POSTALES INVENTADAS

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

1447. Guggenheim Bilbao. Detalle del atrio

Dear Arantxa,

"One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian
Lorenzo Bernini." (Frank Gehry)

Regards,
R

1446. San Remo, Monastere St. Elie

Querida Paola,

"El material más resistente en la construcción es el arte"
(Gio Ponti)

Besos,
R

1445. Eduardo Souto Moura

Querido Manolo,

"El problema actual de la arquitectura consiste en

no tener ninguna limitación, en poder hacer todo

lo que se quiera" (Eduardo Souta de Moura)

Abrazos,
R

PS. Croquis para la Burgo Tower, Oporto.

1444. Lotus-shaped Gandhi Bhawan, Chandigarh

Dear Charles,

"Convenience, subsistence, these are not solutions...
We should have struggled for the conditions of civilization"
(Pierre Jeanneret)

Respectful,
R

1443. Cruz y Ortiz. Museo ICO

Querida Olga,

"No planificamos un libro de estilo. Nuestro trabajo

sale del cine y la literatura que nos gusta. Todo comparte unos valores asentados por el tiempo. Nos interesa los creadores que hablan de sus propias experiencias con mucha independencia" (Antonio Cruz)

Un abrazo,
R

1442. Aarhus Byraadssalen paa Raadhuset

Dear Louis,

"The fundamental factor in architecture is proportion.
Proportion is precisely what makes the old Greek temples
beautiful" (Arne Jacobsen)

Sincerely,
R

1441. Rest Home of Mivtahim. Zichron Yaaqov.

Dear David,

The jury members of the Israel Award declared that

this building provided a rare example of an architecture that synthesizes the earth and the sky.

Peace,
R

1440. Casa d'abitazione Novo Comum, Como.

Dear Jan,

"Modernism took art and culture by the scruff of the neck
and revolutionized the built environment."
(Dennis Sharp)

Warm regards,
R

1439. Peter Stuyvesant School. The Netherlands Antilles.

Dear Jo,

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars"
(Martin Luther King Jr.)

Regards,
R

1438. Mäntyniemi, Helsinki, Finland

Dear Osmo,

"My ideas do not progress: they move around like clouds over the archipelago of the architectural ideas of modernism." (Reima Pietilä)

Best,
R

1437. Falkoping, Centralstationen

Dear Erik,

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"
(Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

Best,
R

1436. Amsterdam. Amstelstation

Dear Teresa,

"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a
building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intelectual
one" (Helmut Jahn)

Best regards,
R

1435. Academy of Science Building, Canberra, Australia

Querida Luisa,

"Tiende la belleza a la esfericidad"
(María Zambrano- Claros del bosque)

Besos,
R

1434. Torremolinos. Hotel Pez Espada

Querido Alfredo,

"Málaga nos mira por el ojo egipcio de sus jábegas."
(Jean Cocteau)

...y gracias por tu interesante novela.

Saludos cordiales,
R

1433. Hotel DU LAC. Tunis

Dear Louis,

This hotel building is been said to serve as the inspiration for the sandcrawlers used by the jawas in the movie Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope that largely took place in Tunisia. Nonetheless, the architect of this building, that it is now under threat of demolition, was inspired by the Italian Pavilion at the 1954 Zagreb Fair.

Love,
R