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 * Modern Architecture: The gates of tomorrow**

The art has been alway sensitive about the changes in the world (Not to mention that some of those changes were consecuence of the clout of art), and modernism was a result of that sensitivity against the new technologies that the industrial revolution bringed to the world. There were also other artistic currents that treated these topic such as Futurism, Dadaism, etc. But in any case, architecture had it's own ideals about the way these new technologies should change the art of designing.

Spain had, as every country, it's own way to respond to this phenomenon. They tended to reject the international style and made their own researches on the field, experimenting with technics and materials. The result was a completly diferent modern style. They used materials that nobody else used, and they took advantage of the new technologies of construction to create new interesting forms and spaces.

However, the modern architecture that Spain had wasn't so diferent from the previos architectural styles meanwhile other countries such as the United States of America made a "quamtum leap" in the ways of design. Anyways, this could had been too much for Spain, so thas why they took the decisions they took and they stood behind them.

But even if they looked a lot like previous styles, the style developed in spain by architects such as Antoni Gaudi and Josep Puig was a devoted follower of the organic way of design. Curves and softened edges, shriveled forms and twisted details, colors and colored spots. Everything in this style reminds of the nature and it's delicate details.

Spain had an style like no other, but not just because of the use of materials in new ways, or because of the strage/organic forms they gave to the buildings, but beacuse of the mix of cultures and the mark the arabic ways left in it. The influence of it is undeniable and indelible.

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