Dear Jean,
"Radical architecture is only radical today when it
is also built. That is the difference between now and
then." (Wolf D. Prix)
Regards,
R
2069. Goetheanum
Dear Peter,
"Matter is never without spirit.
Spirit is never without matter."
(Rudolph Steiner)
Sincerely,
R
2068. Schützenhaus, Wien
Dear Osman,
"Modern forms should adapt to new materials
to meet contemporary needs." (Otto Wagner)
Sincerely,
R
2067. Detroit Plaza, Renaissance Center
Dear Sean,
"Buildings should serve people, not
the other way around." (John Portman)
Regards,
R
2066. Brasilia. Palácio da Justiça
Dear Walter,
"Surprise is key in all art." (Oscar Niemeyer)
Best,
R
2065. Malmö Stadsteatern, interior ev foyern
Dear Paloma,
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday
life" (Pablo Ruiz Picasso)
Sincerely,
R
2064. Sölvesborg. Tingshuset.
Dear Ken,
"It is better to have things of varied age in our environment, genuine old and genuine new,
which enrich our lives in the same ways as the
variation in age among people."
(Erik Gunnar Asplund)
Regards,
R
2063. Helsingborg, Konserthuset
Deak Ka,
"One cannot expect a building to comply with the
drawings before it is finished" (Sven Markelius)
Sincerely,
R
2062. Toronto Dominion Centre, Ontario
Dear Oscar,
"Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment,
it transcends into architecture"
(Mies van der Rohe)
Sincerely,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
2057. Goetheanum. Dornach, Switzerland
Dear Ingrid,
"Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner
being." (Rudolph Steiner)
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
2045. Kunsthaus, Wien
Dear Mary,
"The straight line leads to the
downfall of humanity"
(Friedensreich Hundertwasser)
Regards,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
2037. Tampereen Kaupunginkirjasto
Dear Sanna,
"My ideas move around like clouds over the
archipelago of the architectural ideas of
modernism" (Reima Pietilä)
Respectfully,
R
2036. Frankfurt a.M. Siedlung Praunheim
Dear Sybille,
"Housing is the organized implementation of living
habits" (Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky)
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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,
R
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