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 […]
Category Archives: Arts
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 […]
Three videos of how to measure the Fractal Dimension of urban morphologies
Though the videos are in Spanish, readers will be able to understand them, as I am showing the methodology, the way I make it myself. It´s my first time producing […]
The Independent Group
Richard Hamilton. “Just What is it that Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so Appealing?”. 1956. From http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/_anonymouse_/hamilton.jpg The British Pop was launched by the Independent Group (IG) in 1952. I […]
Los Angeles: About the Mural Conservancy
Farewell to Rosie the Riveter,” a detail from the 1950s section of The Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, 1983. Mural: © Judith F. Baca and The Social and Public […]
Atrophy of Imagination in a Scientist (by Charles Dickens)
The Brain of the Artist. By Donna Skinner. At Donnaskinner.com In the edition of 1966 of George Ford and Sylvere Monod of Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, there are […]
Spaciousness and Crowding (part 2)
Oedipus and the Sphinx. From http://people.brandeis.edu/~jhale/Art/moreau/moreau_oedipus_sphinx.jpg The definition for Spaciousness is given in music and economy. For music: “Spaciousness or spatial impression is a term that was introduced in the […]
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 […]