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Edificio projetado por Joseph Gire, data 1937, 22 andares, localizado na Praça Maua, Rio / Building projected by Joseph Gire, Year of Built 1937, ubicated at the Maua square in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Mr Gire also did the project of the famous Copabana Palace Hotel at same period.
Explored on October 24, 2013
Capileira, Andalusia, Spain.
Technical data: Nikon D800 | Nikkor AF-S 14-24 mm f/2.8G ED at 22mm | Induro AT213 tripod + BHL2 ballhead.
1/200s | f/8 | ISO 100.
Processing: Lightroom 5 | Photoshop CS6 | Nik Sharpener Pro 3 | Nik Silver Efex Pro 2.
In search for inspiration to sort out the questions that arise in the work of an architect, we are often drawn to the geniuses of our time and their latest creations. Even though that approach might have proved useful and cost-effective in most cases, I am a big believer in looking for our sources a bit further back in time.
Las Alpujarras, an otherwise wild territory of hills and valleys on the Southern foothills of Sierra Nevada that extends over the provinces of Granada and Almeria (Spain), saw its first settlers in the 8th century. The smart engineering work of those people, who channeled the water from the abounding streams in the area to villages and terraced plots, made it possible the development of an incipient economy based on the cultivation of Mediterranean crops. Most of the villages were established in the steepest places within this territory, so as to dedicate the little flat land available for cultivation.
Out of necessity, those pioneers developed their own construction techniques to build small, flat-roofed houses more akin to the styles found in Northern Africa and some areas of the Middle East, than to those accustomed in Europe. The absence of any sort of urban planning legislation gave rise to an actual maze of narrow, winding streets punctuated with passages like this one that can be found in Capileira. Nowhere more than here does form follow function, the core principle of modern architecture.
I was lucky enough to enjoy the first years of my life in Laroles, a small village in Las Alpujarras similar to that depicted here. If you want to read more about this region in the eyes of a stranger coming to live here, I highly recommend you head over Chris Stewart's autobiographic novel Driving Over Lemons.
2015 | Tribute to 50 years of Le Corbusier’s death
(October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965)
Unité d'habitation (1952), Marseille, France
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Well, actually it's a bit more than half a circle, but still.
Taken in Santa Maria del Mar Cathedral in Barcelona.
This is the Old Pickens County Jail in Jasper, Georgia. The historical marker in front of the building states: "This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two-story log building. Dr. William B. Tate urged the construction of the jail as a grand juror and on two Citizens Committees. The architects were J. W. Coluke and Co.; contractors were William L. Landrum and Son. The steel work was installed by the Pauly Jail Co. of St. Louis, Mo., specifically by Luthor Cartwright, who while here married and, eventually settled in Jasper. He later supervised construction of the pink marble mansion in Tate. The work on the front of the jail was done by Lee W. Prather, a local stone worker, using marble from the Delaware Quarry at nearby Marble Hill. The Delaware Quarry was opened c. 1840 by pioneer marble entrepreneur Henry Fitzsimmons."
"The jail still has a gallows (non-functioning) although no one was ever executed on this device. The most regular residents of the jail were the sheriffs and their families, who lived here rent free. The jail was ordered closed by a federal court order in 1980. The well in the rear, now filled in, provided water for the hundreds of people who came to Jasper for signing conventions."