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. OrContinueContinue reading “Travelling Sketches (II) – A Praise to Cities”
Category Archives: City Scapes
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 westContinueContinue 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 makingContinueContinue 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 onContinueContinue 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 toContinueContinue reading “Thoughts on Retail Space V”
Oh, Istanbul!! (EN)
A small homage to beautiful Istanbul, through hand sketches and a few words.
Thoughts On Retail Space IV
BUILDING NEW STRATEGIES FOR RETAIL Building New Strategies – link Following our previous analysis, we believe that we can systematize the most important steps to be taken when moving forward with an investment for a new project, be it a new construction or refurbishment: I – WHERE TO INVEST? Cities are ever changing urban systems.ContinueContinue reading “Thoughts On Retail Space IV”
Oh, Istanbul!!
Uma pequena homenagem à bela Istambul, através de esquiços e algumas palavras.
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