Friday, January 30, 2009

Frank Gehry
is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction, beyond the product he delivers. His best-known works include the titanium-covered
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Experience Music Project in Seattle, Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic, and his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture," a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.
Gehry’s style at times seems unfinished or even crude, but his work is consistent with the California ‘funk’ art movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, which featured the use of inexpensive found objects and non-traditional media such as clay to make serious art. Gehry has been called ‘the apostle of chain-link fencing and corrugated metal siding‘ (B. Adams). However, a retrospective exhibit at the Whitney Museum (New York) in 1988 revealed that he is also a sophisticated classical artist, who knows European art history and contemporary sculpture and painting.



















Images and info via: www.wikipedia.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The architects I study in college

Frank Lloyd Wright was always the first one on the list, (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) He was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, promoted organic architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home. His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, hotels, and museums. Wright also often designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. His style an architecture that evolves naturally out of the context, most importantly for him the relationship between the site and the building and the needs of the client.
Wright was recognized in 1991 by the
American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time".
He is mostly famous for Fallingwater

Monday, January 26, 2009

Christian Lacroix Paris Apartment

Christian Lacroix is selling his seventeenth-century apartment in the Parisian neighborhood, Le Marais and if I had $2.6 million dollars I would buy it a second. He is not one of my favorite designers but I do admire his work. The apartment is 2,150-square-foot. In addition to a 200 square-foot courtyard, the apartment has four bedrooms, a mezzanine library and recently renovated bathrooms and kitchen.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Natural Inspiration












You can have your furniture custom made from any of the carpentry shops along the road to "El Puerto"at very low prices compared to the above.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

getting back on track

to what this blog is about! This picture left me breathless...
One of the first churches in the country. It's construction ended at the beginning of the 1600 and it was a respond from the spanish conquistadors coming from Guatemala due to the large number of Indians who inhabited the area and with the pourpose of catechize. It was founded around a city, right next to the Chortis indigenous settlements . Years later, the city was destroyed due to a hurracane that overflowded surrounding the river and then the people decided to move above in Metapán. Today the locals call it "La Portada" and that is only because the facade was built with Calicanto and the rest with mud and bajareque.

Foto y texto gracias a Mario Pleitez y flickr.com via http://www.skyscrapercity.com posted by Tacuba

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A little bit of New Year's Resolutions..

My favorite Illustrator is Sujean from the Daily Candy I just love her work! so here is my little list of my New Year's resolutions:


A little bit more of this...
A little bit more going out...
a little bit more traveling...

A little bit more sleeping...

A little bit more styling...
A little bit more of being Sassy & Nice... A little bit of making my husband help more around the house...
A little bit more of taking care of my Mr. Mostacho...
A little bit more cooking...
and a little less eating...a little bit more exercise...
so I can fit into
a little bikini...

for a little more chilling...

And a little bit of preparing for a more populated future...

Back & Better

Back from Vacation and starting the Year Better Than EveR!