POSTALES INVENTADAS

2063. Helsingborg, Konserthuset

Deak Ka,

"One cannot expect a building to comply with the

drawings before it is finished" (Sven Markelius)

Sincerely,

2062. Toronto Dominion Centre, Ontario

Dear Oscar,

"Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment,

it transcends into architecture"

(Mies van der Rohe)

Sincerely,

2061. The Salk Institute, San Diego, California

Dear Bob,

"Architecture appears for the first time when

the sunlight hits a wall" (Louis I. Kahn)

Sincerely,

2060. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Dear Frank,

"The simultaneous expression of conflicting forces

in a symbiotic manner is my style"(kisho Kurokawa)

Regards,

2059. Model of Grundtvigskirken

Querido Miguel Angel,

Esta magnífica maqueta de la iglesia de Grundtvig

en la periferia de Copenhagen fue mandada a

construir por su arquitecto Peder Vilhelm

Jensen-Klint. Su forma es producto de una mezcla

de estilos que incluye el medieval, el danés eclesiastico

tradicional y el expresionismo abstracto. El hijo de Klint,

Kaare Klint, también arquitecto, terminó de construir

esta majestuosa iglesia en 1940.

Un abrazo,

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,

2057. Goetheanum. Dornach, Switzerland

Dear Ingrid,

"Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner

being." (Rudolph Steiner)

2056. Sárospatak. A Művelődés Háza.

Dear Jonathan,

"My aim is to counteract the insensitive spell of

technical civilization using supersensitive imaginative

power" (Imre Makovecz)

Sincerely,

2055. Sven Markelius' Villa at Kevinge

Dear Eva,

This historic postcard regarding Sven Markelius'

own home at Kevinge was sent either by Mr. or

Mrs. Markelius as a Holidays greetings card.

This villa, built with prefabricated building

elements and the heating system, became highly associated to good craftsmanship, and sensible

and careful adjustments to the site. In all, it was

seen as the perfect example of the best Swedish

post-war empiricist architecture.

Gratefully,

2054. Sundh - Center, Avesta

Dear Andre,

"Our entire culture rests on the nature of our
dwellings."(Alvar Aalto)

Sincerely,
R

2053. Norsk Bremuseum Fjaerland

Dear Nuccio,

"The constructions made by animals are rationalistic.

They are precise and unchanged, the same every day

and every year. (...) If architecture is made completely

rational, people become animals." (Sverre Fehn)

Respectfully,

2052. Wien XX. Winarsky-Hof. Gemeindebau

Dear Oskar,

"Every human needs a certain degree of sentimentality

to feel free... What we need is variety and not

stereotyped monumentality." (Josef Frank)

Sincerely,

2051. Rudolf Steinerseminarlet, Järna, Biblioteket

Dear Susanne,

"Architecture should be felt by all the senses at the

same time, and why not with a sense of humor too"

(Erik Asmussen)

Gratefully,

2050. Millénniumi Templom, Csíkszereda

Dear Attila,

"My buildings do not come from me. They come from the

landscape, from the local environment, and from the

ancient human spirit." (Imre Makovecz)

Respectfully,

2049. Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem. Iosephinum Vocational College. Piliscsabai, Hungary

Dear Rem,

"My architecture is humanized architecture, it is

focused on man. (...) The human face is an imaginary

geography" (Emro Makovecz)

Sincerely,

2048. Karl Johansskolan, Göteborg

Dear Hakon,

"Architects keep stubbornly to the old materials,

compromise, give way, apply facings of those old

materials to new constructions and thus place

before the public the principle of truth"

(Erik Gunnar Asplund)

Sincerely,

2047. Jyväskylä Defense Corps Building

Querida Cristina,

En esta vieja postal se puede ver a la derecha de

la imagen y pasado los dos edificios más bajos,

el Cuartel General de la Guardia Civil Finesa

(Defense Corps). Esta es una importante obra

temprana de Alvar Aalto que proyectó con solo

28 años. El edificio responde en su estilo a una

transición del Clasicismo Nórdico al Funcionalismo

que ya empezaba a dominar en los primeros años

de la década de 1930.

Muchos besos,

2046. St. Mary's Cathedral. Tokyo

Dear Koji,

"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in

a creation, but it can not longer be creative

itself" (Kenzo Tange)

Sincerely,

2045. Kunsthaus, Wien

Dear Mary,

"The straight line leads to the

downfall of humanity"

(Friedensreich Hundertwasser)

Regards,

2044. Grosse Pointe Public Library, Michigan

Dear John,

"I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in

the whole structure" (Marcel Breuer)

Best,

2043. Galeria de Cristal. Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid

Querida Inés,

Espero que estés bien. Gracias por nuestro feliz

encuentro y nuestra exposición en el COAM.

Gracias también por pasar conmigo en nuestro

camino a la COPE y hablarme de este hermoso

espacio acristalado en pleno centro de Madrid.

Cuidate mucho,

2042. Lounge at The Sea Ranch Lodge.

Dear Joseph,

"Living lightly on the land" (MLTW)

Sincerely,

2041. Otaniemi. Urheiluhalli

Dear Julia,

The Otaniemi gymnasium was built by the Aaltos

for the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

"Humans belong to nature as much as pines and

birches do. That is where the scale comes from"

(Alvar Aalto)

Sincerely,

2040. Ljubljana Žale

Dear Edvard,

The Žale Cemetery located near to Ljubljana is one

of the most beautiful cemeteries in Europe.

