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Salton Sea: the beauty of ruins
My eldest daughter has gone to Salton Sea and took these pictures. Both her and me are moved by the beauty of the ruins. "It's like a ghost town, " she explained to me. I was curious and so I read...
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Holidays´ lights in the cities II
Seasonal illuminations around Christmas time have become a popular attraction in cities across Japan and none is more beautiful than the Kobe Luminarie. After the Kobe earthquake of 1995, Italy donated...
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NYC´s subways: different maps through the years
19391958197219792010What´s right and wrong about the graphic design for those maps?¨The most iconic edition remains the most controversial. Designer Massimo Vignelli’s clean modern lines and bold...
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Dinocrates and the creation of Alexandria
LANDSCAPE BY FATHER KIRCHER.In the seventeenth century, Father Kircher conceived the idea of taking up Dinocrates' plan upon a small scale, and composed the landscape shown in Fig. 1. The drawing...
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El debate sobre el zoológico de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
El templo hindú de los elefantes. Foto de Martín LucesoleReproduciré hoy fragmentos del artículo de Virginia Mejía para La Nación Revista acerca del debate sobre el futuro del zoológico de la Ciudad de...
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Art pictures through Google Street View
Harbor View Elementary School. Digital intervention by Myriam B. MahiquesI´m one of those who are tempted to use Google Earth, Google street view, Google maps, for my publications on urban morphology,...
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"WE call for papers." A list of predatory publishers
This image from http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/atheistswholovescience/forum/topics/beware-predatory-publishersI've received many of those interesting invitations to publish in "great journals." I...
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Beauty. Exploring critical issues. CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd GLOBAL CONFERENCESunday 15th September – Tuesday 17th September 2013Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom‘The first real problem I faced in my life was that of beauty,’ wrote the...
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Urbanism, Spirituality and Well Being. CALL FOR PAPERS
International Symposium at Glastonbury Abbey and Harvard Divinity School (June 6-9, 2013)Sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard Center for Health and Global Environment, and the ACS...
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The demolitions of historical Beijing in the work of Jiang Pengyi
I like these artistic photographs, the author is Jiang Pengyi, a Chinese artist who claims:¨My photographs of city, still objects and massive skyscrapers reduced to miniature sizes communicate my...
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Cities´ illustrations from the Nüremberg Chronicle
NürembergThe Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated Biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important...
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The architectural structures of Nature
Mr. Ron Neumeyer Delta, Canada Specimen: Blowfly Proboscis Technique: BrightfieldIs it a dome?I remember one of our colleague professors had a picture in the bathroom, beautiful illustrations of a fly,...
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Changes of habitat in the XIX Century, in the words of Virginia Woolf
Storm clouds gather and lightning strikes over the Houses of Parliamentthetimes.co.ukI ended 2012 reading Virgina Woolf´s Orlando, which I enjoyed, specially the beginning of chapter V, where she...
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Buildings as a disguise -out of the ¨architecture¨ category-
Heidi Weber Museum. Centre Le Corbusierhttp://www.centerlecorbusier.com/frameset2.htmlThe Centre Le Corbusier is a great example of an ideology. Beautiful in its plasticity, no need for decoration, or...
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Memories of a house demolition
I´ve been at a Craftsman style house demolition yesterday. Being built in wood frame, it´s impressive how fast a house like this can be demolished.This particular house that had been designed by an...
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About churches´ adaptive reuse
The first time I saw a project of dwellings in a church already deconsecrated, it caught my attention, but I thought, maybe it´s an isolated case. Up till now, I didn´t have a clue of how many churches...
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A new expedition to Troy
Ancient Troy. Photograph by James StanfieldMyth, folklore, mystery, and intrigue surround the ancient city of Troy like no other ruin on Earth. Once thought to be purely imaginary, a prop in Homer's...
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The skyline of the World Heritage Town Olomouc is in danger!
I have been reading and reflecting on the article by Edwin Heathcote, ¨The bad and the beautiful,¨ about beauty and cities, and I agree that our memories make us feel as beautiful different...
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Bridge over the Han River: screen shots from The Host movie
A forest of columns.Up till now, I´ve seen three movies by Korean director Bong Joon Ho, and in my list of preferred directors, he is after Peter Greenaway, whom I´ve always had on top. I love the way...
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Great design of maps and land cross sections
Felipe Correa/Somatic Collaborative, The Section as a Tool: A Regional Framework for Alexander von Humboldt’s Avenue of the Volcanoes, 2004.I am sharing these great maps, land cross sections,...
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