After reading the article "Gaudí
in New York" you should complete the following exercises:
1. Answer these questions:
- What happened on January 23rd?
- What is 'Ground Zero'?
- What is 'Hotel Attraction'?
- When was it conceived?
- Describe the architectural design
of Hotel Attraction
- Why does the plan include 5 five dining
facilities?
- What does Cosmopolitan mean?
- Gaudi had mason sympathies. Do all his biographers agree with
this?
- Which movement was Gaudi immersed in?
- Why did the the Catalan bourgeoisie
at the end of the 19th century build
big houses?
2. Say whether these sentences are
True or False (you may have to visit the links
to answer this)
- Gaudí decided to study Architecture in 1860
- The gallerycalled John McEnroe
Gallery is in Manhattan
- There are twenty-six research centers
and institutes
- New Yorkers are proud of the fact that the city is awash with
foreigners
- Before the Revolutionary war in 1783 New York had always been
under British dominion
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