Tag: Barcelona
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unexpected encounters #9: the villa of the future
August 31, 1914 … We bid adieu to a whole epoch Furious giants rise up over Europe Eagles leave their eyrie awaiting the sun Voracious fish ascend from the abysses Nations rush together to get to know one another completely The dead tremble with fear in their dark dwellings Guillaume Apollinaire, “The Little Car” As…
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diagonals #1
Barcelona, 2002 London (#1 + 3, 2001), Nîmes (#2, 2002) California April 2002 (#1 San Francisco, #2 + 3 Venice Beach) Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Building designed by Tadao Ando, 2002. Image #1 was shot inside Richard Serra’s sculpture “Vortex” (2002). Photos July 2010 Mexico City, February 2019 Singapore, June 2022
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statuesque
Barcelona, April 2015. 1st image is Georg Kolbe’s statue “Dawn” in Mies van der Rohe’s (reconstructed) Barcelona pavilion. Mexico City, February 2018. Parque México (Fuente de los Cántaros, [Fountain of the Pitchers] by José María Fernández Urbina), Museo Soumaya, Palacio de Bellas Artes, street in Condesa district. Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England, April 2018 Wrest Park…
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verticals #1
Chicago, August 2012 Chicago, November 22–24, 2013 Barcelona, April 2015 London, June 2015 London, April 2018 Madrid, May 2018
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Mies: light, air, clarity
The Barcelona photos were taken in April 2015, the rest in August 2011. Barcelona pavilion (1929) Lake Shore Drive apartments, Chicago (1951) Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951) S. R. Crown Hall, IIT Campus, Chicago (1956) See also my post Mies #2: the Tugendhat villa