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<title><![CDATA[Móveis Especiais - Le Corbusier]]></title>
<link>http://casad.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/moveis-especiais-le-corbusier/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Manu &amp; Teddy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Le Corbusier nasceu na Suíça em 1887 e foi um arquiteto e urbanista  de grande expressão, posteriorm]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Le Corbusier nasceu na Suíça em 1887 e foi um arquiteto e urbanista  de grande expressão, posteriormente se naturalizando francês. Ele foi o criador dos &#8220;5 pontos da nova arquitetura&#8221;:</p>
<p>1 &#8211; Pilotis, que tem uma função estrutural.</p>
<p>2 &#8211; Plantas livres, onde as paredes não tenham uma função estrutural.</p>
<p>3 &#8211; Fachadas livres, também não tendo uma participação na estrutura do edifício.</p>
<p>4 &#8211; Janelas em banda, possíveis pela liberdade das fachadas.</p>
<p>5 &#8211; Terraço-jardim, que recupera o verde perdido na ocupação da construção.</p>
<p>No Brasil, Lúcio Costa e Oscar Niemeyer são exemplos de terem usado integralmente os cinco pontos de Le Corbusier no projeto do edifício do Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Seu mobiliário sempre apresenta o uso de aço tubular e um equilíbrio fantástico entre forma e função.</p>
<div id="attachment_60" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://casad.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/chaise-longue.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-60" title="chaise longue" src="http://casad.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/chaise-longue.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="255" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Chaise lounge preta, toda regulável...</p></div>
<div id="attachment_61" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://casad.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/chaise-lounge-vaca.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-61" title="Chaise-Lounge vaca" src="http://casad.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/chaise-lounge-vaca.jpg?w=300" alt="... e com uma estampa super moderna." width="300" height="229" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">... e com uma estampa super moderna.</p></div>
<p>Ele desenhou também uma linha de poltronas e sofás muito conhecida, utilizando de novo o aço tubular.</p>
<div id="attachment_62" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://casad.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/poltronas-le-corbusier.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-62" title="poltronas le corbusier" src="http://casad.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/poltronas-le-corbusier.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="179" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Linha completa</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Réouverture aprés travaux : Fondation Le Corbu ]]></title>
<link>http://fponsolle.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/fondation-le-corbu/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fponsolle</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fponsolle.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/fondation-le-corbu/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fondation Le Corbusier - Square du Docteur Blanche Ah, enfin, moi qui chaque fois que je veux y alle]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fondation Le Corbusier - Square du Docteur Blanche Ah, enfin, moi qui chaque fois que je veux y alle]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[.:: Per un immaginario architettonico_]]></title>
<link>http://piliaemmanuele.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/per-un-immaginario-architettonico_/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>emmanuelepilia</dc:creator>
<guid>http://piliaemmanuele.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/per-un-immaginario-architettonico_/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nel 1972, all&#8217;interno del suo Storia dell&#8217;architettura e dell&#8217;urbanistica moderne,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://piliaemmanuele.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pruitt-igoe_collapse-series.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-609" title="Pruitt-igoe_collapse-series" src="http://piliaemmanuele.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/pruitt-igoe_collapse-series.jpg" alt="" width="510" height="1283" /></a></p>
<p>Nel 1972, all&#8217;interno del suo <em>Storia dell&#8217;architettura e dell&#8217;urbanistica moderne</em>, in Italia edito da <em>Editori Riuniti </em>già due anni dopo, Michel Ragon compie un gesto teorico estremo per l&#8217;epoca: inserire all&#8217;interno di una storia dell&#8217;architettura sul contemporaneo un capitolo intitolato <em>Architettura e futurologia</em>. Da sempre relegata nei settori della letteratura di serie B, dalla fantascienza all&#8217;ucronia, il genere della futurologia, che a dispetto del nome è tutt&#8217;altro che una scienza, aveva in realtà già da tempo fatto capolino all&#8217;interno dell&#8217;architettura <em>parlata</em>. Dopotutto, il 1972 è un anno chiave per l&#8217;architettura contemporanea: l&#8217;abbattimento del complesso di Pruitt-Igoe voluto dagli stessi abitanti, opera dell&#8217;architetto Yamasaki Minoru, lo stesso autore delle torri gemelle per intenderci, segna la fine di un modo di pensare l&#8217;architettura legata ad una distorsione delle utopie funzionaliste. Un&#8217;architettura ormai asservita all&#8217;industria, nella quale quindi l&#8217;uomo non  è altro che un orpello. L&#8217;attuale paradosso della crisi dell&#8217;alloggio non è infatti una novità: nonostante vi siano per nazione milioni e milioni di vani inutilizzati, e destinati quindi ad una veloce dismissione da usura, e nonostante si continui a costruire, spinti da un consumismo galoppante sordo a qualsiasi tipo di minaccia, persio quella della propria entropia, nonostante ciò, continua a persistere una condizione per la quale milioni di persone non possono accedere ad alloggi, a causa di una manomissione del mercato, e quindi ad una limitazione fasulla dell&#8217;offerta. Del resto, l&#8217;intera storia dell&#8217;architettura di Michel Ragon, non è altro che un sentiero dal quale si scorge un progressivo allontanamento dell&#8217;architetto dalla sua gente. E questo a discapito dell&#8217;aspetto urbano, sempre più abbruttito dalle astrazioni di sognatori raggirati dal potere dell&#8217;emergente borghesia. Stiamo parlando ovviamente del passaggio dalla prima alla seconda rivoluzione industriale, di cui Charles Dickens ha ampiamente parlato,  e di cui Ragon dedica gran parte del suo primo volume. Scorrendo le pagine di questo, è facile notare come l&#8217;autore ponga spesso l&#8217;accento su un fatto: gli uomini che hanno cercato di risolvere questa condizione, non sempre sono stati architetti, ma anzi, spesso burocrati, sociologi, semplici pensatori, come per l&#8217;appunto Dickens. Dopotutto, lo stesso Michel Ragon non è un architetto, ma anzi un osservatore privilegiato dei fatti dell&#8217;architettura. Osservatore che però non esitò a sporcarsi le mani: egli fu infatti il fondatore del GROUP UTOPIE a Parigi nel 1967, gruppo di cui architetti come Yona Friedman, Costant e Claude Parent, e che già nel 1963 pubblica testi come <em>Où vivrons nous demain?</em> e nel 1966 <em>Les Cités de l&#8217;avenir</em>, contributi fondativi se si volesse tracciare un&#8217;ipotetica <em>storia delle utopie in architettura</em>. Storia delle utopie di cui il testo di Ragon rappresenta una lucidissima anteprima, strumento indispensabile di chi in futuro vorrà prendere in mano questa sfida. Senza condividere tutte le ipotesi degli sperimentatori avveniristi di ogni età, tenendo sempre a mente che alcune utopie conducono verso l&#8217;ingenua idolatria della macchina, o peggio ancora verso la tirannia, è possibile accorgersi come le reali utopie <em>perfettamente realizzabili</em>, siano proprio quelle auspicabili proiezioni dell&#8217;immaginario. La <em>futurologia </em>citata da Ragon quindi va a costituire un mondo aperto a tutte le possibilità, velate da una continua autocritica: <em>&#8220;Contrariamente a quelle del passato, le </em>utopie<em> del presente sono quasi tutte immediatamente realizzabili; e solo la nostra </em>società bloccata<em> ne impedisce la realizzazione&#8221;</em>. Tesi degna di chi, affascinato dalle tesi di una società post-macchinista, sa bene che è la ricerca che genera nuova ricerca, e che grazie ad improvvisi passi da gigante della stessa ricerca, l&#8217;architettura e l&#8217;urbanistica non può che fare piccoli passi.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[|Design the Time|]]></title>
