The Trinity Church college library, in Cambridge, designed by Christopher Wren, is described in “The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge”, by Robert Willis and John Willis Clark. In this book we can see both all of his drawings and a brief description, by his own pen or dictated. There are 6 drawings.
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What we, in fairly developed countries (at least when dealing with urbanization), know as “countryside” and relate with nature, virginity, pureness, is nothing but a pure creation of we, humans. The shaping of the earth has been a continous process since ages, but because of some strange kind of mental disease, we insist on […]
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Since the Nintendo Wii upcoming, I’ve been thinking a lot on changing paradigms. We actually don’t know whether the Wii revolutionary command will be a standard in years to follow, but few things are as amusing to me as trying to foresee the future of culture.
The digital revolution is evident in almost any aspect of manufacturing or design. As an architect, by example, I cannot even imagine to draw projects by hand again, neither do can imagine abbandoning the formal possibilities only available with the aid of computers. But there is, at least one; discipline where the digital influence has […]
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A few years ago (and, I must admit, still sometimes today), whenever I saw something, and then shared that experience with someone, a glimpse of doubt passed in front of me: did that person saw the same that I did?
With this quote, Dr. Frankenstein celebrated the fact that his creation worked out. The fact that things actually move is a symptom of life: everything in Nature is moving, even inanimated things (the clouds, the sea). And the fact that things don’t move, at least without prior stimulation, is a symptom of something dead (a […]
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A machine, a computer machine, a full working computer machine where to work and connect to the internet, that works like Lego bricks used to work? I mean, where you can exchange every piece for any other, easily?
As online shopping keeps on growing, there’s a service that grows up side by side: courier. We can shop, analize the competition, alternatives etc., but still there’s someone who must drive a car/plane/ship/bike to bring the product to our houses.