POSTALES INVENTADAS

1473. Balneario La Floresta. Hotel Casino. Uruguay

Querida Sara,

" La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver"
(Octavio Paz)

Recuerdos,
R

1472. La Manga. Costa Cálida

Estimada Victoria,

"Los elementos arquitectónicos que formarán la

nueva ciudad estarán formados por una serie, poco

numerosa, de estructuras sistematizadas"

(Antonio Bonet Castellana)

En primer término el club náutico Dos Mares,

proyectado por Antonio Bonet y acabado en 1966.

Sigo admirando la primorosa obra de su padre.

R

1471. Copenhagen. Vesterbro Passage at night

Dear Finn,

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack
of skill, the doubt" (Arne Jacobsen)

Best,
R

1470. Indiana Dunes State Park, Chesterton IN

Dear Elizabeth,

"-I'd like to know what Otto Wagner can do for you that
your father can't do!-. This was the way he invited me to
work with him" (My Father - John Lloyd Wright)

Sincerely,
R

1469. Railway Station, Johannesburg, South Africa

Querido Alex,

(...)
No mires nunca atrás,
vete despacio
y reza como yo
a San Cayetano,
que ni tú ni yo estamos
en disposición
de encontrarnos.

(Encuentro- Federico García Lorca)

Saludos,
R

1468. Stadtteilbibliothek Münster

Dear Jan,

"In my opinion what is necessary is a wider cultural re-validation, a new mythology of the physical, the material" (Peter Wilson)

Best,
R

1467. Venosta. Albergo Val Martello

Dear Romina,

"The architect must imagine for each window a person at
the sill, for each door a person passing through" (Gio Ponti)

Best regards,
R

1466. La Maison du Peuple de Bruxelles

Dear David,

"What I prefer in the flower is the stem" (Victor Horta)

Warmest regards,
R

1465. Chain Houses (Ketjutalo), Tapiola, Finland

Estimado Timo,

Para Aulis Blomstedt estructura y proporción son los
elementos que subyacen en toda obra de arquitectura.

Saludos,
R

1464. Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Dear Greg,

"Today is that tomorrow you thought about yesterday"
(American proverb)

Best,
R

1463. Motel Xenia, Paliouri, Chalkidikis, Greece

Dear Aris,

"Wine and truth" (ancient Greek saying)

Much respect,
R

1462. Aalto Musiktheater Essen

Dear Elissa,

"We should work for simple, good, undecorated things"
(Alvar Aalto)

Respectfully,
R

1461. A Coruña. Domus, Casa del Hombre

Querido Manuel,

"Los materiales son a la arquitectura lo que las palabras a
la literatura" (César Portela)

Saludos,
R

1460. Communal House, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Dear Fidel,

This building followed a similar scheme as in the very experimental housing project that was Narkomfin in Moscow, also designed by Ginzburg simultaneously with this one in Ekaterinburg. This building however seems to have a more secure future than its counterpart in Moscow.

Cheers,
R

1459. Fiumicino. Aeroporto Intercontinentale di Roma

Dear Gio,

"If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together" (African Proverb)

Saluti,
R

1458. Bellavista Tegnet af Arne Jacobsen.

Querido Félix,

"Cuando has estado viajando por el extranjero nada es más
entrañable que regresar a casa" (Arne Jacobsen)

Saludos cordiales,
R

1457. Turku Uutta Arkkitehtuuria. KOP Bank building, Turku

Dear Albert,

"The echo knows all languages" (Finnish proverb)

Cheers,
R

1456. Oslo

Dear Peter,

A postcard featuring the Norwegian National Opera and
Ballet designed by Tarald Lundevall of Snøhetta,
"In many ways life is synonymous with place"
(Craig Dykers, founder of Snøhetta)

Regards,
R

1455. Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. Design for the Whitehall Ferry Terminal NYC

Dear Andrea,

"Visitors love to access New York from that ferry; just think of what they would have seen. From State Island the terminal facade would have resembled a small, bright postage stamp, and would have frown in size and detail as you approached" (Denise Scott Brown)

Best wishes,
R

1454. Rotterdam

Dear John,

"I am shaped by the crisis of the thirties and the constant fear of bankruptcy. Frugality, hard work, and business were important to me and have been shaped me as an architect."(Win Quist)

Sincerely,
R

PS. The office building featuring this postcard is the
Willemswerf, designed by Quist and completed in 1988.

1453. Nord LB Building. Hannover, Germany

Dear Peter,

"The geometric discipline became oppresive..."
(Günter Behnisch)

Best,
R

1452. Langwieser Viadukt. Eisenbahnbrücke, Chur-Arosa.

Dear Peter,

When built the Langwieser viaduct was the largest railway bridge in the world. It is still one of the most famous bridges in Switzerland and a structure of cultural relevance for this country.

Regards,
R

1451. Torino. Mostra delle Regioni: Veneto, 1961

Dear Marco,

The Pavilion of Venice at the Turin 1961 Mostra delle

Regioni had as its theme "The Sense of Color and the

Rule of Water" and you can see in the picture that

color and water were indeed the main forces in it.

Best,
R

1450. Sugar Bowl Lodge

Dear Gordon,

"Architecture is not a goal. It is the picture frame, not the picture" (William Wilson Wurster)

Regards,
R

1449. University College Library, Ibadan

Dear Scott,

"We were fated to make a new architecture out of our love for the place and our obedience to nature, and to make it with cement and steel, asbestos sheets. wood above the termite line, glass, paint and some stone later, and not much else". (Maxwell Fry)

Sincerely,
R

1448. Secretariat, Chandigarh

Dear Tim,

"All that remains is the dream, the dream of being free,
the dream of being master of one's destiny"
(Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals were white)

Regards,
R