<link>http://laltrastanza.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/design-the-time/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>laltrastanza</dc:creator>
<guid>http://laltrastanza.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/design-the-time/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What was thought for eternity, has been overcome by time What was done for the temporany, has been c]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/366155895_dc901a6c99.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="286" /><br />
What was thought for eternity, has been overcome by time</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.archimagazine.com/dmodoitaliano1.jpg" alt="" width="500" /><br />
What was done for the temporany, has been changed and fed by time</p>
<p>Design should dialogue with time, and remember the basic rules that can give birth to the &#8220;anonymous objects&#8221; analyzed by Munari.<br />
Objects are transitory materialisations of people momentary needs and actions.<br />
With time, they become images of a world that exists nomore, but that still lies in our memories, in what we saw, read and learnt.<br />
And if needs and actions didn&#8217;t change, like put wine in a bottle or light up our garages, these objects have the change to become archetypes.</p>
<p>Time can grant eternity to objects, design has to seed its projects with this potential opportunity.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Modern klasszikusok..]]></title>
<link>http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/modern-klasszikusok/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Emese</dc:creator>
<guid>http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/modern-klasszikusok/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Most bemutatnék néhány olyan bútor klasszikust, melyek teljesen lenyűgöznek. Egytől egyig olyan embe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#339966;">Most bemutatnék néhány olyan bútor klasszikust, melyek teljesen lenyűgöznek. Egytől egyig olyan emberek munkái ezek, akik &#8220;történelmet&#8221; alkottak , izgalmat, luxus érzetet keltve tárgyaikkal. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;">Néhány név, a képek előtt:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;">Eero Arnio, Arne Jacobsen, Philippe Starck, Ludwig Mies V. D. Rohe, Ray and Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, és nem utolsó sorban a magyar származású Breuer Marcel </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;">Róluk és másokról olvashatsz pl. itt:    <a href="http://modernclassics.hu"> www.modernclassics.hu</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#339966;">De ha Debrecenben jársz, feltétlenül térj be ide:   <a href="http://artibus.hu/hu/a_galeria">MEGNÉZEM</a></span></p>

<p>És nézzük milyen mikor elhelyezzük ezeket egy egy térben:</p>
<p><a href="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/egg-chair.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-736" title="egg-chair" src="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/egg-chair.jpg" alt="" width="230" height="280" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/eames_alumn_group_designwithin-reach.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-737" title="eames_alumn_group_designwithin reach" src="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/eames_alumn_group_designwithin-reach.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="288" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/eero-saarinen-womb-chair-6.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-738" title="Eero-Saarinen-Womb-Chair-6" src="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/eero-saarinen-womb-chair-6.jpg" alt="" width="362" height="259" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/eero-aarnio-hanging-bubble-chair-modern-furniture.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-739" title="EERO AARNIO HANGING BUBBLE CHAIR MODERN FURNITURE" src="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/eero-aarnio-hanging-bubble-chair-modern-furniture.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="282" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/elegant-contemporary-arne-jacobsen-swan-chairs.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-740" title="elegant-contemporary-arne-jacobsen-swan-chairs" src="http://pozitivan.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/elegant-contemporary-arne-jacobsen-swan-chairs.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="255" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[[ tur de apartament + Le Corbusier ]]]]></title>
<link>http://decorabilitate.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/tur-de-apartament-le-corbusier/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>decor...abilitate</dc:creator>
<guid>http://decorabilitate.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/tur-de-apartament-le-corbusier/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Blocul din imagine este opera lui Le Corbusier &#8230; cine este la Arhitectura &#8230; stie ca aces]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#888888;">Blocul din imagine este opera lui Le Corbusier &#8230; cine este la Arhitectura &#8230; stie ca acest nume este cumva sfant intre cunostintele de baza ale arhitectului de astazi. in imaginea de mai jos avem <a href="http://images.google.ro/imgres?imgurl=http://accom.anu.edu.au/UAS/2155/version/live/part/ImageData/data/Artist%2520Impression.JPG&#38;imgrefurl=http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/labels/modular%2520building.html&#38;usg=__sZLpsqYOKhZ1p34dc9Y5s0TnTh0=&#38;h=273&#38;w=410&#38;sz=27&#38;hl=ro&#38;start=17&#38;um=1&#38;tbnid=BbhyCskAcTLOgM:&#38;tbnh=83&#38;tbnw=125&#38;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dle%2Bcorbusier%2Bbuilding%2Bof%2Bflats%26hl%3Dro%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1" target="_self">Unite d&#8217;Habitacion</a> si reprezinta un concept de locuire &#8230; hai s aii zicem : un bloc de locuinte/ de apartamente &#8230; care in afara de functiunea de locuire cu 337 apartamente &#8230; mai are si alte cateva functiuni ca un hotel, magazine, scoala, sala de sport si o piscina. cu alte cuvinte un mini orasel in acelasi loc. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#888888;">apartamentul din imagini apartiune unui decorator &#8230; care a ales sa isi vopseasca peretii o culoare inchisa &#8230; care creaza un contrast aproape dramatic cu restul casei si lumina. estetica acestui spatiu se doreste a aduce , in mod poetic, un omagiu arhitectului, lui Le Corbusier &#8230; si cumva, cred ca reuseste!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#888888;">interiorul mi se pare deosibit de ingenios aranjat &#8230;  si pare sa se foloseasca de tot spatiul existent, fara sa fie banal &#8230;</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#888888;">mi se pare interesant &#8230; ca dupa multi ani de la realizarea acestui tip de proiecte, ele fiind mai multe : Nantes-RezéBerlin 1957, Briey 1963 si Firminy 1965, si dupa ce au existat cateva probleme de ordin social, semnalate de-a lungul timpului (lipsa de socializare fata de restul orasului, oamenii aveau tendinta sa stea numai in aceasta zona) &#8230; care au dus la incetarea proiectului &#8230; vad, in prezent nenumarate astfel de proiecte rezidentiale, cu acelasi concept: acela de a reuni functiunile necesare traiului decent, toate cele mentionate mai sus, intr-un singur loc. mi se pare un pic bizara revenirea asta. poate nu ma inteles eu tocmai bine &#8230; se poate!</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Thank You Paul Goldberger!]]></title>
<link>http://exploringvenustas.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/thank-you-paul-goldberger/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>AGB</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Being a tour guide at Trinity Church has its many perks. However, becoming one is a grueling and ard]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Being a tour guide at Trinity Church has its many perks. However, becoming one is a grueling and arduous, but intellectually rewarding journey.  Trinity’s docent undergo a 10 week training course during which one is expected to master the art and architectural history of one of America’s most beloved buildings. Surrounded by H.H. Richardson’s massive Romanesque interior, John Lafarge’s awe inspiring murals, and some of the country’s finest stained glass windows, one of my life long dreams came true on Wednesday November 18, 2009.</p>
