Jihad

"The image of the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Enlightenment, 

Joseph Goebbels, encouraging Mies van de Rohe to tender for prestigious 

regime projects encourages us to 'revisit' the whole subject of Nazism's 

famed jihad against modernism."
Roger Griffin, Modernism and Fascism, The Sense of Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler, 2007

 Mies van der Rohe - Reischsbank Proposal - 1933

Walter Gropius - Reichsbank Proposal - 1933

Heinrich Wolff - Reichsbank - 1934 - by Gary Catchen

Inventing God

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"

Voltaire, Response to the 'Three Impostors'. 1768

Annie Besant & Charles W. Leadbeater - Plate from 'Thought Forms' - 1902

Naum Gabo - Linear Construction - 1942/43

My Landscape

"People are my landscape"

Isaiah Berlin

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Oreads - 1902

Horace Bristol - Melee in Shinto Temple, New Year's Day - Japan - 1946

Collective Memory

“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, 

and like memory it is associated with objects and places. 

The city is the locus of the collective memory.” 

Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, 1982

Emmanuel Jablonski - Cropping Buildings - 2012 - via r. cruz niemiec

Graphical representation of the idealized human diploid karyotype - National Human Genome Research Institute - via wikipedia

Burgoyne Diller - Composition - 1941

Frozen Music

"Architecture in general is frozen music"
Friedrich Von Schelling, Philosophy of Art, 1802

Mies Van der Rohe - Barcelonna Pavillon - 1928/29

Luis Barragan and Andre Casillas - Stable, Horse pool and House - 1967/69 -

 by Renee Burri

Ibarra Rosano Design Architects - Winter Residence - 2005 - 
by Bill Timmerman

 Niall McLaughlin Architect - House at Goleen - 

via Snake Ranch