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

Demiurgos

“To Hegel, the process of thinking, which, under the name of ‘the Idea’, he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos (the creator, the maker) of the real world.... With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.” 

Karl Marx,
quoted here

Lyonel Feininger - Cathedral of Socialism - 1919

Cristopher Dresser - Plate XIX - ca. 1876
From his Studies in Design

Pablo Picasso - The guitarist - 1910