<p>Pulitzer Prize winning critic <a href="http://www.paulgoldberger.com/">Paul Goldberger</a>, former <a href="http://www.paulgoldberger.com/articles">architectural critic</a> for The New York Times and author of several books including <em>On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age</em> and the latest <em>Why Architecture Matters</em> elated (at least I was ecstatic) an audience over 100 people with a lecture titled <em>Architecture, Spirituality and the Challenge of Modernism</em>. Goldberger spoke of the sacred and how it relates to modern architecture and relied on Trinity Church several times  as an example of a building that is “fresh and vibrant [which] transcends our normal sense of time.”</p>
<p>According to Goldberger, architecture must express what is not material, that is, the idea of God. This must be achieved by using the physical to express the transcending. At Trinity Church, Richardson was able to create a work of art by inventing new ways for buildings to inspire and move us. It is a space where time loses its fleeting momentum and grounds each and every one of us who experience its seductive and sumptuous interior.  What architecture has done is to establish a connection between everyday life and the sacred.  Who are we to say that Saarinen’s 1954 Kresge Chapel at MIT, or <a href="http://www.msafdie.com/php/print_project.php?id=40">Safdie’s Class of 1959 Chapel at Harvard Business School </a>or Le Corbusier’s <a href="http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Notre_Dame_du_Haut.html">Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp</a> are not sacred places? In the end, what makes a space sacred depends on who is feeling the experience. The same way we all experience a building, we can also be moved by it in different ways.</p>
<p>As to the challenges of modernism? Aesthetics have become indistinguishable from the sacred and as an example; Goldberger spoke of <a href="http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Kimbell_Museum.html">Kahn’s Kimball Art Museum</a> in Fort Worth, Texas as a model of how art institutions have become the emblems of cultural aspirations. These institutions have chosen to attract the beautiful rather than the divine (to illustrate this point, Goldberger questioned whether the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is considered a sacred place, to Mrs. Gardner it may have been, to others, it may just be another museum).</p>
<p>As a student and a professional, I have been delighted to meet and take classes with well respected scholars in the field of art and architectural history. Having attended this inspiring lecture by Paul Goldberger was not only a dream come true, but it gave me a reason to continue writing, learning and being a critic. Thank you Paul!</p>
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<link>http://jesarqit.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/futuro-primitivo/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Me resulta llamativo sean los arquitectos japoneses quienes hayan reflexionado de una forma más clar]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Me resulta llamativo sean los arquitectos japoneses quienes hayan reflexionado de una forma más clara sobre algunos principios del movimiento moderno. Como ocurre con los proyectos propios, son los terceros, amigos o desconocidos, quienes son más capaces de emitir un juicio objetivo sobre un trabajo. La distancia entre occidente y oriente probablemente ha propiciado que arquitectos como Toyo Ito transformen el sistema dominó en una mediateca donde los pilares han evolucionado para convertirse en redes de comunicación vertical llenas de luz y las losas sean enormes disquetes con instalaciones. Kazuyo Sejima ha llevado el sistema hasta los extremos de su propio ser, la desaparición de la estructura. Ahora es <a title="http://www.sou-fujimoto.com/" href="http://www.sou-fujimoto.com/" target="_blank">sou fujimoto</a> quien vuelve a tomar el mismo sistema para situarse, ni en frente ni a continuación, sino al margen. Su <em>futuro primitivo</em> huye de &#8220;ese <em>nido</em> bien preparado y funcional para construir una <em>cueva</em> como espacio crudo que la gente necesita explorar y en la que encontrar su propio lugar. Esta situación donde las personas pueden usar el espacio de una forma creativa.&#8221;</p>
<h6><span style="color:#333333;">extracto traducido de la entrevista a sou fujimoto via [</span><a title="http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sou_fujimoto.html" href="http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/sou_fujimoto.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#339966;">designboom</span></a><span style="color:#333333;">]</span></h6>
<p><a href="http://www.iwan.com/photo_Sou_Fujimoto_House_H_Tokyo.php"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4198" title="futuro primitivo1" src="http://jesarqit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/futuro-primitivo1.jpg" alt="futuro primitivo1" width="500" height="250" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.iwan.com/photo_Sou_Fujimoto_House_H_Tokyo.php"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4199" title="futuro primitivo2" src="http://jesarqit.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/futuro-primitivo2.jpg" alt="futuro primitivo2" width="500" height="250" /></a></p>
<p>fotos de la casa H [<a title="http://www.iwan.com/photo_Sou_Fujimoto_House_H_Tokyo.php" href="http://www.iwan.com/photo_Sou_Fujimoto_House_H_Tokyo.php" target="_blank">iwan baan</a>] via [<a title="http://www.dezain.net/en/2009/2131" href="http://www.dezain.net/en/2009/2131" target="_blank">dezain</a>]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Le Corbusier en Estambul, 1911]]></title>
<link>http://ultramarinos.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/le-corbusier-en-estambul-1911/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mezquita de Süleymaniye, Estambul. Verano de 1911. Dibujo de Le Corbusier. En la primavera de 1911, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_487" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-487" title="Fuente: LE CORBUSIER LE GRAND, pag. 55" src="http://ultramarinos.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/corbusier-le-grand-pg055-i02-500px-despeckle.jpg" alt="Mezquita de Süleymaniye, Estambul. Verano de 1911. Dibujo de Le Corbusier." width="500" height="313" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Mezquita de Süleymaniye, Estambul. Verano de 1911. Dibujo de Le Corbusier. </p></div>
<p>En la primavera de 1911, habiendo abandonado la oficina de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Behrens">Behrens</a>, Jeanneret emprendió junto con su amigo August Klipstein un viaje de seis meses a través de los Balcanes a Turquía, Grecia e Italia. Jeanneret registrará las impresiones de su encuentro con construcciones que van desde la arquitectura vernácula en Rumanía a la gran <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita_de_S%C3%BCleymaniye">Mezquita de Süleymaniye</a> en Estambul en los numerosos apuntes que tomó durante su viaje, un método de estudio que a partir de entonces emplearía a lo largo de toda su vida.[<a href="#1">1</a>]</p>
<div id="attachment_492" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-492" title="Fuente: LE CORBUSIER LE GRAND, pag. 54" src="http://ultramarinos.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/corbusier-le-grand-pg054-i01-500px-despeckle.jpg" alt="La Mezquita Azul o Mezquita del Sultán Ahmed fotografiada por Le Corbusier durante el verano de 1911. En el pie de foto del libro la identifica erróneamente como la de Süleymaniye." width="500" height="377" /><p class="wp-caption-text">La Mezquita Azul o Mezquita del Sultán Ahmed fotografiada por Le Corbusier durante el verano de 1911. En el pie de foto del libro la identifica erróneamente como la de Süleymaniye.</p></div>
<p>El viaje tendrá una duración de cinco meses y ocho días.</p>
