The Holistic Conception of Paris Sewers
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 […]
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 […]
Eistein: Physical Meaning of Geometrical Propositions
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 […]
The Variety of Architectural Orders. From The Stones of Venice
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 […]
From The Builders: concepts on the mystical side of buildings
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 […]
House, Environment, Beauty and Stability. From the “Book of the Damned” by Charles Hoy Fort.
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 […]
How would Neanderthals live among us?
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 […]
Filippo Brunelleschi and the City
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, […]
Baroque Churches of San Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. In the words of Umberto Eco.
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 […]
The Spatial Perception Under the Effects of Mescaline
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), […]
