Architecture

016/03/03

Architecture

Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren.

Can you be more idiot that that? Of course the designer could not be other than Dutch! A building on two supports. If you look from one side it shows the bridge structure (questionable but acceptable), if you look at it from another side it shows its complete absurdity.

Architecture

The American Foursquare is the best example of how the residential architecture should be: simple, economical, honest, boxy, with some traces of the Prairies houses. But architects are hungry for money and fame.

2016/02/25

CAMPO BAEZA

Alberto Campo Baeza (1946-). Spanish architect.

A beautiful object, I agree, but this item is to be a house in which people will be living; will they be able to appreciate the sophisticated planes and volumes game? Will they be able to stand it for long without trying to introduce changes? I doubt it.

The temples of classical Greece were magnificent architectural objects, but they should only be appreciated from the outside because the inside was insignificant and without any value. A dwelling house in my opinion is something else.

2016/02/04

Architecture

What is the need to construct a building crooked since the floors are perfectly and necessarily horizontal?

2015/12/05

Architecture in USA

America, the land of freedom and opportunity, yet it would be difficult to define freedom in a clear way. We should make a distinction between freedom and homologation. 

It's Cape Coral, in Florida. At first glance it seems a charming place to live, isn't it? But let's try to look from another point of view: from above. Undoubtedly some of you dream to live here, not me, I would be suffocated despite the availability of air, sky, and sun over my head. There is missing the story that for everyone means the past, means what we have been. Someone will say: the past you have got inside you and it has nothing to do with the scenery. That's true, but the individual identity needs to recognize the environment; how can you put down roots in a place impossible to recognize if not through a number or code?

2015/10/31

Architecture

Weiss/Manfredi architects.

An extravagant path-drive attached to a contemporary art museum, the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. Questionable in its complexity. I wonder if it was needed a structure so complex to stimulate the visitors. I publish also a designers' sketch just to show once again that contemporary architects do not know how to draw.

2015/10/06

Architecture

Montagnana, a little known Italian jewel.

2015/09/07

Architecture

This is a positive example of contemporary architecture; it is a public library, beautiful and functional. It is in Québec and was designed by a consortium of Canadian architects.

2015/01/19

Architecture

Isometric cut-away.
Unknown.

2014/08/03

GATES

They are two pictures involving me a lot: one is the famous Malbork castle and the other is a church in Greifswald.

I am convinced that when gates like these are closed behind you it is for ever. Of course you can be in or out. It depends by your desires and expectations and, of course, they are the natural consequence of your actions.