2358. Manchester Civil Justice Center

 

Dear Peter,

"A genuinely striking building" (Owen Hatherley)

Regards,

R

2309. St. Catherine's College. Oxford. Oxfordshire. Dining Hall.

 

Querida Luz,

"La filosofía arquitectónica se puede convertir con

demasiada facilidad en algo a lo que uno se apega

para asegurar su propia visión, una almohadilla en

la que se puede dormir perfectamente."

(Arne Jacobsen)

Besos,

R

2266. Tate Gallery Liverpool

 

Dear Suzanne,

"I believe that the shapes of a building should indicate

-perhaps display- the usage and way of life of its

occupants, and it is therefore likely to be rich and

varied in appearance, and its expression is unlikely

to be simple." (James Stirling)

Best,

R

2256. Royal Crescent and the Circus, Bath.

 

Dear Leonardo,

“Nature is not longer the servant of

architecture. The two are equals.”

(Nikolaus Pevsner).

Sincerely,

R

2233. British Library, London UK

 

Dear Eduardo,

"To every scholar a library is a personal

realm of secret topography."

(Colin St. John Wilson)

Sincerely,

R

2187. Tate Gallery. The Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection

 

Dear Edward,

"I believe that the theory of functionalism has been 

the biggest contributor to the progress of architecture

in our century (XX)." (James Stirling)

Regards,

R

1983. Maggie’s Centre, Dundee

 

Dear Monica,

"I think it´s an inviting building, I think people will

want to come inside and spend time there, and I really 

hope that in some small way it might contribute to a 

sense of rejuvenated vigor for moving forward and

living life" (Frank Gehry) 

Warm regards,

R

1934. Scottish Parliament Building

 

Dear Arthur,

"From our recollections of Scotland we find these 

images (a row of Scottish boats laying on the ground 

upside down) that stick in our minds...The boats 

offered by the land. We like these boats not only in 

their construction, but also in their delicate presence 

in a place. Something about their form floating in the 

landscape should be part of our project"

(Enric Miralles)

With gratitude,

R

1928. The Hill House at Helensburgh

 

Dear Margaret,

"You must be independent, don't talk so much but 

do more, go your own way and let your neighbor 

go his" (Charles Rennie Mackintosh)

Regards,

R

1870. Archigram. Drive-in House

Dear Ron,

"You are inventing a life and the

architecture allows you to do it"

(Michael Webb)

Sincerely,

R

1867. Kingsgate Footbridge. Durham

Dear John,

This is the last structure that Ove Arup designed 

and built himself. It was finished in 1963 and 

Arup considered it his finest work.

Regards,

R

1855. The Forth Bridge, Scotland

Querido Paco,

Este famoso puente escocés en ménsula está 

considerado una obra maestra de la ingeniería y 

fue declarado Patrimonio Histórico de la Humanidad 

en 2015. Aquí la antigua idea de la ménsula es 

desarrollada brillantemente a una escala
monumental desconocida hasta entonces.

Un abrazo,
R

1844. London, The Barbican Centre

Dear Alex,

"For most, brutalism is a miserable danger zone of
concrete... But the Barbican reminds us of how 

different it could have been" (Tom Dixon)

Best regards,
R

1740. Lord's Cricket Ground. Media Center

Dear Ryan,

The Media Center was built by a shipyard in Cornwall and when finished in 1999 was the first all aluminium building of the world. The leader designer was Czech architect Jan Kaplický.

Regards,
R

1697. Balfron Tower

Dear Amy,

"The whole object of building high is to free the ground for children and grown-ups to enjoy Mother Earth and not to cover every inch with bricks and mortar." 

(Ernö Goldfinger)

Regards,
R

1641.The Design Museum. "Plain Space" exhibition installation designed by John Pawson.

Dear Nicholas,

"The goal here was to communicate the thinking
and give a sense of the body of work, whilst also
engaging the widest possible audience. Since
engagement is facilitated by first hand experience,
a site-specific, 1:1 installation was conceived as a
key element -the first time anyone had constructed
a building inside the Design Museum"
(John Pawson)

Warm regards,
R

1640. The Design Museum's Shad Thames home.

Dear Dylan,

This charming building was the home of the
world's first museum of mass-produced design.
The building was originally a former 1940s
banana warehouse and was converted to
resemble a building in the international Modernist
Style of the 1930s. In fact, people used to call it
"Bauhaus on Thames"

Best regard,
R

1627. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2001

Dear Berta,

"Architecture should make us feel different,  if not,
engineering should be enough" (Daniel Libeskind)

Sincerely,
R

1618. St. Catherine's College, Oxford

Dear Berta,

(...)
If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
(...)

(T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding)

Best,
Rafael

1612. Serpentine Pavilion 2001

Dear Liam,

"Rigid origami is a part if the study of the mathematics 

of paper folding, and rigid origamis structures can be 

considered as a top of mechanical linkage." 

(Wikipedia, Rigid Origami)

R