<p>En él recorre los Balcanes pasando por Berlín, Dresde, Praga, Viena, Vacz, Budapest, Baja, Giorgovo, Belgrado, Knajevaz, Naitscha, Bucarest, Tirnovo, Galvoro, Schipka, Kasanlic, Andrinopla, Rodosto, Estambul, Dafné, Brousse, el monte Athos, Salónica, Atenas, Itea, Delfos y Patrás, regresando por Italia, Brindisi, Nápoles, Pompeya, Roma, Florencia y Lucerna. El viaje es puntualmente relatado por el joven Jeanneret a través de las cartas que envía a sus amigos de los Ateliers y que publica regularmente en la publicación <em>La feuille d’avis</em> de La Chaux−de−Fonds. Estas cartas fueron releídas por Le Corbusier poco antes de su muerte, el 17 de julio de 1965, y publicadas con el título de <em>Le voyage d’Orient</em>.[<a href="#2">2</a>]</p>
<div id="attachment_503" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-503" title="Fuente: LE CORBUSIER LE GRAND, pag. 55" src="http://ultramarinos.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/corbusier-le-grand-pg055-i01-500px-despeckle.jpg" alt="El Serrallo visto desde el Bósforo. Estambul." width="500" height="400" /><p class="wp-caption-text">El Serrallo visto desde el Bósforo, Estambul. Verano de 1911. Dibujo de Le Corbusier.</p></div>
<blockquote><p>Pera, Estambul, Escutari: una trinidad [<a href="#3">3</a>]. Me gusta esta palabra, porque tiene algo de sagrada.</p>
<p>Bebíamos lentamente el <em>mástic</em> el padre Bonnal y yo, en nuestro balcón de Ainali-Tchechmé, él, antes de su tardía cena, yo, después de comer en Estambul y haber atravesado otra vez el puente. Desde nuestro mirador, más allá de la caída de los cipreses de los Pequeños Campos, se veía el Cuerno de Oro. Ahí debajo se posa Estambul, una ancha barra de sombra que perfila sobre el apagado cielo las siluetas de las grandes mezquitas. Cuando hay luna -la tuvimos a veces- el mar, que se divisa más allá, enlaza con un hilo chorreante los minaretes con los minaretes a lo largo de la tenebrosa cima.</p>
<p>Había caído la noche. Mis sentidos se me escapaban un poco. ¿Soy yo el que sueña, o mi narrador llevado de su fantasía? Su voz rugiente pronuncia guturalmente la r. Sus gruesos ojos de absenta bajo unas formidables cejas grises se anegan de agua y brillan. Es amarillo y chorrea oro. ¡Están todos los mármoles de todos los palacios de Bizancio y todos los tesoros de los sultanes y todas las gemas de los serrallos! (<em>El viaje de Oriente</em>, 1911) [<a href="#4">4</a>]</p></blockquote>
<p>Durante el viaje descubrirá una realidad arquitectónica distinta y alejada de las filigranas del norte de Europa, también observará la naturalidad de los utensilios que surgen de las manos de alfareros y tejedores y que, a sus ojos, colocan la discusión sobre las artes decorativas en Europa en un plano insignificante. Pero el mismo viaje es también el encuentro con el Mediterráneo y con su intensa luz, calidades que puede apreciar desde Estambul hasta la Acrópolis de Atenas con sus elementales y limpios volúmenes bajo la luz.[<a href="#5">5</a>]</p>
<div id="attachment_507" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-507" title="Fuente: LE CORBUSIER LE GRAND, pag. 55" src="http://ultramarinos.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/corbusier-le-grand-pg055-i03-500px-despeckle.jpg" alt="Vista del caravasar de Edirne, Turquía." width="500" height="363" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Vista de la entrada del caravasar de Edirne, Turquía. Junio de 1911. Dibujo de Le Corbusier. En la esquina anota: <em>solución de las escaleras</em>.</p></div>
<p><span style="color:#333333;"><strong>NOTAS</strong>:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">[<a name="1">1</a>]PHAIDON, eds., <em>Le Corbusier Le Grand</em> (Londres: 2008, Phaidon), 54. <em>(Traducción libre del autor)</em>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;"><strong>Texto original en inglés</strong>:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>In the spring of 1911, having left Behrens&#8217;s office, Jeanneret embarked with his friend August Klipstein on a six-month journey through the Balkans to Turkey, Greece, and Italy. Encountering structures ranging from vernacular architecture in Romania to the great Süleyman Mosque in Istanbul, Jeanneret recorded his impressions in the many sketches he completed during the trip, establishing a lifelong method of investigation.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">[<a name="2">2</a>] Xavier Monteys, Le Corbusier. Obras y proyectos (Barcelona: 2005, Editorial Gustavo Gili), <a href="http://www.gustavogili.net/PDF/DP/675_ES.pdf">extracto del primer capítulo</a> [pdf] de la web de la editorial.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">[<a name="3">3</a>] Aquí Le Corbusier se está refiriendo a tres diferentes partes de Estambul. <strong>Pera</strong> (en griego, &#8220;el otro lado&#8221;) corresponde al distrito situado en el lado europeo y que se conoce como <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyo%C4%9Flu">Beyoğlu</a> en la actualidad. Con <em><strong>Estambul</strong></em> es probable que se refiera a la península histórica y barrio de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin%C3%B6n%C3%BC">Eminönü</a> , y <strong>Escutari</strong> es la moderna <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uskudar">Üsküdar</a>, en el lado asiático.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">[<a name="4">4</a>]Charles-Edouard  Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), <em>El viaje de Oriente</em> (Murcia: 1993, Colegio de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos de Murcia), 81.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">El <strong>texto original en francés</strong> del capítulo puede consultarse en <a href="http://www.revues.msh-paris.fr/vernumpub/10-LE%20CORBUSIER.doc">este enlace</a> [doc].</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Péra, Stamboul, Scutari : une trinité. J’aime ce mot, parce qu’il a quelque chose de sacré.</p>
<p>Nous buvions lentement le mastic, le père Bonnal et moi, sur notre balcon d’Ainali-Tchechmé, lui, avant son dîner tardif, moi après avoir mangé à Stamboul et retraversé le pont. De notre belvédère, par-delà la dégringolade des cyprès des Petits Champs, on voyait la Corne d’Or. Stamboul pose là-dessous, une large barre d’ombre profilant sur le ciel éteint les silhouettes des grandes mosquées. Quand il y a de la lune – nous en eûmes deux fois –  la mer, qu’on voit au delà, relie d’un fil ruisselant les minarets aux minarets tout au long de la croupe ténébreuse.</p>
<p>La nuit était tombée. Mes sens m’échappaient un peu. Est-ce moi qui rêve, ou mon narrateur emporté par sa fantaisie? Sa voix rauque grasseye. Ses gros yeux d’absinthique sous des formidables sourcils gris sont noyés d’eau et brillent. C’est jaune et ça ruisselle d’or. Il y a tous les marbres de tous les palais de Byzance et tous les trésors des sultans et toutes les gemmes des sérails!</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color:#008080;">[<a name="5">5</a>] Xavier Monteys, <em><a href="http://www.gustavogili.net/PDF/DP/675_ES.pdf">op. cit</a></em>.</span></p>
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<link>http://piliaemmanuele.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/bon-ton_/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nella sua Storia dell&#8217;architettura moderna Bruno Zevi da un&#8217;accezione di estrema importa]]></description>
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<p>Nella sua <em>Storia dell&#8217;architettura moderna</em> Bruno Zevi da un&#8217;accezione di estrema importanza a quello che definisce <em>manierismo moderno</em>, le cui opere <em>esplorano infatti il linguaggio dei maestri, lo applicano in cornici più vaste, ne intrecciano gli etimi con incisività e coraggio</em>. I manieristi <em>indagano tematiche espressive pluralistiche, arricchendo il lessico, i nessi grammaticali e sintattici, le articolazioni linguistiche con originalità e talvolta genialmente, senza mai deragliare dal solco dell&#8217;avanguardia</em>. Viene a mente la differenza di comodo che viene fatta in ambito scientifico tra ricerca pura e ricerca applicata, dove mentre la prima ha come obiettivo primario l&#8217;avanzamento della conoscenza e la comprensione teorica tra le diverse variabili in gioco in un determinato processo, la seconda è svolta allo scopo di trovare soluzioni pratiche e specifiche, il cui obiettivo primario non è l&#8217;avanzamento della conoscenza, bensì lo sfruttamento di questa a fini pratici. È chiaro da ciò come il periodo storico che stiamo vivendo è per l&#8217;architettura una fase di <em>maniera</em>. Dietro la brutalità di una parola, si cela quindi una condizione di estremo interesse per il contemporaneo. Ma di quale maestri sono legittime figlie le nostre decadi? E soprattutto, è legittimo parlare di un rapporto diretto ed univoco? Stando a guardare le architetture dei protagonisti di quel tumultuoso &#8216;80, si direbbe piuttosto che sono proprio i maestri a reinventarsi, e la maniera a rincorrere, capovolgendo i fattori dell&#8217;equazione. L&#8217;esempio di Zaha Hadid è quanto mai calzante, avendo essa stessa dato vita ad almeno tre schiere di manierismi, che preso nel suo insieme non può che apparire contraddittorio e paradossale: passando per il neo-avanguardismo, passando poi verso una fase post-digitale, ed attualmente impegnata verso ciò che Patrik Schumacher chiama ambiguamente parametrismo, il lavoro dello studio inglese pare essere simile ad un andirivieni concettuale, al quale ogni innovazione apportata, deriva da un saccheggio legittimo di un con<em> </em>testo pratico-teorico affermato, ed una applicazione personale dello stesso.  