Tag: Brno

• 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…

  dereksayer

  March 26, 2024

  architecture, modernism, reflections

  Barcelona, Brno

• blues + yellows #2

  #1 Johor Bahru #2-3 Siem Reap #4-5 Hanoi Jan-Feb 2016 #1-3 Saigon Feb 2016 #4 Frankfurt March 2016 #1-2 Frankfurt #3-4 Berlin #5-7 Prague (Karlín) March-April 2016 #1-4 Prague (Karlín + Žižkov) #5-6 Prague-Brno rail journey April 2016 Calgary, 2016-2017 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah February 2023 Kuching, Sarawak February 2023

  dereksayer

  June 9, 2023

  artworks, cafés, cities, colors, food, graffiti, Luci, markets, museums, people, rail journeys, street photography, trains

  Berlin, Brno, Calgary, Cambodia, Frankfurt, Hanoi, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Prague, Sabah, Saigon, Sarawak, Siem Reap, Vietnam

• Mies #2: the Tugendhat villa

  At the same time as he was working on his Barcelona pavilion for the 1929 World’s Fair (see my earlier post Mies: light, air, clarity), Mies van der Rohe was planning the Tugendhat villa in Brno, Czechoslovakia. It shares many of the same design elements (the onyx partition wall, the cruciform columns, the vistas of…

  dereksayer

  April 6, 2023

  architecture, modernism

  Brno