THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

                           Musical homage and offerings to a dead musician. Santa Ana, CA, November 2024. Photo by Myriam Mahiques  1.      ...

Let us remember some definitions of "ethereal:" Of or relating to the regions beyond the earth celestial, heavenly ...

Photo by Joe Mendel I've been reading Michael J. Crosbie's experience in Chichen Itza and I can imagine his feelings, though,...

The Graeae´s eye. El ojo de las brujas grises. Pintura digital de Myriam B. Mahiques I´ve begun reading a very interesting book, ¨The Visua...

Portsmouth flood. From metro.co.UK Too much has been said about cities and memories. But to relate them to weather's memories, it's...

A sensual Victorian interior. From eureka-california.com I´ve read The Picture of Dorian Gray many years ago, and I should read it again un...

The Storming of the Bastille. Watercolor painting. 1789. By Jean Pierre Houël. Wikipedia.org The notion of a respect for cultural heritage,...

¨THE Science of Architecture, followed out to its full extent, is one of the noblest of those which have reference only to the creations of...

Forest. Image from educacion2.com ¨The problem of how environment and feeling are related comes to a head with the question, can a sense of...

Palmanova Consecration cross, Norfolk, UK. The city is a place, a center of meaning, par ecellence. It has many highly visible symbols. More...

Japanese house surrounded by nature. How great it must smell! Picture from arch-sc.com Architecture and senses. Here is another example, not...

Eye. Digital painting by Myriam B. Mahiques ¨In Lucien Febvre´s view: ¨The sixteenth century did not see first: it heard and smelled, it sni...

Image from  archiseek.com I began reading ¨Dubliners¨ by James Joyce, and would like to share with you the first paragraph, where the main y...

El texto que sigue, pertenece al excelente artículo del Dr. Adolfo Vasquez Rocca ¨ EL VÉRTIGO DE LA SOBREMODERNIDAD; CIUDADES DEL ANONIMATO ...

Abkhazia. Picture by Sergei Loiko Georgian refuges in Abkhazia. Picture by Sergei Loiko. When I posted the abandoned houses´ pictures, I com...