2468. Frente de la Basilica de Ntra. Sra. de La Altagracia. Higüey, República Dominicana.

 

Querido Juan Carlos,

Los arquitectos de esta gran basílica construyeron

un edifico de hormigón armado de una escala

monumental que justificaron con la necesidad

del edificio de soportar los huracanes que golpean a este

país regularmente.

Un abrazo,

R

2445. Munich, Olympic Park. Swimming Stadium and Olympic Tower

 

Dear Michael,

“We should work on making our world understandable 

and not make it more confused. What looks like wood 

should also be wood and iron should remain iron.”

(Günther Behnisch)

Regards,

R

2393. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Dear Mary,

"Monumentality is enigmatic. It can not be intentionally

created." (Louis I. Kahn)

Regards,

R

2379. Kimbell Art Museum, Library

Querida Cristina,

"La estructura es la proveedora de luz."

(Louis Kahn)

Besos,

R

2302. Edificio Waldem/7, Barcelona.

 

Querido Joan,

"Yo he querido revisar la arquitectura de los lugares,

la de la historia y a mí mismo. Ponerme en crisis me

da energía." (Ricardo Bofill)

Saludos cordiales,

R

2265. Brasil. Rio de Janeiro, Hotel Nacional

 

Dear Sabrina,

"An architectural work must be 

beautiful, light, different."

(Oscar Niemeyer)

Regards,

R

2141. Nordjyllannds Kunstmuseum, Aalborg Denmark

 

Querido Jordi.

"La arquitectura moderna no significa el uso de

nuevos materiales, sino utilizar los materiales 

existentes en una forma más humana"

(Alvar Aalto)

Un abrazo,

R

2058. Neue Wallfahrtkirche, Neviges

 

Dear Sybille,

"History has a natural continuity which must be respected"

(Gottfried Böhm)

PS. Gracias por llevarnos a visitar este espacio 

mágico en una tarde de verano que se nos fue 

haciendo penumbra y casi total oscuridad 

como en un sueño.

Besos,

R

1955. Indiana's Pyramids

 

Dear Sean,

"On occasion, there is a big gesture, and that's okay,
but I am basically a problem-solving construction guy"
(Kevin Roche)

Best regards,
R

1861. Legnano Sabbiadoro. La terrazza a mare

Caro Juan

Saluti da Lignano.

R

1834. Baldegg. Kloster und Schule

Dear Walter,

"Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of
this world" (Francis of Assisi)

Sincerely,
R

1736. Haludovo Palace Hotel, Krk, Malinska, Croatia

Dear Josip,

"You have to feel, experience and understand the space's spirit in which you create." (Boris Magaš)

Sincerely,
R

1630. Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth TX

Dear Sybille,

"Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love" (Luis I. Kahn)

R

1588. Carlton Center. Johannesburg, South Africa

Dear Ted,

Since built in 1972 the Carlton Center has been the tallest office building in all Africa. Its topmost 50th floor is widely known as the "Top of Africa".

Best,
R

1587. The Transamerica Pyramid

Dear Juan,

"William Pereira is one of those modernist who truly shaped postwar California. His buildings did as much as those of any architect to give modern architecture public face and to make it the symbol of the new world taking form in California in the nineteen-forties, fiftties, ans sixties" (Paul Goldberger)

Sincerely,
R

1580. Trellick Tower.

Dear Jim,

"The success of any scheme depends on the human factor
- the relationship of people to each other and the frame to their daily life which the building provides." 

(Ernő Goldfinger)

Yours faithfully,
R

1429. Baia Mare. Palatul politico-administrativ

Dear Maria,

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

Best,
R

1279. Kimbell Art Museum. Interior. Fort Worth, TX

Querido Miguel Angel,

"Sólo debe ser lo que puede ser y sólo puede ser lo que se
mueve dentro de las condiciones de lo que es."
(José Ortega y Gasset)

Saludos,
R

1273. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Washington, D.C.

Dear Erick,

"Unlike the modernist mindset, our projects are always designed to absorb unpredictable changes" (Francince Houben of Mecanoo)

Sincerely,
R

1259. Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum. Interior

Dear Ane,

"If you build according to everyone's advise, you will end
having a crooked house" (Danish Proverb)

Regards,
R