Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain album (with Gil Evans conduction) is a superb blend of symphonic and jazz arrangements mainly inspired by Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. A true work of fusion between modernity and classicism, expressing how the European folk tradition and jazz can marry in a sublime way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSS5p9BdNGU SEGOVIA, Alcazar de Segovia,Continue reading "Sketches of Spain"
Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities
From small details to broader perspectives, drawing the city can easily become an addiction for architects. Understanding how men’s ultimate habitat developed and took over the natural territory is something almost irresistible. How the oldest cities seem to grow organically, in permanent adaptation to physical conditions and with an exponential empirical method of expansion. OrContinue reading "Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities"
Travelling Sketches (I) – Intimate Mappings
As I pull up from the shelves some of my old sketch books and start flipping the pages, inevitably my mind starts to travel back to all those places and states of mind. That’s a good thing, I think to myself, even a two minute sketch can bring so many memories! That is the wholeContinue reading "Travelling Sketches (I) – Intimate Mappings"
Covid Airports – A Canvas for Otherness
Disruption Until the Covid-19 crisis, airports were a point of convergence. Symbols and manifestations of globalization. They were places where thousands of people would gather in utter ignorance of each other’s presence. With the ‘’new normality’’, there is a timid approximation to that same state of things. The reality is that coming back to anContinue reading "Covid Airports – A Canvas for Otherness"
Occidentalisms in Ottoman Architecture
Contaminations If in many western countries Orientalism became fashionable during the XVIII and XIX centuries, in the Ottoman Empire a similar process also happened, in the oposite direction. Through the centuries, the Ottoman architecture assimilated and added many influences to its own principles. In these two centuries, it was the winds blowing from the westContinue reading "Occidentalisms in Ottoman Architecture"
Los Hombres Libres
El trabajo de Luis Esteban Polo se construye sobretodo en el filo de lo corpóreo y lo intangible, entre muros que parecen cielos o edificios que se deshacen en nubes.
Troy and Assos – Placemaking, in the past
Ramblings through History and Learning from the Classics.
El Cuaderno de Viajes (II)
Second Take This time, on the second article dedicated to Miguel Garcia's travelling sketches, he presents us, with the same accute eye and gifted hand, his drawings using color. Hand sketchers tend to use simple black pens to make their drawings. Pilot pens or markers will do, in most ocasions. The time spent on makingContinue reading "El Cuaderno de Viajes (II)"
El Cuaderno de Viajes (I)
Introducing Miguel I first met Miguel Garcia back in 2006, when I started working for a large international design firm in Madrid where, for my fortune, Miguel was also working. I was coming from a small ''boutique'' sized design practice, developing residential projects and making public competitions. I had only six years of experience onContinue reading "El Cuaderno de Viajes (I)"
Thoughts on Retail Space V
SHOPPING AS AN EVENT As already addressed in our previous articles, the act of shopping, is drifting to a more complex experience then in the previous years. Surprise effect and spontaneity seem to have become crucial to the success of retail. Something part of the new Pop-Up culture, we could say. It makes sense toContinue reading "Thoughts on Retail Space V"
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