POSTALES INVENTADAS: y: 1966

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2309. St. Catherine's College. Oxford. Oxfordshire. Dining Hall.

Querida Luz,

"La filosofía arquitectónica se puede convertir con

demasiada facilidad en algo a lo que uno se apega

para asegurar su propia visión, una almohadilla en

la que se puede dormir perfectamente."

(Arne Jacobsen)

Besos,

2272. Dipoli. Otaniemi.

Dear Aino,

"Dipoli was an exciting and wonderful project, which

generated new ideas all the time, although there were

many great ideas that could not eventually be

realized."(Raili Pietilä)

Sincerely,

2219. Technological University Delft. Auditorium

Dear Jan,

"Functionalism is a humanism."

(Johannes Van den Broek)

Happy new year.

Dear Martti,

The TKY 2 student dormitory building is the only
residential building built by Aalto in Otaniemi.
The V-shaped building includes some lessons learned
from the 1948 MIT Baker House dormitory such as the
curved wall and the vestibule space lit by cylindrical
roof lights.

Regards,

R

1965. Tampere Kaleva Church

Dear Rem,

"Pietilä´s avant-garde was, and is, more

of a philosophical or spiritual quality than

something merely connected to the

architectural forms" (Kaisa Broner)

Sincerely,

1944. Otaniemi, Suomi-Finland

Dear Juhani,

"We should work for simple, good, undecorated
things" (Alvar Aalto)
An aerial view of the Otaniemi Technical

University still under construction.

Best regards,
R

1912. Puebla de Vicar, Almeria

Querida Cristina,

"Que la objetiva virtualidad del arte le llegue al

hombre a su espacio vital y al utensilio. Que se sienta

bien y se haga mejor. Que la arquitectura le proteja

de la intemperie y le alivie de las fuerzas oscuras que

ensombrecen el mundo"
(José Luis Fernández del Amo)

Besos,
R

1890. Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. Chandigarh

Dear Jan,

"The purpose of construction is to make things hold

together; of architecture to move us" (Le Corbusier)

Cheers,

1870. Archigram. Drive-in House

Dear Ron,

"You are inventing a life and the

architecture allows you to do it"

(Michael Webb)

Sincerely,

1784. Group 1 Building, SMTI / University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA

Dear Peter,

"An architect is a man concerned with building meaningfully. As opposed to someone who is interested

in building efficiently, or sometimes even beautifully, or as opposed to the whole engineering aspects of building, as opposed to adorning buildings, as opposed to all the ramifications that consultants get into. We often

apologize for being interested in meaningful buildings, and tend to talk the language of the master builder, or the engineer, or the efficiency expert, or 25 other experts. But we do our profession an injustice in that way." (Paul Rudolph)

Best,
R

1633. Kalevan kirkko

Dear Sybille,

Tampere will be a nice place to visit one summer.

The Kaleva and Hervanta parishes by the Pietiläs, or

the Liehlati church by Turunen will be a good way

to start exploring the city.

Best,
R

1618. St. Catherine's College, Oxford

Dear Berta,

(...)
If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
(...)

(T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding)

Best,
Rafael

1486. Otaniemi. Institute of Technology

Dear Timo,

"The very essence of architecture consists of a variety

and development reminiscent of natural organic life.

This is the only true style in architecture"

(Alvar Aalto)

Respectfully,
R

1472. La Manga. Costa Cálida

Estimada Victoria,

"Los elementos arquitectónicos que formarán la

nueva ciudad estarán formados por una serie, poco

numerosa, de estructuras sistematizadas"

(Antonio Bonet Castellana)

En primer término el club náutico Dos Mares,

proyectado por Antonio Bonet y acabado en 1966.

Sigo admirando la primorosa obra de su padre.

R

1444. Lotus-shaped Gandhi Bhawan, Chandigarh

Dear Charles,

"Convenience, subsistence, these are not solutions...
We should have struggled for the conditions of civilization"
(Pierre Jeanneret)

Respectful,
R

1289. Klippan. St. Petri Kyrka

Dear Erik,

"A renowned architect has built here a hallowed room
of majestic weight" (Bishop Martin Lindström)

Regards,
R

1236. Supreme Court of Justice, San Jose, Costa Rica

Querido Carlos,

"Era mejor decirlo, confesarlo de una vez, sin rodeos, bajo
el recogimiento de aquella gran catedral"
(Carlos Salazar- La Montaña. Cuentos de Angustias y
Paisajes)

Saludos,
R

1205. Edificio Banco de Guatemala, Guatemala

Querido Juan Carlos,

Cuerpo volcado
sobre sombra
Toma forma de sí.
Se abre
hacia su vértice.
Tendido.
Escribo sobre cuerpo.
Número,
fracción.
Graffito el siete.
Escribo,
escribes sobre sombra, sobre cuerpo, donde
viene la luz a requerirte oscura.

(Escritpura sobre cos)
(Jose Angel Valente-Al dios del lugar)

Un abrazo,
R

1153. Suomi Kalevan Kirkko

Querida Zenobia,

(...)
La mano con la luz
sobre el alma con forma.
Melodía del tacto,
eternidad redonda.

(Juan Ramón Jiménez, Redondez)

Agradecido,
R

1141. Joao Pessoa, Brasil. Hotel Tambaú

Estimado Eduardo,

"La arquitectura es la forma más sencilla de articular el
tiempo y el espacio, de modular la realidad, de hacer
soñar." (Gilles Ivain)

Con todo mi afecto,
R