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Showing posts with label Auguste Perret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auguste Perret. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Corporeal, Material Nature

Aisthesis is the sensory experience of perception. The original field of aesthetics is not art but reality--corporeal, material nature.” 

Cornelis Van Eesteren and Theo Van Doesburg - University Hall - 1923


Hans Van Der Laan - Abdij Roosenberg Waasmunster - East Flander - 1975


Auguste Perret - St Joseph Church - Le Havre - 1951 -  By Alexandra Polyakova

Thursday, 16 October 2014

Beautiful Ruins


"Architecture, it's what makes beautiful ruins"
Auguste Perret
quoted in Jean Kerisel - Pierres et hommes - 2005


Tullio Crali - Cityscape - 1939

Erich Kettelhut - Sketch for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis - 1927


Edmond Van Dooren - City with Machines - ca 1930