DESDE ABAJO - Manhattan

 

El mismo hombre

Fisherman Pole (by Hengki Koentjoro)

Collage

Fuernte: http://www.santiagodemolina.com/2015/04/las-estrategias-de-la-arquitectura-en.html

Estrategias de lenguaje - F.Lloyd Wright

"Por mucho que un anciano de ochenta y seis inviernos se esfuerce, mostrar la diferencia entre la sintaxis moderna y la orgánica con las manos es una tarea de compleja destilación. Para colmo esto podía haberse dicho de modo más breve. Basta una breve triada de verbos: copiar, trasformar y combinar.
Todas las estrategias de la arquitectura remiten a alguna de esas tres.
Sin excepción.
Dicho así suena fácil, pero enunciarlo de este modo me ha llevado seis años"...

http://www.santiagodemolina.com/2015/04/las-estrategias-de-la-arquitectura-en.htm

¡A disfrutar!

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...“Take your pleasure seriously” Charles Eames

Bach / Zumpthor

Grand Central Station 1930

Fuente: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/04/20/actualidad/1429529767_342247.html?utm_content=buffereb7c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Escenario de tantas historias - Grand Central Terminal, New York

Una narración en imágenes - El Greco

 

 

Libros "ilustrados"

Para aquellos a quienes lo que más les gusta de los libros son "los dibujitos"

*Una investigadora de los archivos de la Universidad de Iowa descubrió algo
increible escondido en varios libros del siglo 19: pinturas en el canto de
los libros que solo se pueden ver cuando las páginas se colocan en cierto
ángulo.*

Sabían que una manera de señalar la pertenencia de un ejemplar, es escribir un nombre, un número , moviendo las hojas como se muestra en los ejemplos

Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowaby Christopher Jobson on September 2, 2013

Autumn by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Autumn by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Winter by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Winter by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Spring by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Spring by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Summer by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

Summer by Robert Mudie / Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa

A few days ago Colleen Theisen who helps with outreach and instruction at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa shared an amazing gif she made that demonstrates something called fore-edge painting on the edge of a 1837 book called Autumn by Robert Mudie. Fore-edge painting, which is believed to date back as early as the 1650s, is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of a book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out. There are even books that have double fore-edge paintings, where a different image can be seen by flipping the book over and fanning the pages in the opposite direction.
When I realized the book Theisen shared was only one of a series about the seasons, I got in touch and she agreed to photograph the other three so we could share them with you here. Above are photos of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter which were donated to the University of Iowa by Charlotte Smith. How much fun are these? Keep an eye on the University of Iowa’s special collections Tumblr as they unearth more artificats from the archives.

Fuente: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/fore-edge-book-paintings/

"Folies" de Parc de la Villette | Bernard Tschumi

Fuente: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=461573490676175&set=pcb.461573784009479&type=1&theater

Desde arriba urbano

La arquitectura de la musica

Asi se camina de otra manera - Burle Marx

Frida Kahlo x 40 B&W

40 Black and White Portraits of Frida Kahlo from between the 1930s and 1940s

"I paint self-portraits, because I’m so often alone, because I am the person I know best." Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo by Imogen Cunningham, 1930.

Frida Kahlo by Julien Levy, 1938.

Frida Kahlo in the artist’s studio by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1932.

Frida Kahlo sits with her arms folded, looking down, in front of one of her paintings and a wooden bird cage, c.1945.

Frida Kahlo with self-portrait drawing by Diego Rivera (1930), Coyoacan, circa 1945. Photo by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Frida Kahlo by Florence Arquin, c.1941.

Frida Kahlo photographed in 1946 after an operation.

Frida Kahlo and her dog Xolo.

Frida Kahlo by Leo Matiz, 1946

Frida Kahlo painting “The Two Fridas,” ca.1938 by Nickolas Muray.

Frida Kahlo by Lucienne Bloch, 1933.

Frida Kahlo by Lucienne Bloch, 1935.

Frida Kahlo holding her pet monkey, Mexico City, 1944.

Frida Kahlo in Front of the Unfinished Unity Panel, 1933. Photographed by Lucienne Bloch.

Frida boating at Xochimilco, Fritz Henle, 1936.

Frida Kahlo at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel, 1932. Photographed by Lucienne Bloch.

Frida Kahlo in Manuel Álvarez Bravo's studio, 1932.

Frida Kahlo by Lola Alvarez Bravo, 1944.

Frida Kahlo by Lola Alvarez Bravo, 1944.

Frida Kahlo by Carl Van Vechten, 1932.

Frida Kahlo by Guillermo Davila, 1929.

Frida Kahlo, 1932.

Frida Kahlo by Juan Guzman, c.1930.

Frida Kahlo by Fritz Henle, 1937.

Frida lying on her stomach by Nickolas Muray, 1946.

Frida Kahlo in the Casa Azul, anonymous photographer, 1930.

Frida Kahlo arriving in New York, 1938.

Frida Kahlo by Lola Alvarez Bravo, 1944..

Frida Kahlo painting "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States" in the Detroit Institute of Arts mural project studio, 1932. Photograph by W.J. Stettler.

Frida Kahlo by Leo Matiz, 1946.

Frida Kahlo by Leo Matiz, 1946.

Frida Kahlo by Leo Matiz, 1946.

Frida Kahlo by Leo Matiz, 1941.