GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

"Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature". Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Paris, France 1796-1875) House for my friend James Harley. The location is in Phillip Island, Australia. A beautiful wild island with unique flora and fauna. The project was for a owner-builder and started with the enclosure of the lower level of an 1970's home. The lower (or ground) level eventually became the living/study area for the home, Guillermo Aranda-Mena   Guillermo Aranda-Mena © 2014 

... un encuentro de titanes. Dibujando paralelos. "To calculate the exact cost to Euskadi taxpayers of the Bilbao Guggenheim is complicated, or perhaps the leadership wants it to be complicated. The figure usually mentioned is $100 million, which is equal to $56 US Dlls for each citizen. After paying for the building the Basques also agreed to pay the Guggenheim for using the Guggenheim name on the building. Furthermore, the Guggenheim Foundation chooses the art for the Bilbao museum. The survey of twentieth-century art that made up the initial exhibit seemed like leftovers from the Guggenheim warehouse." "The museum, with the exception of a few Chillida pieces, pays no homage to Basque art. Even Picasso's geat tribut to Basque suffering,  Guernica,  was not made available for the opening. Officials at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, where it hangs, said that it could not be moved because it was too delicate for the journey. But many sp...

...  paesaggio e architettura insieme, sospeso a tempo e lo spazio. Vivo tramite le più giovani generazioni. Un viaggio a piede e treno (cuasi como un pelegrinage ) per Mantova, Milano, Roma, Assisi, Todi, Ferrara e Bologna - forse ll vero percorso di la civilizzazione occidentale. Un incontro con il agora, il spazio vuoto, la nebbia, il percorso ortogonale e il medievale, il svilupo dal tempo sopra la luminosità e l'ombra, il arco como generatore di forma urbana. Il vecchi edifici di mattone, la nuova architettura di vetro... la giovani vita dopo di la ricostruzione del tessuto urbano. Tutto per enfatizzare la esistenza e guidare il futuro. Buon 2016, Guillermo Guillermo Aranda-Mena © 2016