Erickson and Gonzalez de Leon are architects who handle XXL size and program extremely agile and ra

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So 2012 will start with a look at some of the most interesting events and places small scale that I've had in the past year - personal discoveries that naturally might have been known for a long time many of you.
One of the words that would define good 2011-a for me was traveling - a lot of new and unknown distant places. small scale Here is a brief assessment of the three dozen cities that captured the most memory and my heart. My Lisbon Story (c gentle mind Wim Vendars) will remain in my heart with colorful, husked and lethargic Alfama district, where life seems to have stopped in the 60 amber, and a citadel of the Moorish Castle small scale at dusk San Jorge . Almost night I visited I found a wonderful place with interesting architecture - Archaeological Park complex San Jorge. Exposure draft is a Portuguese architect Huao Carrillo de Gràcia (João Luís Carrilho da Graça), which unfortunately did not have time to write a proper post, but that will honor a few words in architectural discoveries below.
Alfama day and night In addition to interesting and good contemporary architecture Lisbon lazy despite his appearance pozaspal is heady nightlife and the energy which brings you almost to the euphoria and can only be enjoyed every young person, so do not wait and watch the Lisbon Story , take a drive with fado and hold the plane.
One of the buildings marked the history of modern architecture is one of the most interesting buildings in Lisbon at all - Portuguese Pavilion of Expo '98 Alvaro Siza, you should see it, because small scale the spatial experience into concrete veil is amazing ... See the photos honors small scale buildings sizav site of Fernando Guerra
Rabat, Capital city of Morocco, was built surprise of the year has already written. Once architectural small scale destinations such as Porto showed almost disappointing for me, this is not tourist town proved a treasure trove for fans of modern architecture like me. This journey led me to some fun findings. Began to discover for themselves that Sofia lot like oriental capitals (Why?!), And even I think that pavite even quite nice shabby, very welcoming and made with more thought. I began to understand why a French friend that walking through the Women's market, small scale stubbornly claimed that Sofia looks like Damascus. I was not able to confirm for yourself resemblance to the Syrian capital, which was supposed to see in May, but alas I could not because of the Arab Spring, which in turn referred me to Jordan.
Also in Morocco found that so-called small scale third world countries (or those under development) small scale cause much more excitement and culture shock loading in me from Europe, whose cities are starting to look too uniform way.
In line with this thought most unlikely, of course, from all my trips for this year remains at Petra in Jordan generally. Even the situation in the Middle East is hot in Jordan reigns a relatively quiet, easy movement, people are friendly and being a woman and walking alone is not a problem. And you would be surprised how many things in Jordan will remind you of Bulgaria - from oriental mentality, through the kitchen, small scale to the abundance of Turkish words in the language, which we have borrowed and used today.
In terms of architecture this year for me was not so rich as I would have liked, but here's my little personal small scale discoveries about 2012th: t e are, as often happens to me, not only of modern architects, and of quite distant in time artists who are just now come across in the course of my work.
Since one of the topics that concern us in the office during the summer was that of monumental architecture, the first discovery was Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, which I wrote, followed by the incredible architecture of the Mexican architect Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, who never had time to say on the blog. Therefore now publish several photographs of projects in the hope that it will give you the desire small scale to see more.
Erickson and Gonzalez de Leon are architects who handle XXL size and program extremely agile and radical. In most cases, large buildings become nightmarish and inhuman failed experiments. These two architects create buildings, however, considering them as mini-cities with streets and squares in the form of building