"I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience" (Richard Neutra)
The Herrengasse Skyscraper was the first materialization of the Skyscraper concept built in Vienna in 1935; though the stepped top floors are visible only from a certain distance.
Esta Casa del Fascio fue contruida en 1933 por Luigi Vietti, arquitecto cercano al circulo del Gruppo 7 y a su lider Terragni. La frescura y el atrevimiento de esta arquitectura evocan claramente las obras del maestro de Como.
The Bijenkorf (The Beehive) department store in Eidhoven was designed by architect Gio Ponti and built in 1967. It took the typical Dutch polder landscape as his inspiration for the façades that are finished almost exclusively with ceramic tiles in multiple shades of green.
"Por si el tiempo me arrastra a playas desiertas hoy cierro yo el libro de las horas muertas. Hago pajaros de barro Hago pajaros de barro y los echo a volar" (M. Garcia Garcia-Perez)
Estas salas que hizoMoneo se convirtieron en otra cosa y se echaron a volar
"...So this illustrated the most important thing of all, which is that you are able to imagine a life lived by people before you begin to design" (Jørn Utzon)
“Reflection and action respectively complement and balance each other and must be alternated. Just like we need both legs to make steps forwards: action and reflection.” (Antoni Gaudi) Here's an interesting postcard of Gaudi's Casa Mila still under construction.