Soviet Yugoslavia Monuments

Abandoned Soviet Russian monuments form the 60's and 70's.The meaning are lost in the past, yet these stand as beautiful objects on former battlefields.

Flux within Blocks

Block Flux from Daniel Diaz on Vimeo.

Strange Fruit

The Three Faces of Eve

What the movie " The Three Faces of Eve" was based on. I woman will had MPD, with three distinct personalities, character, persons.

Spinoza

an affect that is called passion of the mind is a confused idea, by which the mind affirms of its body, or of some part of it, a greater of lesser force of existing than before...'

-Spinoza

'Promise of function[action]'

The ‘promise of function[action]’ within the works of architecture is what separates it from other art forms. It is not simply a ‘series of retinal images’ that we experience in meaningful architecture.

‘The object which surround my body reflect its possible action upon them’  

-Henri Bergson.

’ In such memory, the past is embodied in action. Rather than being contained separately somewhere in the mind or brain, it is actively an ingredient in the very bodily movement that accomplish a particular action,’

-Edward Caset

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The great work of modernity have forever halted the utopian time of the optimism and hope ; even after decades of trying fate they radiate an air of spring and hope. Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorion is heartbreaking in its radiant belief in the humane future and the success of the societal mission of architecture. Le Corbs’ Villa Savoye makes us believe in the union of reason and beauty, ethics and aesthetics. Through periods of dramatic and tragic social and cultural changes, Konstantin Melnikov’s Melnikov House in Moscow has stood as a silent witness of the will and utopian spirit that once created it.

_Pallasmaa 

Ghandi

Be the change you like to see in the world

-Ghandi

Facade Media Festival Projection

Facade_Projection from Daniel Diaz on Vimeo.

opposites.

By:RadioLAB

Clay Modeling in Thesis (W.I.P.)

Clay model + in-between notion + roof plan + Shadows

Maeklong Market and Train (Thailand)

Paco de Lucia

The digital camera

Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson from David Friedman on Vimeo.

Jorge Borges

Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

-JLB

How unclear are the edges of our daydreams?

Haptic images. Juhani

How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its alternating realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today!

-Juhani Pallasmaa

Alvar Aalto

...embrace the "betweenness" of opposites.

Gio Caminada and the local "recipe"

Something that I've learned in studio was the ideology of building's construction typology within context... the "local recipe" as Gion Caminada put it.
I feel as though I'm missing this important component in the construction of my thesis at the moment... I need to  study the tectonic's of my architecture in this light.


"STRICKBAU" typology

We Wait for the Snow

Fernando Pessoa

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

- Fernando Pessoa

Urban spaces...

whyte styles from chris woebken on Vimeo.