Tutte e tre le sue fasi si possono difatti collocare facilmente in uno zeigheist chiaro: come gli anni dell&#8217;Architectural Association di Londra la hanno portata ad interessarsi ai primi anni &#8216;20 ed alle avanguardie storiche, così sul finire degli anni &#8216;90 le influenze della ormai matura transarchitettura si faranno sentire su una consistente quantità di progetti, per arrivare nell&#8217;ultimo lustro circa a sperimentare ciò che per gli studenti delle università di tutto il mondo iniziava a diventare legge.</p>
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<p>Il progetto per la sede della Corte Civile di Madrid, i cui lavori inizieranno nel 2010, potrebbe benissimo essere uscito dallo studio di un Lars Spuybroek o di un Kas Oosterhuis di sorta, se non dal desktop di uno studente particolarmente abile. Non è certo da abiurare questo tipo di pratica, ed anzi è tipica dell&#8217;evoluzione della storia dell&#8217;architettura: non è stato per caso Le Corbusier a trarre ispirazione dalla Citté Industrielle di Tony Garnier per gran parte delle sue idee urbanistiche ed architettoniche? Sarebbe quindi Le Corbusier da definire un manierista? Probabilmente sì, proprio per la natura flebile ed aleatoria del manierismo stesso: si rende necessario definire quindi il <em>manierismo</em> in una accezione più elastica, liquida, ed adattabile al contesto di cui si sta parlando. Il termine manierismo sta ad indicare la presenza di un&#8217;eredità implicità in un&#8217;opera di un <em>maestro</em>, di cui l&#8217;opera manierista stessa ne rappresenta la prosecuzione, ed in qualche modo un tributo. Non si intende qui peccare d&#8217;impressionismo, e confondere la citazione con la rielaborazione. Vi sono delle lacerazioni storiche difficilmente riassimilabili a tendenze temporali lineari, spesso infeconde, qualche volta esplosive. Paradossalmente, in un epoca come la nostra, che predilige lo scandalo, la trasgressione più insensata, il rifiuto e l&#8217;abietto, non si può certo dire che sia facile trovare ina di queste lacerazioni prima accennate. Ma forse, non ce né nemmeno bisogno.</p>
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<link>http://squaredtheory.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/lego-villa-savoye/</link>
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<link>http://chandigarhtourisminfo.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/the-open-hand/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[The open hand is one of India’s most prominent modern monuments. It is a huge structure with a shape]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The open hand is one of India’s most prominent modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument" target="_blank">monuments</a>. It is a huge structure with a shape of an open hand which looks like a dove. It is a complete architectural marvel build on the sector 1 of the capitol complex in Chandigarh. It was designed by the Swiss Architect <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/137221/Le-Corbusier" target="_blank">Le Corbusier</a>. The open hand is made from metal sheets which rotates according the direction of the wind similar to the <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/weathercock" target="_blank">weathercock</a>. The giant hand is 14 meters high and as heave as 50 tons. The open hand conveys social message of peace and unity which also gives a hidden meaning of “open to give and open to receive”. This monument is today the official symbol of the city.</p>
<p>Chandigarh has an airport and a railways and the city is well connected with one of the best network of roadways. There are also several <a href="http://www.holidayiq.com/Popular-Chandigarh-Hotels-Resorts-Reviews-Ratings-Tariff-Rates-325-8-yes-state.html" target="_blank">hotels </a>and resorts in Chandigarh for tourists to stay.</p>
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<link>http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/ronchamp/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pvtreskow</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This great work, like several others in Le Corbusier’s late oeuvre, departs from his principles of s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-218" title="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" src="http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/unbenannt-rc17.jpg" alt="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" width="450" height="337" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-219" title="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" src="http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/unbenannt-rc18.jpg" alt="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" width="450" height="337" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-220" title="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" src="http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/unbenannt-rc19.jpg" alt="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" width="450" height="337" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-221" title="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" src="http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/unbenannt-rc26.jpg" alt="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" width="450" height="337" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-222" title="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" src="http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/unbenannt-rc27.jpg" alt="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" width="450" height="337" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-223" title="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" src="http://pvtreskow.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/unbenannt-rc28.jpg" alt="Photography © Petra Vadehra von Treskow 2009" width="450" height="337" /></p>
<p>This great work, like several others in Le Corbusier’s late oeuvre, departs from his principles of standardization and the machine aesthetic outlined in &#8216;Vers une architecture&#8217;. Also in this project, the structural design of the roof was inspired by the engineering of airfoils. &#62; <a href="http://www.chapellederonchamp.fr/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Ronchamp</strong></span></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[LE CORBUSIER]]></title>
<link>http://grandiurbanisti.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/le-corbusier-4/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marikuccia</dc:creator>
<guid>http://grandiurbanisti.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/le-corbusier-4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[   Le Corbusier, pseudonimo di Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (La Chaux-de-Fonds, 6 ottobre 1887 – R]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dormitory Room]]></title>
<link>http://thesilverliningblog.com/2009/11/11/dormitory-room/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thesilverlining</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thesilverliningblog.com/2009/11/11/dormitory-room/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. Via 2 or 3 things I know.]]></description>
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<p>By <a href="http://www.artnet.com/artist/10202/le-corbusier-and-charlotte-perriand.html" target="_blank">Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand</a>.</p>
<p>Via <a href="http://2or3things.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-leave-when-things-get-too-stuffy-or.html" target="_blank">2 or 3 things I know</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Geometry]]></title>
