POSTALES INVENTADAS: 2016

1435. Academy of Science Building, Canberra, Australia

Querida Luisa,

"Tiende la belleza a la esfericidad"
(María Zambrano- Claros del bosque)

Besos,
R

1434. Torremolinos. Hotel Pez Espada

Querido Alfredo,

"Málaga nos mira por el ojo egipcio de sus jábegas."
(Jean Cocteau)

...y gracias por tu interesante novela.

Saludos cordiales,
R

1433. Hotel DU LAC. Tunis

Dear Louis,

This hotel building is been said to serve as the inspiration for the sandcrawlers used by the jawas in the movie Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope that largely took place in Tunisia. Nonetheless, the architect of this building, that it is now under threat of demolition, was inspired by the Italian Pavilion at the 1954 Zagreb Fair.

Love,
R

1432. Edificio Inca. Guayaquil, Ecuador

Querido Antonio,

"Las formas y los colores nos acercan a la realidad"
(Karl Kohn Kagan)

Un abrazo,
R

1431. Africa Hall. Addis Ababa

Dear Gio,

"The truth is awaiting rediscovery" (Arturo Mezzedimi)

Ciao,
R

1430. Potsdam. Schloss Charlottenhof

Dear Jan

"The sole path to modern greatness lies in the study of the ancient"
(Karl Friedrich Schinkel)

Very best,
R

1429. Baia Mare. Palatul politico-administrativ

Dear Maria,

"Light does not come from light, but from darkness"
(Mircea Eliade)

Best,
R

1428. Schiers. Salgina-Brucke

Dear Corey,

This vintage picture postcard features the famous timber
scaffolding for the bridge. Richard Corey, the engineer who
devised it, miraculously survived a 35 meter fall while
surveying the construction site.

Warm regards,
R

1427. Water reservoir. Cherkasy, Ukraine

Dear Rem,

"Vladimir Shukhov's technical ideas brought world's recognition to the Russian school of engineering and stay actual to this day"

Sincerely,
R

1426. Mallorca. Illetas. Vista general

Querida Pilar,

"El camino es siempre mejor que la posada"
(Miguel de Cervantes)

Besos,
R

1425. Dulles International Airport. Everything Hinges on Hager Here.

Dear Sam,

"The Agora should be no larger than the audible space of
a shout" (Aristotle)

Best,
R

1424. Glen Harder House after Julius Shulman

Dear Glenn,

"The artist must have an unlimited capacity and range for feeling, an insatiable curiosity and boundless enthusiasm" (Bruce Goff)

Best regards,
R

1423. Torino - Palazzo Uffici Lancia

Dear Vincenzo,

"Man cannot plan the world without designing himself"
(Rudolph Schwarz)

Regards,
R

1422. Edificio Telecom. Barranquilla, Colombia

Querido Rafa,

Bonita foto de los pocos edificios que se construyeron siguiendo las recomendaciones marcadas en el plan de desarrollo urbano encargado a Le Corbusier, Paul Lester Wiener y José Luís Sert. Al fondo el soberbio Edificio Nacional de Leopoldo Rother (1952) y en primer plano el no menos magnífico edificio de Comunicaciones (Telecom) terminado en 1965 según los planos del arquitecto local Manuel de Andreis.

Un abrazo,
R

1421. Vietnam, Dalat Market

Dear Christian,

"It is the city which should be judged though we, its children, must pay the price" (Lawrence Durrell, Justine)

Best,

1420. Jyväskylä Suomi Yliopisto

Dear José,

The picture shows a view of the foyer of the main building of the Pedagogical Institute of Jyväskylä.

This graceful space leads visitors to the main

auditorium and works as a public realm thanks to its generous dimensions.

Regards,
R

1419. The roofless church. New Harmony, Indiana

Dear Alvaro,

"I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to

me as a potential work of art"

(Philip Cortelyou Johnson)

Warm regards,
R

1418. Karlshamn Samrealskolan

Dear Colin,

...Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place

(T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent)

Regards,
R

1417. Hotelli Pohjanhovi, Rovaniemi

Dear Erkki,

This is a vintage postcard featuring an interior view of the
original Pohjanhovi Hotel in Rovaniemi. Bold forms while coherent detailing were designed by architects Märta and Pauli Blomsted. Unfortunately this building was destroyed during the Second World War.

