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Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
7/26/2017

THE REVOLTED ARCHITECT

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Politiquement, j'ai toujours été un révolté. OSCAR NIEMEYER With the end of Estado Novo in Brazil, in 1945, the communist militant...
1/24/2017

MIES AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

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Elle est belle, elle ne signifie rien. ANDRÉ GIDE Where do the sculptures of Aristides Maillol which appear in Mies van der Rohe '...
4/12/2016

"LES HEURES SOMBRES"

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La maison se posera au milieu de l'herbe comme un objet, sans rien déranger. LE CORBUSIER In June 1928 Pierre Savoye, co-founder...
8/23/2013

EUROPAHAUS

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But one thing people like us cannot do without: the big city, where the lights are bright at night. KURT TUCHOLSKY With the passing of t...
4/03/2013

COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE (IV)

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Architektur des Gerüstes, des in All geöffneten Raumes.  BRUNO TAUT  In 1919 Bruno Taut published his Alpine Architektur . An utopian proje...
2/28/2013

POMONA'S TEMPLE

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K.F. Schinkel 'Entwurf für den Pomonatempel bei Potsdam' (1800) Karl Friedrich Schinkel , on the death of  Friedrich Gilly , left th...
1/24/2013

COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE (III)

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Ce n'est pas une tour.  JEAN NOUVEL  To state that the decline of monumentality coincides with the rise of modernity it is not anything ...
11/30/2012

BERLIN NOTES (XLIII)

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Ⓒ Neue Nationalgalerie, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Reinhard Friedrich, 1968. I love Mies . My colleagues may not love Mie...
11/12/2011

COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE (II)

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Thirty years, two continents and two natural disasters separate one from each other. Kisho Kurokawa 'Agricultural City' (1960) It wa...
8/31/2010

COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE (I)

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Simultaneously with his entry as a teacher at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Ludwig Hilberseimer designed a City in the heart of the Friedrichstadt...