<link>http://architecouture.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/1061/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>architecouture</dc:creator>
<guid>http://architecouture.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/1061/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[of 24 Nungesser et Coli ♦ Opening Hours by appointment Saturday 10.00 &#8211; 13.00 13.30 &#8211; 17]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">of 24 Nungesser et Coli</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1064" title="0" src="http://architecouture.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/03.jpg" alt="0" width="604" height="404" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1063" title="DSC_0393" src="http://architecouture.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dsc_0393.jpg" alt="DSC_0393" width="604" height="902" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1062" title="DSC_0109" src="http://architecouture.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dsc_0109.jpg" alt="DSC_0109" width="604" height="404" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1076" title="DSC_0124" src="http://architecouture.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dsc_0124.jpg" alt="DSC_0124" width="604" height="903" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">♦</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Opening Hours</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">by appointment</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Saturday</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">10.00 &#8211; 13.00</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">13.30 &#8211; 17.00</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Sources: Fondation Le Corbusier Paris, My Pictures Archive.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Le Corbusier]]></title>
<link>http://elversodeluniverso.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/le-corbusier/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elversodeluniverso</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elversodeluniverso.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/le-corbusier/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Formulary For A New Urbanism]]></title>
<link>http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/formulary-for-a-new-urbanism/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamblichus</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/formulary-for-a-new-urbanism/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Korean street, late 1800s: credit unknown Seoul apartments, 2008. by Flickr user &quot;bhophoto]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_2493" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2493" title="100street" src="http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/100street.jpg" alt="A Korean street, late 1800's" width="500" height="380" /><p class="wp-caption-text">A Korean street, late 1800s: credit unknown</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2485" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2485" title="apart0" src="http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/apart0.jpg" alt="apart0" width="500" height="332" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Seoul apartments, 2008. by Flickr user &#34;bhophoto&#34;</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2488" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2488" title="100town" src="http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/100town.jpg" alt="100town" width="500" height="340" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The likely view 100 years earlier: credit unknown</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2482" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-2482" title="apart2" src="http://jamblichus.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/apart2.jpg" alt="apart2" width="500" height="343" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Seoul apartments. Credit as above.</p></div>
<blockquote><p>***</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier">Le Corbusier’s</a> style [is] suitable for factories and hospitals, and no doubt eventually for prisons. (Doesn’t he already build churches?) Some sort of psychological repression dominates this individual such that he wants to squash people under ignoble masses of reinforced concrete, a noble material that should rather be used to enable an aerial articulation of space that could surpass the flamboyant Gothic style.</p>
<p>His cretinizing influence is immense. A Le Corbusier model is the only image that arouses in me the idea of immediate suicide. He is destroying the last remnants of joy. And of love, passion, freedom.</p>
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<p>Darkness and obscurity are banished by artificial lighting, and the seasons by air conditioning. Night and summer are losing their charm and dawn is disappearing. The urban population think they have escaped from cosmic reality, but there is no corresponding expansion of their dream life. The reason is clear: dreams spring from reality and are realized in it.</p>
<p>The latest technological developments would make possible the individual’s unbroken contact with cosmic reality while eliminating its disagreeable aspects. Stars and rain can be seen through glass ceilings. The mobile house turns with the sun. Its sliding walls enable vegetation to invade life. Mounted on tracks, it can go down to the sea in the morning and return to the forest in the evening.</p>
<p>Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality and engendering dreams. It is a matter not only of plastic articulation and modulation expressing an ephemeral beauty, but of a modulation producing influences in accordance with the eternal spectrum of human desires and the progress in fulfilling them.</p>
<p>The architecture of tomorrow will be a means of modifying present conceptions of time and space. It will be both a means of knowledge and a means of action. Architectural complexes will be modifiable. Their appearance will change totally or partially in accordance with the will of their inhabitants.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Formulary for a New Urbanism</em>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chtcheglov">Ivan Chtcheglov</a>, 1953.</p></blockquote>
<p>Somehow I don&#8217;t think Chtcheglov &#8212; who tried to blow up the Eiffel tower because its light was shining in his bedroom window and keeping him awake &#8211;would like Seoul, circa 2009, very much, even if it (caught at the right moment) has it&#8217;s own beauty (see picture no. 4)&#8230;</p>
<p>I, too, want a house mounted on tracks that can go down to the sea in the morning and return to the forest in the evening. I do not, however, want to end up in a mental institution having electro-shock treatment like the author of this classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International">Situationist</a> essay.</p>
<p>(The pictures and the essay need some comment; good material for a discussion about <a href="http://www.trendbird.co.kr/2661">the future of the city</a>, <a href="http://www.ecovillage.org/">eco-architecture</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanok">traditional Korean houses</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization">global urbanisation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography">psychogeography</a>, the Situationists, etc. Sadly, your blogger is suffering from mental block brought on by too much screen-gazing and a lunch of ramen and can only offer the above as pointer for your own meanderings. Bon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dérive">Dérive</a> and Voyage)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[More Than Wallpaper]]></title>
<link>http://howtobecomeanarchitect.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/more-than-wallpaper/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnpilsbury</dc:creator>
<guid>http://howtobecomeanarchitect.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/more-than-wallpaper/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You may remember the wallpaper from The Grapes that was drawn up. Well it is starting to take on a 3]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">You may remember the wallpaper from The Grapes that was drawn up. Well it is starting to take on a 3D form, not quite sure at what scale yet or for what exact purpose but I thought it would be good to show that there is initial workings and many investigations that may not lead to an answer but may still inform the final output.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The picture also seems reminiscent of Le Corbusier&#8217;s <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3354/3513641393_be9ca61156.jpg">Plan Voisin</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[New at Century Finds - Jen Renninger]]></title>