Sincerely,
R

1416. Bellevue Beach, Copenhagen

Querido Félix,

He aquí una postal antigua de la playa Bellavista,

en el suburbio de Klampenborg. Al fondo, algo

eclipsado por el falso colorido y la aparente alegría

de los bañistas, se ven los famosos apartamentos

Bellavista aún en construcción como se revela la

presencia de los andamios en el edificio más

cercano. Más allá y a la derecha, se aprecia el

restaurante y el teatro.

Afectuosamente,
R

1415. Stuttgart, Schocken

Querido abuelo,

Hace 8 años te mandé a través de éste blog una postal

con ésta misma imagen pero en blanco y negro. La

postal de la que te hablo es la número 3 de ésta

colección, ya casi interminable. Me gustó mucho encontrar ésta otra coloreada y no dudé en comprarla

para mandártela como siempre hago cuando encuentro
una que muestre un edificio de Erich Mendelsohn.

Te quiero y te sigo echando de menos.
R

1414. Tekniska Höskolan i Stockholm, Flygfoto

Dear Ingrid,

The building enclosed within the red circle is the original Students Union at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. This building, named by students as Nymble, was designed by Sven Markelius and Uno Åhrén, and is one of the first modernist buildings ever built in Sweden.

Sincerely,
R

1413. Zaragoza. Edificio de Juzgados

Querido Iñaki,

"Como en las ciencias exactas, una definición operativa

es más cierta; una definición operativa a través del conjunto de problemas de la arquitectura y de los de su enseñanza" (Alejandro de la Sota)

Saludos,
R

PS. Encerrado en el círculo rojo el Edificio de Juzgados de Zaragoza, obra de Alejandro de la Sota

1412. Heizhaus un Glashaus am Goetheanum

Dear Maggie,

A view of the Goetheanum building complex's boiler room and a thought by Rudolph Steiner, his architect:
"You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as a teacher"

Cheers.
R

1411. Motel Xenia, Larissa.

Dear Sam,

"True architecture, like any true art, must be indigenous,
not international" (Aris Konstantinidis)

Best,
R

1410. Brasilia. Palacio da Alvorada.

Querida Emilia,

"En la obra de Oscar Niemeyer esa especie de experimentación, -la questión del hormigón, de

las formas, de la cristalografía, de esa posibilidad

para el hombre de construir sus propias rocas- es
un discurso" (Paulo Mendes da Rocha)

Saludos,
R

1409. Volksschule Darmstadt (unbuilt)

Dear Martin,

"Humans are intruders and not part of this world.

Their way of being in the world is not to dwell in it,

but to seek wellbeing in it"
(José Ortega y Gasset)

Best wishes,
R

1408. Pabellón de la Navegación, Sevilla

Querido Manolo,

"Otro rasgo característico de la obra de Vázquez Consuegra es su maestría y sensibilidad al contraponer horizontales y verticales, macizos y huecos, elementos metálicos esbeltísimos y obra vista recia o estucados austeros" (Peter Buchanan)

Un abrazo,
R

1407. IBM Thomas J. Watson research Center

Dear Juan,

...the scientist's venture into the unknown.

L
R

1406. Heerlen. Nieuwbouw schunck

Papá,

(...)
no hay nada en mí sino una larga herida,
una oquedal que ya nadie recorre,
presente sin ventanas, pensamiento
que vuelve, se repite, se refleja
y se pierde en su misma transparencia,
(...)
(Octavio Paz, Piedra de Sol)

HMSDQ
R

1405. Cerkev sv. Mihaela na Barju

Dear Helena,

"One could claim that Jože Plečnik adopted a kind of postmodern attitude regarding historicism and modern movement, but he was much more radical, much more adventurous, and reckless than any of today's postmodernists." (Frederick Achleitner)

Sincerely,
R

1404. Paris. Immeuble Rue Agar

Dear David,

"Architecture contains within itself everyone of the other arts, without exception." (Hector Guimard)

Best regards,
R

1403. Keskuskatu ja Kirjatalo. Helsingfors, Suomi.

Dear Sarah,

Two remarkable structures designed by Alvar Aalto can be seen adjacent to the brick building drew by Eliel Saarinen in 1930. To the far left the Rautatalo Office

or "Iron House" finished in 1955. To the right and occupying the corner, The Academic Bookshop Building, that also houses the Stockmann department store,

designed between 1962 and 1966 and built in 1969.

Best,
R

POSTALES INVENTADAS