Worship Buildings: Discussion on their Mysticism
The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. Picture by Myriam Mahiques I have visited the Crystal Cathedral designed by architect Philip Johnson twice. It is located in the city […]
The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. Picture by Myriam Mahiques I have visited the Crystal Cathedral designed by architect Philip Johnson twice. It is located in the city […]
Narcissus in love with his image, 1728. Painting by François Lemoyne, 1688-1728. Hamburger Kunsthalle. http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Narcissus.html Narcissus’ story is the myth of the origin of the flower bearing his name and […]
Aerial picture of flower fields. Carlsbad, California. By Alex Mac Lean. From http://www.photographersgallery.com/i/full/cut_flower_fields.jpg The most popular E. Allan Poe’s tales are those psychologically thrilling, related to murder, maladies, anguish. But […]
Ancient sculpture of angel The pyramid and the tree An archaeological settlement in the desert Catacombs with human bones Petroglyphs under the sun Eagle Rock painting Ruins in the cliff […]
Sagrada Familia, detail. From wikiwak.org I´ve found it nice to offer a tribute to the work of architect Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (1852-1926) for the Nativity façade of the […]
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, 1887, by Henry Lee. Image downloaded from elvezio-sciallis.blogspot.com Polypodium barometz or Cibotium barometz, (golden chicken fern, woolly fern) is a species of arborescent fern. The […]
This is a picture of Hiroshima urban fabric damage after the bomb. I will try to see if there is a possibility to measure the damage. My objective is, once I […]
Here we see two different urban morphologies. First one, part of Seul (Asia) and second one part of El Monte (California, USA). For experienced researchers, urban morphologies as seen in […]
Towers and bridges. Digital art by Myriam B. Mahiques New York. By Debra Hurd. Kevin Lynch states that we have no adequate contemporary normative theory about the form of […]
Riachuelo environment in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Picture by Myriam Mahiques In his book “Good City Form”, Kevin Lynch states that city performance can be measured solely by reference […]