We are back at the keyboards.....
We are back at the keyboards after a two week vacation and several meetings with our new business partner to plan the future of arcspace.
You can again look forward to our weekly features and news items and very soon to new additions to our menu and more detailed information from our new Building Product Editor, Malene Anthon.
Starting the week we are featuring the Guangzhou Gymnasium by Paul Andreu, the Bordeaux Law Courts by Richard Rogers Partnership and the design for the Mori Museum in Tokyo by Gluckman Mayner Architects. Later this week “The Architect’s Studio” will feature Danish architect Henning Larsen’s sketches.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Thought it fitting to pass through Hall F, Terminal 2 at Charles de Gaulle Airport also designed by Paul Andreu.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Casa Malaparte
The nice thing about working in cyber space is that you can combine work with pleasure. I was lucky to be vacationing on a boat in Capri and to visit the Malaparte house again. This brought to mind architect and designer Michael McDonough’s wonderful book Malaparte: A House like Me. The book, published by Clarkson Potter, is a scrapbook of essays, sketches, drawings and photos by renowned Italian photographer Mimmo Jodice, about Capri's mysterious Casa Malaparte; one of the twentieth century's most intriguing houses. Casa Malaparte, which was in a state of ruin by the 1960’s (Malaparte died in 1957), has been restored, and is now organized as a cultural foundation, and used for seminars and cultural events.
Next week we will be adding the book Malaparte: A House like Me to our Bookcase and a our new “The Camera” exhibition will be with Michael Moran’s photographs of Philip Johnson’s house.
We also have a new project from T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn Bhd in Malaysia, news from the Tate Britain and a lot more....
Being mobile and in the area we decided to visit Pompeii, the town which was buried in 79 AD in one of the most disastrous volcanic eruptions in history. The extensive and varied ruins of the dead city evoke, on a grand scale, a Roman city at the time of the Empire.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
Columns and porticoes at Pompeii
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
A wall painting in the wealthy Vettii brother’s house, the most lavish in town, depicting Pentheus slain by the Bacchants and two architectural drawings.
We also visited Paestum; one of Italy’s most important archeological sites. The initial settlement was an ancient Greek colony founded around 600 BC under the name Poseidonia by colonists from Sybaris. Each temple at Paestum was built in honor of a deity. Around the year 400 BC the city fell to a local tribe, the Lucanians. It became Roman in the year 273 BC but began to decline towards the end of the Empire.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
The Temple of Ceres was dedicated to Athena; the goddess of Wisdom and Art. Built around 500 BC in early Doric and Ionic style the temple retain 34 columns and parts of its pediments. The capital on an Ionic column is more elegant and rests on a base formed by a square block.
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
The Basilica, built around 550 BC in early Doric style, is the oldest temple at Paestum. The temple was dedicated to Hera (Juno); the Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood
Photo: Kirsten Kiser
The Temple of Poseidon (Neptune), built around 450 BC in classical Doric style like the Parthenon, was also dedicated to Hera. In the background the Basilica.
August 16, 2001
