page_title: History of architecture
section_title: Art Nouveau
hierarchical_section_title: History of architecture / European and colonial architecture / Art Nouveau
caption_attribution_description: Décor de l'immeuble conçu en 1903, situé au 2 rue Eugène-Manuel à Paris, par l'architecte Charles Klein et le céramiste Emile Muller. L'édifice très coloré en bleu-vert et ocre est du plus beau style art nouveau. Il est recouvert de grès flammé en céramique avec une décoration déclinant les chardons (inspirée du peintre Eugène Grasset) . L'immeuble est inscrit à l'inventaire des Monuments historiques A consulter&#160;: paris1900.blogspot.com/2007/05/2-rue-eugne-manuel-et-9-ru... lartnouveau.com/belle_epoque/architectes_paris/paris16/ch...
context_page_description: The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The branches of architecture are civil, sacred, naval, military, and landscape architecture.
context_section_description: Around 1900 a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents with new social demands and technological possibilities, being inspired by natural forms and structures, particularly the curved lines of plants and flowers. The work of Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde in Brussels, Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, among many others, can be seen as a common struggle between old and new.
  Art Nouveau architecture was a reaction against the eclectic styles that dominated European architecture in the second half of the 19th century. It was expressed through decoration: either ornamental (based on flowers and plants, e.g. thistles, irises, cyclamens, orchids, water lilies, etc.) or sculptural (see the respective section below). While faces of people (or mascarons) are referred to ornament, the use of people in different forms of sculpture (statues and reliefs: see the respective section below) were also typical for Art Nouveau. Before Vienna Secession, Jugendstil and National romantic style façades were asymmetrical, and often decorated with polychrome ceramic tiles. The decoration usually suggested movement; there was no distinction between the structure and the ornament. The whiplash motif, adapted from vegetal forms, was widely used.
caption: Thistles and curve-lined mascarons in decoration of Les Chardons building by Charles Klein in Paris, built in 1903
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