 · Jan 15, 2018

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CaixaForum is a museum and cultural center in Madrid. The old Neomudéjar electrical station was built in the year 1900. It was renovated by the architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron.

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franciscoc

Discussion Starter · #19 · Jan 15, 2018

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The historical building of the University of Barcelona was built between 1863 and 1889.
Hall of Degrees or Paraninfo is a space for the most important academic events. Neomudèjar style elements are present in all points of space; the coffered ceiling, the polychrome plaster on the walls, etc. The Pafaninfo was just built in 1884, the last intervention is the placement of the six history tables, related to research, higher education and university in the Hispanic kingdoms (understood as a unit), which decorate the time project and reinforce the ideas of this.

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Nolke

· #20 · Jan 15, 2018

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Costurero de la Reina in Seville (1893). Formerly a part of a nobility palace garden, this was the guardian's house.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costurero_de_la_Reina,_Sevilla,_España,_2016_07.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costurero_de_la_Reina,_Sevilla,_España,_2016_01.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costurero_de_la_Reina,_Sevilla,_España,_2016_02.jpg

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