<link>http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/new-at-century-finds-jen-renninger/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>centuryfinds</dc:creator>
<guid>http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/new-at-century-finds-jen-renninger/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I wanted to take a moment to spotlight one of the newer artists in our Contemporary section. I love ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I wanted to take a moment to spotlight one of the newer artists in our Contemporary section. I love the work of Jen Renninger (see her <a title="One Illustration every day for 365 days" href="http://jenrenninger365.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> for some great inspiration) and I think her <a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/333/Modern%20Design%20Deck%20Poster" target="_blank">Modern Design Deck </a>series fits in so well with the Century Finds vibe.</p>
<p>These stylish prints feature iconic modernist furnishings from the first half of the 20th Century. They are very sympathetically rendered and the style is so versatile, slotting in well with all kinds of decor.</p>
<p>We have a selection of these affordable 11.5&#8243; by 8&#8243; pictures in stock.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/product/34/334/Eames%20RAR%20Rocker%20Print"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1255" title="The Eames RAR Rocker" src="http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/rar.jpg" alt="The Eames RAR Rocker " width="468" height="374" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Eames RAR Print + Image from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adina_katz/3059928464/">booiecanoe</a> </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/335/Eames%20Lounger%20Print"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256" title="Eames Lounger Print by Jen Renninger" src="http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/lounger.jpg" alt="Eames Lounger Print by Jen Renninger" width="468" height="374" /></a><strong>Eames Lounger Print + Image from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23261731@N04/2230440461/" target="_blank">May61</a></strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/337/Panton%20Chair%20Print"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1258" title="Panton Chair Print by Jen Renninger" src="http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/panton.jpg" alt="Panton Chair Print by Jen Renninger" width="468" height="374" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Panton Chair Print + Image from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/utopsie/415249234/">Fran6co</a></strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/338/Nelson%20Lamp%20Print"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1259" title="Nelson Lamp Print by Jen Renninger" src="http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/nelson.jpg" alt="Nelson Lamp Print by Jen Renninger" width="468" height="374" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Nelson Lamp Print + Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/safetroy/2042284938/" target="_blank">tampatroy727</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>. </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/358/Le%20Corbusier%20Chair%20Print"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1261" title="Le Corbusier Chair Print by Jen Renninger" src="http://centuryfinds.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/lecorbusier.jpg" alt="Le Corbusier Chair Print by Jen Renninger" width="468" height="374" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Le Corbusier Chair Print + Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantasti/3668754922/" target="_blank">b_fantasti</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">You can find our current stock from Jen Renninger <a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/Jen%20Renninger" target="_blank">here</a>, and if we don&#8217;t currently have the print you want,  most are also available by <a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/contact_us.php" target="_blank">special order</a> . These prints make great gifts &#8211; whether you are shopping for others or for yourself &#8211; and the best thing is, they will not break the bank <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  .</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Can&#8217;t decide? For the complete Modern Design Deck experience, we also stock a <a href="http://www.centuryfinds.com/manufacturer/122/333/Modern%20Design%20Deck%20Poster" target="_blank">poster</a> showing all 30 images in the series.</p>
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<link>http://interesting2008times.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/seven-times-seven-days-of-study-the-journey-continues/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kent Hakull</dc:creator>
<guid>http://interesting2008times.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/seven-times-seven-days-of-study-the-journey-continues/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The closer we get to the present, the closer reality is about to hit us; we embrace for the clash an]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Week 7</strong></span><em><strong> </strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-595" title="Portrait-LeCorbusier-1960-65" src="http://interesting2008times.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/portrait-lecorbusier-1960-651.jpg?w=228" alt="Portrait-LeCorbusier-1960-65" width="228" height="300" /><br />
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.time.com/time/time100/artists/profile/lecorbusier.html">Le Corbusier</a> (1887-1965) introduces &#8216;towers in the park&#8217;  with the benefits of greenspace, sunlight and high density. The whole world experiments with his concepts. The impact of the car is unpredictable, unimaginable: modernism, the sum of the whole, transforms the world without adhering to one man&#8217;s complete vision.</strong></li>
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<li><strong>The inner city, between decline and <a href="http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?t=7964">gentrification</a>, is a constantly moving target, adapting and dictating changes of lifestyle and livelihoods according to fashions of the time. The forces at play are beyond any planned intention. There is a planned drive to bring people in to the city again, and the market responds accordingly.<br />
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.lomborg.com/">Bjørn Lomborg</a> proposes rational approaches to political problems. Nothing more, nothing less. It is controversial. Rational people love it, while most special interest groups feel undervalued. I wonder if he merely manages to see a tree without understanding, feeling and caring for the forest, and thus believes it is best to cure the world one problem at the time? I re-read &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful">Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered</a>&#8221; by <a href="http://www.schumacher.org.uk/">E.F. Schumacher</a> (1911-1977), but Plan 703 is not the place to bring forth too many alternative views.<br />
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<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/Dtbn9zBfJSs&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/Dtbn9zBfJSs&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong>Rushed Reflections</strong></p>
<p>The week went by so quickly I could hardly find time to reflect on it, before the next one is to begin. November and December is writing, which means I am coming to a close with most of my reading. I can feel it in my head, all the thoughts maturing and preparing to be let free to express themselves. Like wild ghosts seeking a way to materialize, seeking a way to generate new insight. They are real however, and the challenge is to make them work for me and not the other way around.</p>
