GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

Cycling with the masters. GAM  Guillermo Aranda-Mena © 2016

Tribute to Zaha Hadid  (1950-2016). As much as Zaha's original language of architecture was much based on geometric fractals, floating shreds and deconstruction, in my view her later projects became more in-tune with a fictitious Brasilian neo-modernism. Yes, a language full of curves and exuberance.  Barvo,  Zaha! Encounters with Zaha: MX (1995) The first time I came across Zaha Hadid was on her 'paper architecture'. Possibly and article on AD.... I remember stumbling across a bunch of provocative images of her work while working on my own thesis project in Guadalajara, México. SP. Barcelona (1996) I got to seat at her lecture presentation during the  Union Internacional de Arquitectos (UIA Barcelona) conference 1996. At the time she only had built the Vitra Fire Station (1993) at Weil am Rehin, Germany and Moonsoon bar in Sapporo, Japan. Still, she was already renown for her design flair and exuberance. A a number of constructions commissions were ...

"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...