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By Art and Architecture, mainly on Jun 16, 2017 in: architecture, literature
In my Gap Year programme abroad in 1966, there were 13 English speakers and 110 Spanish speakers, so I had to learn enough Spanish to survive. And quickly! The reward would be that eventually I could travel around South America and would be shown the...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Jun 9, 2017 in: architecture, family, literature
Edith Newbold Jones (b1862) grew up in a privileged Massachusetts society that barred women from achieving anything other than a suitable marriage. Her education was limited since she never went to a proper school or university, an...
By Aref-Adib on May 31, 2017 in: Architecture
Today's https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-zaha-hadid">Google Doodle suggests Architect Zaha Hadid had nose-twitching magic powers....
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Apr 14, 2017 in: architecture
By 1932, during the Great Depression, at least one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed. When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he needed to strengthen the economy ..and provide jobs and relief to the nation’s working fa...
By The Centre of the World on Mar 29, 2017 in: Photographs, architecture, photography
Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. From Italo Calvino’s Invisible Ci...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Mar 21, 2017 in: architecture
The old structures along Barcelona’s Passeig de Garcia were made of wood since they were under the constant threat of demolition by government order. A military law was in force that prohibited any structure from being built outside the cit...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Feb 20, 2017 in: architecture, paintings
From the time my late parents retired at 60, until their 85th birthday, they went on a different cruise each year that was filled with music, literature, art, architecture or history. Thank you to Jeremy Seal for beautifully writing up one of the tri...