ARTE TECNOLOGA TRADICIN

Inventando espacios con acero y torsiones.

Richard Serra en el MoMA

Arne Quinze at Burning Man

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Here is a sequence of images showing the construction and destruction of the giant wood sculpture designed by Arne Quinze of Quinze & Milan at the Burning Man festival in Death Valley, USA in September last year.

The sculpture is a larger version of the timber installations Quinze has built at design shows in London, Cologne and Miami and required 150km of wooden laths.

It took 25 people over three weeks to build the structure, which measured 60m x 30m x 15m high.

The structure was destroyed as the final burn of the week-long festival.

arquitectura espaola en el moma

Great Canfield A Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects project. This is an example of W.T.Lamb & Sons Gauged Arches in our Cut Face TLB Red Rubber Material.

Juniper Hill A Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects project.

Williamsberg, East Coast USA A Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects project.

Private Residence, Dorset, UK

Known as Ferne Park, this private residence that Quinlan Terry designed in Dorset, UK, was named "Best Modern Classical House" in 2003 by the Georgian Group.

Merchants Square Meets Quinlan Terry

Second aerial view by William Campbell for Arthur Shurcliff's office, c.1928, with thenstanding Methodist Church at right rear, where Richmond and Jamestown roads meet Duke of Gloucester Street. Such drawings reveal the influence of formal urban planning like that for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition and 1901-02 McMillan proposals for Washington, D.C., ultimately gentled in Williamsburg by the small scale of the Historic Area.

July 3, 1930, sketch by Perry, Shaw & Hepburn showing the Methodist Church and the north block much as built but before parking was moved to the rear.

1930s view of the south block, with the Craft House, then A & P Grocery, on the left.

Quinlan Terry's preliminary design sketch, January, 2001, for the west elevation of new additions to Merchants Square.

January, 2002, Quinlan Terry drawing for the west elevation of the new northwest building, issued by Richmond architects Glave and Holmes.

Detail of brick niche centered on the upper wall of the northwest building.

Erith and Terry detail for brickwork crowning the northwest corner of the new building. Drawn by Christine Terry for Erith and Terry.

The northwest corner brickwork detailed in the sketch at left nearing completion.

Model of the Quinlan Terry Riverside development

Len Krier
El arquitecto luxemburgus Len Krier, ha diseado el anexo a la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Miami. Es una obra histrica que juga "a hacer ciudad" con un simple edificio y un costo reducido. Recuerdo que un da de presentaciones en la Universidad de Miami, se me ocurri invitar al poeta cumanayagense Nstor Daz de Villegas. Convenimos encontramos en la biblioteca de Phillip Jonson (lugar al que Nstor era adicto). All cogimos el state of the art Metrorail hasta University Station. Al llegar, ya la cosa haba empezado.... Michael Graves, una de las estrellas del postmodernismo yuma. Despus le toc el turno a Len: brillante, lleno de ingenio, intolerante con la mediocridad. El jurado le cuestionaba que su estilo historicista no se avena a la esttica tecnolgica contempornea. Len contest: Seores para conectar una

computadora lo nico que se necesita es un tomacorrientes -y a veces ni eso. Soy un creador de formas y no ando mirando a qu perodo pertenecen... las empleo como convengan.

I have tried to design a house that represents "Home" the way a child would draw it. My aim was to design a real Kolonihavehus with a bit of the fantasy and the exotic that these small houses symbolize. The house is to be understood as a place with a roof where one can seek cover. There is a fireplace, a bed, a table and a walled-in garden. In the garden is a little shed with wood for the fireplace. It is important for architects to design something people feel good living in. Leon Krier

Reconstruction of Friedrichstrasse in Berlin (1981)

IBA Competition entry by Maurice Culot and Leon Krier

" To protest against the transformation and destruction of cities serves no purpose if we do not have a global alternative plan of reconstruction in our hands. A critique which has no project is another face of a fragmented society, of which the city is the instrument and expression. " Leon Krier

LEON KRIER designed the master plan for town of Poundbury in Dorset, England, a project sponsored by the Prince of Wales

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