Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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.
Lindsey and I were in the Mezanine suit, it was two stories and gorgeous.
This is a design on our ceiling.
Where we ate dinner the first night.
Bab Boujeloud gate
fin
Bab Boujeloud gate
Adrienne with the kittens at the Medersa Bou Inania and water clock
Mo-Mo our tourguide
Lindsey inside of a Dar that was being restored
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.