<p>My academic challenge, which in turn will be my professional challenge, is to find the core of the issue, and proceed by offering the correct analysis and reporting of the means. Good means (parts) will bring good ends (whole), I believe. Looking at the cost and benefit is indeed key to this, stresses Simpson, and if we can prove pro and con to everly alternative, then the recipient will rightly be able to make up his/her own mind. That&#8217;s what professionals do, I am told.</p>
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<link>http://transmedial.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/arte-ciencia-y-tecnologia-iii-sobre-the-poeme-electronique-de-le-corbusier/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[El origen de los espacios inmersivos y las instalaciones multimedia pasa sin duda por la obra Poème ]]></description>
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<p>El origen de los espacios inmersivos y las instalaciones multimedia pasa sin duda por la obra <strong>Poème électronique</strong> que ideó el arquitecto Le Corbusier para el Philips en 1958.</p>
<p>Le Corbusier; Iannis Xenakis; Edgard Varèse<br />
«Poème électronique: Philips Pavilion»</p>
<blockquote><p>«Poème électronique» is the first, electronic-spatial environment to combine architecture, film, light and music to a total experience made to functions in time and space. Under the direction of Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenaki&#8217;s concept and geometry designed the World&#8217;s Fair exhibition space adhering to mathematical functions. Edgard Varèse composed the both concrete and vocal music which enhanced dynamic, light and image projections conceived by Le Corbusier. Varèse&#8217;s work had always sought the abstract and, in part, visually inspired concepts of form and spatial movements. Among other elements for «Poème électronique» he used machine noises, transported piano chords, filtered choir and solo voices, and synthetic tone colorings. With the help of the advanced technical means made available through the Philips Pavilion, the sounds of this composition for tape recorder could wander throughout the space on highly complex routes.<br />
«The Philips Pavilion presented a collage liturgy for twentieth-century humankind, dependent on electricity instead of daylight and on virtual perspectives in place of terrestrial views.»<br />
(Source: Marc Treib, Space Calculated in Seconds, Princeton, 1996, p. 3)</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[„Religionsstifter der Moderne“]]></title>
<link>http://blog.thebrights.de/2009/10/30/%e2%80%9ereligionsstifter-der-moderne%e2%80%9c/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nickpol</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.thebrights.de/2009/10/30/%e2%80%9ereligionsstifter-der-moderne%e2%80%9c/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Quelle: Goethe.de Goethe-Institut Die Moderne ist nicht anti-religiös, sondern selbst religiös äußer]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Quelle: Goethe.de Goethe-Institut Die Moderne ist nicht anti-religiös, sondern selbst religiös äußer]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA["Otlet saw documents everywhere"]]></title>
<link>http://pedroneira.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/otlet-saw-documents-everywhere/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pedro Neira</dc:creator>
<guid>http://pedroneira.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/otlet-saw-documents-everywhere/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A importância da documentação é por vezes subestimada, Paul Otlet entendia essa importância: “Otlet ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>A importância da documentação é por vezes subestimada, Paul Otlet entendia essa importância: “<em>Otlet saw documents everywhere, (…) in photography, microforms, film, radio, television and even x-rays.</em>”</p>
<p>Até à invenção da fotografia a documentação resumia-se à escrita e à ilustração. Ambas descrições feitas por alguém, não eram relatos exactos da realidade, eram representações que inevitavelmente teriam um cunho pessoal.</p>
<p>A fotografia e o vídeo são o contrário. Permitem uma rápida captação de imagens fiéis à realidade sendo portanto de enorme uso na documentação.</p>
<p>Le Corbusier foi também um pioneiro no uso destas novas formas de documentação. Aos 24 anos fez uma viagem pelo leste da Europa &#8220;voyage d&#8217;Orient&#8221; para estudar a arquitectura desses locais. Le Corbusier para além dos vários artigos e esboços que fez documentou a sua viagem com centenas de fotografias. Numa exposição de 2008 podia ler-se no cartaz publicitário: <em>This timely reassessment presents a wealth of original architectural models, interior reconstructions, drawings, furniture, vintage photographs, films, tapestries, paintings, sculpture and books by Le Corbusier himself.</em>O gosto pela documentação era quase obsessivo, ao longo de toda a sua carreira, documentou exaustivamente as fases dos seus projectos do atelier aos estaleiros e à obra em si, permitindo-nos hoje, saber os seus comentários e raciocínios deixando assim um importante legado para além das obras e dos três livros que escreveu.</p>
<p>A função da documentação é evitar que a informação se perca, e tanto Otlet como Le Corbusier fizeram os possíveis para registar tudo o que achavam relevante auxiliando-se das então novas tecnologias, antecipando-se cerca de duas décadas àquilo que passou a ser, e ainda é, prática comum.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[doodles.]]></title>
<link>http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/doodles/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amasomi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/doodles/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[was reading archidose, and today&#8217;s mention is a new Moleskine notebook that has sketches by di]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>was reading <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2009/10/sketchbook-of-moment.html" target="_blank">archidose</a>, and today&#8217;s mention is a new Moleskine notebook that has sketches by different famous architects inside of it (and room for you to make your sketches in it, too).. it&#8217;s called The Hand of The Architect.. can get one <a href="http://www.moleskineus.com/pmofh2332-the-hand-of-the-architect.html" target="_blank">here </a>(but don&#8217;t until I get mine!).</p>
<p>anyhow, this post is dedicated to sketches, doodles, renderings, hand drawings&#8230;  i love sketching (maybe one of these days you&#8217;ll see one of them).</p>
<div id="attachment_299" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 395px"><img class="size-full wp-image-299" title="Web.HadidRendering" src="http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/web-hadidrendering.gif" alt="Web.HadidRendering" width="385" height="282" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Chanel Mobile Art Container : Zaha Hadid</p></div>
<div id="attachment_300" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 340px"><img class="size-full wp-image-300" title="philips" src="http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/philips.gif" alt="philips" width="330" height="296" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Philips Pavilion : Le Corbusier (&#38; Xenakis)</p></div>
<div id="attachment_301" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-full wp-image-301" title="vuoksenniska" src="http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vuoksenniska.jpg" alt="vuoksenniska" width="450" height="278" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Vuoksenniska Church : Alvar Aalto</p></div>
<div id="attachment_302" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 470px"><img class="size-full wp-image-302" title="iac" src="http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/iac.jpg" alt="iac" width="460" height="345" /><p class="wp-caption-text">IAC Building : Frank Gehry</p></div>
<div id="attachment_303" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 510px"><img class="size-full wp-image-303" title="barcelona" src="http://blogdemasomi.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/barcelona.jpg" alt="barcelona" width="500" height="378" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Disney Concert Hall : Frank Gehry</p></div>
<p style="text-align:left;">I love Gehry&#8217;s sketches.. I think they look the most like mine (and not in a good way haha).</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">credits: tocome.</p>
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