Icons. (Un)necessary architecture
There is only one Frank Gehry, which is good. But that one is necessary. (From time to time) we need icons, extravagances, gigantic ships...
Grapes and Garlic. Two stories of rural exodus
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck, 1939) and the Garlic Ballads (Yan Mo, 1988), are two novels written from two opposite sides of the...
Make the Wall great again
During Donald Trump's election campaign, and especially since he became President of the United States, his plan to build (to complete) a...
Design in high-rise. Zaha Hadid
I will start by saying that I like this building, confession not always easy in certain contexts when we talk about Zaha Hadid. This is...
The Lost Steps. Hong Kong Island
As I have acquired the habit of walking with the rhythm of my breathing, I am astonished to discover that men who surround me, go, come,...
Rooting for You. In Praise of Lights
And my darling, I'll be rooting for you. Hannah Reid (London Grammar) singing a cappella in the foreground of the videoclip (Rooting for...
Houses of cards
In the 8th chapter of the first season of House of Cards, we probably attend to the only moment in the whole season when Frank Underwood...
Hometown
Tudela is a city of about 35,000 inhabitants. Throughout its history, many cultures have passed by its streets: Visigoths, Moors, Jews,...
No man's land
One Sunday afternoon I decide, for no apparent reason, to get out of the vehicle. I do not know why I had never thought before about the...
Tying skyscrapers
Madness or poetry. In 1974, Philippe Petit had (and carried out with a funny team, "the World Trade Center Association") the brilliant...