Author Archive for jose vazquez
An exhibition of student works Friday, April 24th3 -9 p.m.
Guest reception to start at 7:00 p.m.
Location: Freedom Tower, at Miami Dade College 600 Biscayne Boulevard Gallery, Second Floor Downtown Miami
A great presentation great delivery and a great project …just what I would like my students to achieve
‘Architecture has its own realm.It has a special physical relationship with life.. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or a symbol,but, as an envelop and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythms of footsteps on the floors, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.”
peter zumthor , thinking architecture
link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13pritzker.html?_r=1&hp
” I know of no other city where a single street is so important. From sex shops and souvenir stalls to the opera house and, La Boqueria, the best food market in Spain, Las Ramblas caters-in one way or another- the most elemental desires of life.This is where Barcelona celebrates, protests and riots…it is almost as importantly, where Barcelona meets itself.”
from parc guell
from montjuic
paseo de gracia casa batllo by gaudi
“….for if any place in the world could make me levitate , it would be the Catalan capital.” Giles Tremlett
and I could not agree more.
Photographer: Roberto Sueiras Revuelta
“I’m of the opinion, and this is very important to me, that we are from somewhere. Ideally, we are from one place, where our roots are, but we should reach out to the entire world and borrow ideas from other cultures. Anyplace can be perfect for the person who’s adapted to it. Here in the Basque Country I feel like I’m where I belong, like a tree adapted to the land, but with branches that reach out to the rest of the world. I’m trying to create the work of a person, my own work because I am who I am, and since this is where I’m from, my work will take on particular tones, a sort of dark light, our light.” Eduardo Chillida
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Apr
09
north campus palmetum
” A garden was, in the biblical story, the first home. Garden is a potent and complex symbol; it embodies pleasure, fertility, sustenance, and renewal.Gardening is a life-embracing act, an act of faith and hope, and expression of commitment to the future.”
Anne Whiston Spirn, The language of landscape
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Mar
09
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The stone gardens of North and South campus ; practical solution or abstract poetry? How many times do we pause to look , see and reflect. These abstract “stone ponds” of north campus, as one of my students once called them are much more suggestive and tantalizing. Do they mean to induce a reflective mind state that should infuse a collegial environment ? or they are a succinct statement about impermanence and timeless? The pebbles round ”natural” or “imperfect” shapes stand in a dialectical juxtaposition to the prefabricated walls that define the campus tectonic condition.
Frederic, Lord Leighton FLAMING JUNE (1895)
I was nine years old when I visited the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico and I still remember the memory of this orange and the shimmering light beyond. The Prado Museum in Madrid is hosting an exhibition about Victorian Painting that features this gorgeous painting.
Lone survivor on Edgewater, a 1920′s bungalow. The resilient, reliable and too often ignored Miami bungalows.
link : http://www.americanbungalowmagazine.com/AmBungalow/miamifeature.html