It was designed and built by famed Slovenian

architect Jože Plečnik in the early1940s. It is the

final resting place of many people including its

architect.

Sincerely,

2039. Arese. Alfa Romeo

Dear Lea,

"I have always believed that there was more to

architecture, something difficult to achieve with

rationalism" (Ignazio Gardella)

Cheers,

2038. Universidad Laboral de Almería, España

Dear Manuel,

"The inescapable law of gravity makes things continue

to fall at right angles to the flat ground on which we

human beings stand, live, and try to be happy"

(Alberto Campo Baeza)

Sincerely,

2037. Tampereen Kaupunginkirjasto

Dear Sanna,

"My ideas move around like clouds over the

archipelago of the architectural ideas of

modernism" (Reima Pietilä)

Respectfully,

2036. Frankfurt a.M. Siedlung Praunheim

Dear Sybille,

"Housing is the organized implementation of living

habits" (Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky)

2035. The Oceanic, Mombasa

Dear André,

The Oceanic Hotel in Mombasa was a remarkable

example of the "tropical modernism" in Africa.

It was built by German architect and urban planner

Ernst May and demolished in 2000.

Best,

2034. Sölvesborg. Tingshuset och Folkskolan.

Dear Norman,

"Remember one thing, the simple can never be really

ugly, only the awkward can do that"

(Erik Gunnar Asplund)

Sincerely,

2033. Metro Bilbao

Dear Txema,

"The ability to master physical communication

– the ease with which people can move freely and

in a civilized manner – is essential to the future of

our cities; and the architecture of this kind of

infrastructure is critical to urban development."

(Norman Foster)

Regards,

2032. Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie

Querida Sybille,

"The glass façade, consisting in part of curved

panels, some of them carved open, transforms

the new building, perched on top of the old one,

into a gigantic, iridescent crystal, whose appearance

keeps changing as it catches the reflections of the

sky, the water and the city."

(Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron)

Besos,

2031. Hotel Camino Real, Polanco, Mexico D.F. La Entrada.

Querido Walter,

"Un edificio tiene que tener una razón emocional para

existir" (Ricardo Legorreta)

Un abrazo,

2030. Sibeliustalo, Lahti, Finland

Dear Timo,

'Finnish architecture is always about roots but at

the same time it should be modern and give a

feeling of modernity" (Kimmo Lintula)

Sincerely,

2029. Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou

Dear Renzo,

"Architecture is a living thing. If I

want to leave something to the future,

it has to be able to change, but retain

something of the ethos that we built

up over 50 years." (Richard Rogers)

Sincerely,

2028. Fire Station #4, Columbus, Indiana

Dear Carme,

"Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective" (Robert Venturi)

Sincerely,

2027. Villa Tugendhat, Brno, Czechia

Dear Rick,

"Architecture the will of an epoch translated into

space" (Mies van der Rohe)

Regards,

2026. Pabellón de los Hexágonos. Casa de Campo, Madrid

Querido Juan,

"Nosotros éramos heterodoxos, se hablaba de las dos

tendencias: la influencia de los nórdicos en Fisac y el

grupo de seguidores de Mies; Oiza, Romany…

Wright tenía bastante influencia en Ramón, le

impresionó mucho la gran exposición en Italia.

Ramón siempre hablaba de ello… Yo nunca he querido

ser erudito, me reía de ellos". [J.A. Corrales]

Abrazos,

2025. Le Halles Centrales de Reims

Dear David,

A beautiful contemporary picture postcard of the

impressive Boulingrin Halls interior space. Luckily

the building was saved and beautifully restored in

2012 after many years of decay.

Best regards,

2024. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Robert,

"I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material

as spent Light. What is made by Light cast a shadow,

and the shadow belongs to Light" (Louis I. Kahn)

Best regards,

2023. Paris. La tour Eiffel

Dear David,

"Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in

keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony?"

(Gustave Eiffel)

Cheers,

2022. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City

Dear Elisa,

"Our works of architecture are

generally open in character

because we want to build

relationships. People meet in

architecture"

(Kazuyo Sejima)

Sincerely,

2021. Museo Nacional del Prado

Querida Patricia,

"Entender la ciudad como resultado de un proceso

evolutivo de un ser diverso ayuda a pensar que toda

intervención y edificio no es un elemento autónomo

sino uno que debe integrarse en ella" (Rafael Moneo)

Abrazos,

2020. Forum 3, Novartis Campus, Basel

Dear Peter,

"The façade, designed by Helmut Federle,

transposes the overlay structure characteristic

of his paintings and drawings and introduces

it to the architectural dimension.

Additionally, the color variety calls to mind

the company’s origins in Basel, where it

began with the production of dyes.

In the end, the play between the panes of

colored glass reflects the endless processes

associated with the ongoing research pursued

at this location and forms a relationship with

the diverse, near limitless web of work, creative

energies, and encounters.” (Roger Diener)

Sincerely,