My Nightmare Yields

“Unprincipled men tried to malign our time. Always we had to look back, always we had to be modelled on another time. But my nightmare yields. Yes, our time is beautiful. So beautiful, that I don’t want to live in another.”
Adolf Loos, quoted here

Farkas Molnar - The red cube - 1923

via Ross Wolfe

Gloria Freedman - Le Carré Rouge - 1997

Luis Barragan - Casa Gilardi - 1976

photography by Kim Zwarts, 1988

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

Traffic

"On that 1st of October, 1924, I was assisting in the titanic rebirth of a new phenomenon... traffic."

Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow. 1924, quoted in All That is Solid Melts into Air, Marshall Berman, 1982

Cornelis Van Eesteren - Schematic representation of the optimal relationship between skyscrapers and traffic - 1926

Le Corbusier - La Cité Radieuse - 1924

Emilio Ambasz - Cooperative of a Mexican-American grape growers in California - 1979