Zaha Hadid says of the spaces in the ten "cones" that support this building that the idea was to occupy structure; structure becomes program.To me this is a smart revision of conceptual ideas from Louis Kahn's Yale Art Center project.
The crossed double arches that span the entire interior volume and form the dome, seem to owe a debt to Robert Maillart reinforced concrete structures according to Malcolm Quantrill.
Max Borges along with Felix Candela created in 1951 the very famous Tropicana's Arcos de Cristal. Many pieces of furniture displayed were designed by American designers Charles and Ray Eames. The Arcos de Cristal was one of only few Cuban buildings included in the 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibit entitled "Latin American Architecture since 1945."
Siempre recordare a Rafael Gonzalez Sandino, con su mano posada en la frente y sus ojos perdidos en el infinito recitando a Rilke cuando nos hablaba de arquitectura y filosofia: (...) Si nosotros encontráramos también una pura, contenida, estrecha, humana franja de huerto, nuestra, entre el río y la roca (...) (Rainier Maria Rilke “Las Elegías de Duíno” 1922)
"...el aire era alli el unico actor; actor , y al mismo tiempo artifice sutil, coloreando y modelando cuanto veias con ese tacto magico, que la realidad y la pintura nordica desconocen, en el cual la fuerza no excluye delicadeza ni la gracia severidad" (Luis Cernuda: El Mercado)
Artigas se dice pertenecer a una generacion de arquitectos que luchaban por encontrar soluciones a todos los problemas que surgian. En ese proceso humanistico enciclopedico tan arduo Artigas supo ademas hacer poesia de todo el. Gracias por descubrirme a este gran arquitecto.
I was very lucky last week when I had a chance of visiting The Eames House. As you know, this house was built in 1949 by husband-and-wife design pioneers Charles & Ray Eames, to serve as their home and studio. Since then the house has became a strong architectural statement while remaining an amazingly comfortable and functional living space. The interior including furnitures and all kind of objects remains very much the same they were in the Eames' lifetimes. Now the Eames House is the home of the Eames Foundation.
The first walk-in/drive-in church built in the world by Richard Neutra is more an architectural environment rather than a typical building. When the massive windows open, the building becomes a continuos environment throughout the parking lot and beyond. Neutra said about Garden Grove that it is a place where anyone can sit not only in the sanctuary but also in his car, familiar and dear to the American as a second family home.
Nassau School in Hilversum, built1928 by W.M. Dudok, was one of the building that he designed when appointed as City Architect. Incidentally it is not included on Dudok's Architectural Route on-line brochure, but I assure you it deserves a visit.
This is the statement that appears inscribed on the brow of the House of Work's portal: "The artist will show his world, which never was, nor ever will be" This is a shorter version of the one inside the entrance of the Secession building in Vienna.
Láminas de agua, ramas de árboles que se rozan con la mano,
la Alhambra de Granada, una gran cúpula abierta, jardin interior,
oasis... Así es como Fernando imagino el Hotel en Teguise.
"L'architettura può esprimere i caratteri più essenziali e profondi della cultura attuale e formularli in sintesi d'arte? Se no, il suo interesse decade. Se sì, questo è il suo massimo compito. Alla luce di queste finalità se ne debbono ricercare i massimi valori". (Giuseppe Vaccaro)
"I am, in fact, completely opposed to the idea that a specific building should have an individual character. Rather, I believe that it should express a universal character which has been determined by the total problem which architecture must strive to solve" (Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building)