The roof of the city
Oct. 22nd, 2006 12:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusThis is the rooftop of Casa Mila ("La Pedrera") by Antoni Gaudi, built between 1906 and 1912. Up here, apart from great views out over Barcelona (and Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral in the distance), you also glimpse a parallel world: a world where adults are as curious, imaginative and playful as children (and have the technical skill to pull it off).
It isn't entirely whimsical, though; these strange forms disguise functional objects like stairheads, chimneys and ventilation shafts.
It isn't entirely whimsical, though; these strange forms disguise functional objects like stairheads, chimneys and ventilation shafts.
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Date: 2006-10-21 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 05:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 06:48 pm (UTC)At first glance they have nothing in common;the whimsical, storybook conception of Casa Milá and the Palacio Güell at odds with the purity of Barragan's Capuchinas Chapel and his own house,but the connection is clear:out-of-this-world mystics-poets,imbued in a very deep sixteenth century Catholicism (San Juan de la Cruz,Santa Teresa de Jesus.)
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Date: 2006-10-21 09:59 pm (UTC)Whimsy follows function.
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Date: 2006-10-21 11:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-21 11:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-22 12:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-22 07:00 am (UTC)the passenger. antonioni. hello?
lovely
Date: 2006-10-22 07:41 am (UTC)it was beautiful.
i felt it.
i miss it.
it was real.
oh spain.
save me from this hell.
Re: lovely
Date: 2006-10-23 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-23 09:05 pm (UTC)