Mountjuic, La playa and an awesome finally

La Sagrada y mi familia

We are Architecture VIPs
The holy family as designed by Gaudi over the entrance of the first facade to be built, the Nativity facade.

From the outside you really don't pay attention to the stained glass because of all the sculpture, but on the inside, your sensations are reversed and the glass gets the most attention.

One of the areas of the church (behind me) only has different types of white glass, as Gaudi specified.

The current architect of the Sagrada Familia (Jordi Bonet), who gave us a personal hard-hat tour. His father (Lluis Bonet) was an architect and a friend of Gaudi. He was explaining how they now use computers to help them cut the stone into the shapes that used to have to be cut by hand. Originaly they were made with plaster. The current architects use the same computer programs as Frank Gehry.

The Top of the columns that the architect was describing, they act like trees.

The group on the roof after we thought we were going to die in the lift on the way up

Matteo under a Parabolic curve being held in place.

The boys in the Parabolic arches.

Form-Active Structures

We are Architecture VIPs


The group on La Rambla waiting for our tour of the Enrique Morale/, the same firm that did the Natural Gas Building and the Santa Caterina Market.

There firm is in an old Gothic building, that they partially remodeled but kept true to what it was originally. The walls still have choice vertical strips of the original plaster and paint that was underneath them, but the rest of the walls are plastered white. They did the same to the exterior facade of the Santa Caterina Market that they remodeled but kept the original exterior facade that used to be for a monastery. They fixed up and plastered over some of the brick to the facade while leaving a couple horizontal strips around the whole building in their original state as a detail. A good way to modernize but not hide what is beautiful.


The Class in the model room of the firm with CeCe I wanted them to whip out some of the large scale models of the Natural Gas building, when the Architect described the building she told us how the shape reacted to the site, I guess Kevin and I were right, when we noticed that the form responded to the Arch de Triumph and the tree line in the Parc de la Ciutadella.

Plaza Real on the walk back from the firm, somewhere I'll miss.

Hawra posing in front of the restaurant that we ate dinner at our first night in Barcelona.

Some candy at the Bocaria... so good and just the right day to end our exhausting but awesome day of architectural enthusiasm.

They were wearing Fes...Feses?

Day 1...

Welcome to Morocco: Bienvenido a Moracco

Our hotel was amazing, we stayed in an authentic Moroccan Dar that was restored.
Lindsey and I were in the Mezanine suit, it was two stories and gorgeous.

http://www.dar-alandalous.com/

This is a design on our ceiling.

Even the toilet paper despencers were rediculously detailed.

Where we ate dinner the first night.


Bab Boujeloud gate

Adrienne with the kittens at the Medersa Bou Inania and water clock

Mokri palace

Embroidering on the street

Mo-Mo our tourguide

At the ceramics

Lindsey inside of a Dar that was being restored

Doster Trying to duck out of my picture.

In an old hamam (public bath), not exactly like the one we experienced with the local Moroccan women, something I'll never forget.


Middle Atlas Mountains

Bye Africa, I'll miss you

fin