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Art Nouveau

The brief, brilliant moment around 1900 when European architects decided that buildings should grow like plants. Curves replaced corners. Wrought iron bloomed into vines. Tiles rippled across façades. Art Nouveau lasted barely 30 years and produced some of the most personal architecture ever built — Gaudí’s Barcelona is the apex.

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