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The Holistic Conception of Paris Sewers

January 14, 2014by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

The Sewers. Photograph by Félix Nadar (1864/1865) The rebuilding of Paris between 1850 and 1870 is a crucial moment in urban history. The attempt by Emperor Napoleón III and his […]

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Habitat, History, Technology, Urban

January 14, 2014by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

 Greenman from Roselyn chapel column, Scotland Image from http://arthurcomegno.com/images/RoselynGreenMan.JPG The archetypal male counterpart to the Earth Mother; the son, lover, and guardian of the Great Goddess. He is portrayed as a […]

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Architecture, Arts, History, Landscape, Ornament

Eistein: Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions

January 13, 2014by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

Fractal generated by Myriam Mahiques I copied this chapter today from Albert Eistein’s book “Relativity. The Special and General Theory”  (Part I. The Special Theory of Relativity. I. Physical Meaning […]

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Design Theory, Fractals

The Variety of Architectural Orders. From The Stones of Venice

January 13, 2014by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

The Classical Orders. From Wikipedia.org Excerpts from Volume I of The Stones of Venice, by John Ruskin. London, 1896 All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived […]

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Architecture, Arts, Design Theory, History, Ornament

From The Builders: concepts on the mystical side of buildings

October 27, 2013by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

Stonehenge. Digital Photocollage, by Myriam B. Mahiques The book The Builders, by Joseph Fort Newton (1914), is a general survey of Masonic origins, history and philosophy. It was at one […]

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Archaeology, Architecture, Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Design Theory, History, Ornament

House, Environment, Beauty and Stability. From the “Book of the Damned” by Charles Hoy Fort.

October 27, 2013by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

Venus de Milo. Fromhttp://cryocity.com/ Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American  writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such […]

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Architecture, Arts, Habitat

How would Neanderthals live among us?

October 9, 2013by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Neanderthal, 1994. Silver gelatin print of an edition of 25. 20¨x24¨   Having read Isaac Asimov´s stories of robots or human-robots living among us, I´m not surprised that […]

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Cultural Anthropology, Urban

Filippo Brunelleschi and the City

October 9, 2013by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

The city of Florence from the Duomo. From www.sunilshinde.com/p-italy/ Filippo Brunelleschi was born in Florence in 1377. We know nothing of his life before 1398, when, at the age of 21, […]

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Architecture, History, Ornament, Phenomenology, Urban

Baroque Churches of San Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. In the words of Umberto Eco.

September 15, 2013by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

Baroque Bahia´s Church interior. From http://www.seasonsporttour.com/igf/novas_imagens/Bahia/182.jpg From UNESCO list of the World Heritage Monuments:  As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of […]

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Architecture, History

The Spatial Perception Under the Effects of Mescaline

September 15, 2013by Arq. Myriam B. Mahiques Leave a comment

Braque, Still life with purple plums, 1935. From pepperell.blogspot.com In his book “ The Doors of Perception” (USA, edition 1970), the English writer Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963), […]

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Architecture, Haptic Perception, Phenomenology

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  • The Variety of Architectural Orders. From The Stones of Venice January 13, 2014
  • From The Builders: concepts on the mystical side of buildings October 27, 2013
  • House, Environment, Beauty and Stability. From the “Book of the Damned” by Charles Hoy Fort. October 27, 2013
  • How would Neanderthals live among us? October 9, 2013
  • Filippo Brunelleschi and the City October 9, 2013
  • Baroque Churches of San Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. In the words of Umberto Eco. September 15, 2013
  • The Spatial Perception Under the Effects of Mescaline September 15, 2013
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  • Three videos of how to measure the Fractal Dimension of urban morphologies September 8, 2013
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