POSTALES INVENTADAS

1554. Chapelle de Notre-Dame du Haut, Ronchamp

Dear Susan,

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies" (Le Corbusier)

Best,
R

1553. Copenhagen. The new Broadcasting House and the Concert Hall.

Dear Jorn,

"No life without aesthetics" (Vilhelm Lauritzen)

Regards,
R

1552. RCR architects. Creatividad Compartida

Querido Joaquin,

"Hay que tener raices y hay que tener alas" (Ramon Vilalta)

Paz,
R

1551. Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1904

Dear Alice,

"It's not use going back to yesterday, but I was a different
person then" (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

Best regards,
R

1550. Paimion Parantola

Dear Rafa,

"When I received the commission to design this

sanatorium I was ill myself and therefore I was able

to make a few experiments and find out what it is

really like to be ill" (Alvar Aalto)

R

1549. Madrid. Puerta del Sol

Dear Elena,

"La marquesina es como un caleisdoscopio urbano,

una suerte de faro que nunca se apaga, como

tampoco cesa la actividad en esta plaza"

(Antonio Fernandez Alba)

Recuerdos,
R

1548. Jean Prouve. Grenoble, France

Dear Jean,

The picture features a view of the architectural model for the hall for the Grenoble Fairgrounds. The girders are supported by columns that Prouve called "taburet" (stools).

Regards,
R

1547. Stockholm: Stadshuset Borgargarden

Mama,

He encontrado esta postal antigua del ayuntamiento de
Estocolmo. Fue escrita y enviada en 1931, solamente 12
años despues de haber sido inaugurado y 86 años antes
de que nosotros lo visitasemos.

Besos,
R

1546. Stockholm Stadsbiblioteket

Querido Juan,

"En la cultura egipcia el espacio se pensaba como

dirección e itinerario con pasajes que se reducen

a través de salas, patios y calles, en continua tensión

hacia la meta concluyente" (Erik Gunnar Asplund)

Un abrazo,
R

1545. La Maison Stoclet

Dear Alvaro,

"There are two types of artists: the ones who develop an
idea carefully, sensibly, and systematically, and the ones
who just hit on the right idea" (Josef Hoffmann)

Best,
R

1544. Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Dear Richard,

"The museum is conceived as a place to recover the

citizen's self-awareness, through its direct and constant

contact with Stockholm" (Rafael Moneo)

Regards,
R

1543. Einfamilienhaus in Hellerau

Dear Walter,

"The simplest form is not always the best, but
the best is always simple" (Heinrich Tessenow)

R

1542. Cadiz. Puente de la Constitucion de 1812

Pedro,

Dos columnas modernas para Hercules...

R

1541. Skogskapellet. The Woodland Chapel

Mama,

Gracias por venir conmigo a este maravilloso
pais. Fue como un sueño hecho realidad.

Besos,
R

1540. Finlandia-talo, Helsinki

Dear Timo,

"Form must have a content, and that content must

be linked with nature." (Alvar Aalto)

Best,
R

1539. Villa in Shaan, Liechtenstein

Dear Jan,

"He who wants to warm himself in old age must

build a fireplace in his youth"

(Liechstensteiners proverb)

Cheers,
R

1538. Aarhus. Raadhuset

Mamá,

Dinamarca será el destino de uno de nuestros próximos viajes.

R

1537. Seinäjoki. The Town Hall

Dear Elissa,

"It is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than

to build a personal house" (Alvar Aalto)

With appreciation,
R

1536. Chianciano-Terme

Dear Elizabeth,

"The difference between the poet and the mathematician
is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens

while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into

his head." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Regards,
R

1535. The Garden Grove Community Church. Garden Grove, CA

Dear Robert,

"I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to
themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience" (Richard Neutra)

Regards,
R

1534. Convent Dominicains La Tourette

Dear David,

"To create architecture is to put in order functions and
objects" (Le Corbusier)

Regards,
R

1533. The Gherkin Building, London, UK

Dear George,

"It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless"
(Norman Foster)

Respectfully,
R

1532. Madrid. Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo y Museo Thyssen.

Estimado Joaquín,

El antiguo Palacio de Villahermosa fue renovado y adaptado a museo por el importante arquitecto español Rafael Moneo. Cuando se terminó la obra Moneo declaró que su mayor habilidad había sido no hacerse ver mucho para que el museo fuese amable y no cansase al visitante.

Saludos cordiales,
R

1531. Milano, Nuova Sede Pirelli (in costruzione)

Querido Miguel Angel,

Esta maravillosa postal muestra la elegante Torre Pirelli en construcción. Este edificio fue el fruto del trabajo conjunto de dos grandes maestros como el ingeniero Nervi y el arquitecto y diseñador Ponti.

Un fuerte abrazo,
R

1530. Estadio del F.C. Barcelona. Maqueta

Querido Will,

"He sido un hombre muy dedicado a mi oficio y he dejado
que los clientes me contagiaran su entusiasmo y su ilusión"
(Francesc Mitjans)

Un abrazo,
R

1529. City National Bank, Mason City, Iowa

Dear Elizabeth, Lizbeth, and Arizbeth,

"A building is not just a place to be, but a way to be"
(Frank Lloyd Wright)

R

1528. The Atheneum, New Harmony

Querido Luís,

"A fuerza de construir bien, se llega a ser buen arquitecto"
(Aristóteles)

Saludos,
R

1527. Lappia Rovaniemi

Dear Mike,

A multiview of the Lappi Hall (Rovaniemi theater,
concert and congress hall). On the bottom right it is
possible to see the ceramic tiles used in some interior walls called "Halla" (Frozen) designed by Aalto and manufactured by Arabia.

Cheers,
R

1526. S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology

Dear John,

"The Crown Hall is almost nothing"
(Mies van der Rohe)

Best,
R

1525.Chiesa Nostra Signora del Cadore, Villagio ENI

Dear Paolo,

(...)
In the elements
the joint inspires ornament, its celebration.
The detail is the adoration of Nature.

(Louis I. Kahn,- In the work of Carlo Scarpa)

Regards,
R