392. The Charles A. Dana Creative Arts Center Colgate University
Dear Benedetta,
"Architecture is used space formed for psychological and
symbolical reasons. Architecture space overrides all its
integrating elements and concepts by consciously forming
enclosed voids to accommodate human beings in the
totality of their psychic and physical life and in their various
pursuits and intentions"
(Paul Rudolph-"Enigmas of Architecture")
I hope you are doing well.
All the best.
R
391. Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico D.F.
390. Kunsthaus Bregenz. Austellungsansicht Foyer
389. Eglise Notre-Dame du Raincy
Dear Berthold,
"The framework is to the building what the skeleton is
to the animal; as the animal's skeleton, measured,
balanced, symmetrical, contains and supports the most
various and most variously situated organs, so much the
structure of a building be composite, measured,
balanced and also symmetrical" (Auguste Perret)
True, but with some cultural limitations, don't you
agree?
Regards.
R
388. Siege du parti communiste francais-Salle de reunion du Comite Central
387. Cemetery San Michele in Venice
386. Hotel Humboldt. Cima del Avila Caracas (Venezuela)
385. Firenze (Campi Bisenzio) Chiesa di S. Giovanni dell'Autostrada del Sole
Dear Bill,
"This is what counts in my opinion, that the
architecture take you by the hand and
accompany you in discovering something
of yourself with all the uncertainties, the
incongruities, the failings of which we are
compounded and that it bring us to judge
the substance of our spirituality...or our
humanity" (Giovanni Michelucci)
Regards
R
384. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
383. Cervinia. Breuil m. 2050
Dear Lisa,
Franco Albini is considered one of the most important Italian designers of the neo-rationalism. In 1948-52 he designed and built a lodge for boys in Cervinia where he undertook a serious environmental research within the context of the Alps mountain range whereas reinterpreting traditional construction techniques into a modern expression.
Best.
R
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