POSTALES INVENTADAS

1486. Otaniemi. Institute of Technology

Dear Timo,

"The very essence of architecture consists of a variety

and development reminiscent of natural organic life.

This is the only true style in architecture"

(Alvar Aalto)

Respectfully,
R

1485. Moscow. Club Soueff, Lesnaia Street

Dear Irina,

This eye-catching view of the Zuev's workers club was taken in the 1930s, soon after his inauguration.
Architect Golosov embraced expressionism and dynamism in his works and in this building he was so successful that it became almost immediately an icon of Soviet Constructivist architecture.

Regards,
R

1484. Dessau. Gropius-Siedlung. Bauhaus-Dessau-Törten

Dear Jan,

"Limitations makes the creative mind inventive"
(Walter Gropius)

Warm regards,
R

1483. Riga. Centralais Kolhozu tirgus

Dear Martin,

The largest market complex in Europe with more than
16,000 square meters is located in Riga, Latvia. Construction began in 1924 and ended in 1930. Since 1998 it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Regards,
R

1482. Plaza Tamayo, La Paz, Bolivia

Querido Juan,

Te mando una postal de la Plaza Tamayo en La Paz. El edificio alto es conocido como Monoblock y pertenece a la universidad. Se inauguró en 1947 y fue el primer "rascacielos" de la ciudad con sus 13 plantas. Es obra del famoso arquitecto boliviano Emilio Villanueva y aunque obra moderna tiene elementos estilísticos propios del art deco y del estilo local Tiwanaku.

Un abrazo,
R

1481. Halsingborg. St.Jorgens Plats med St.Jorgenfontanen

Dear Glenn,

Visiting beautiful Helsingborg in southern Sweden. This
is a view of a functionalist apartment building that although it seems to be new was built in 1936.

All the best,
R

1480. National Farmers Bank, Owatonna, Minn.

Dear Russell,

"Every building is like a person: single and unrepeatable"
(Louis H. Sullivan)

Regards,
R

1479. Sevilla Exposición Ibero Americana Pabellón de Chile.

Querido Manolo,

"El conjunto encuadrado en los jardines interpretará el
espiritu chileno, sin recurrir para ello a motivos coloniales, sino a agrupaciones de volúmenes y trozos de escultura y pintura capaces de sugerir el ambiente de un pueblo y de hacernos adivinar su cultura" (Juan Martínez Gutiérrez)

Un fuerte abrazo,
R

1478. Shukkhov tower, Russia

Dear Ken,

"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements are no longer their justification in nature" (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Cheers,
R

1477. Teatro Regio Torino, Italy

Dear Teresa,

"Myth is nothing new as a means to better understand the
moral of reality" (Carlo Mollino)

Regards,
R

1476. La Pobla de Lillet. Chalet-refugio Catllaràs

Querida Cristina,

Encontré ésta interesante postal del chalet refugio que
Gaudí construyó en la Pobla de Lillet en 1905 para su
conocido mecenas el empresario Güell.

Besos,
R

1475. Helsinki. Lentoasema. The aerodrome

Dear Helene

Today I arrived to Malmi airport in Helsinki, the oldest airport in Finland still in use. This wonderful building was opened in 1938 and its plan although in a undeniable functionalist style resembles also to a gigantic machine rotor.

Best,
R

1474. Aeropuerto Olaya Herrera, Medellin, Colombia

Querida Luisa,

"Se trataba de crear un lugar para estar; para que el grupo
familiar permaneciera de manera grata en el rito de despedida o bienvenida" (Mauricio Gaviría Restrepo- Arquitectura Moderna en Medellín 1947-1970)

Besos,
R

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.

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