THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

The Euclidean display and overall design of a room inside the MIT museum, Cambridge. Personal archives, 2024 Inside the MIT museum, Cambridge. See how the free standing displays have the ...

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  Binary aerial picture of an area of Downton Buenos Aires Binary aerial picture of a the historical sector of Downtown Boston There are many publications about the analysis of the Fract...

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  Approaching OCMA, Costa Mesa, CA. NOTE: All pictures belong to my personal archives, please do not reproduce-share without my permission. I have been a visitor of the Orange County Muse...

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Many years ago, one of my posts was about people with compulsive behavior keeping lots of staff inside and around their homes. I'm not a psychologist and I saw this from the point of view of...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2020/05/thoughts-about-hoarders.html

Un espacio vacante con cañerías y conexiones expuestas. Las banquinas de concreto deben ser demolidas. Archivos personales. Este post lo escribo fundamentalmente para la gente que desea ...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2019/01/abriendo-un-nuevo-negocio-que-se.html

A retail with exposed pipes and plumbing connections. Concrete curbs to be demolished. Personal archives I am writing this post mostly for people who decide to lease their first retail t...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2018/12/opening-business-what-is-needed-for.html

Un cerramiento precario en un segundo piso, en montaña. Archivos personales Una legalización de obras o trabajos de construcción (ilegales) no permitidas, significa presentar planos de...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2018/11/que-es-una-legalizacion-de-obras.html

Precarious enclosure in a second story, hill side. Personal archives. A legalization of (illegal) non permitted structures or construction works means to submit architectural, energy plan...

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A common problem: the side wall and the eave are very close to the property line. A modification of the eave to be 1 hr fire rate is needed and the 1 hr fire rate assembly for the wall must ...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-is-garage-conversion-into-adu.html

Un problema habitual: la cercanía de la pared del garage y el alero hacia el vecino. Una modificación del alero es necesaria y se debe probar que la pared lateral es una hora contra fuego....

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  I am always thinking of three dimension or upgrading 2D to 3D spatiality.  This is a natural habit for an architect´s profession and I find it amusing when I pass a plain 2D to 3D thank...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2017/03/upgrading-spatiality-from-2d-plain.html

  Paying attention to details, this standard wire mesh looks very interesting with its shadows against a warning sign. Geometric patterns are mixed together and produce this enhanced view o...

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   This is the art of Hwang Seon Tae, it's like an acrylic panel with a dull grey architectural composition. A picture has to be taken in order to see the shadows and the 3D image. I took ...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2017/02/arts-and-3d-architecture.html

  I came across a young artist, Eric, at the local park. He had extended a wrinkled plastic film between two pine trees to paint a blueish graffiti, which he was going to trash later on. I ...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2017/02/when-landscape-is-incorporated-to-arts.html

  I've been at the Shipley Nature Center , which has been opened in 1974 with the aim of educating children on how was California (I should say Southern) 100 years ago. There are several ...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-intriguing-poetics-of-inside.html

   I love the way these tridrimensional metal models have been done, somehow they look 2D, depending on the point of view, or even 3D renders, but they are mass models attached to one sing...

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  As the title says, I´m creating landscapes with mountains that I create taking the advantage of reflections with different sources of color on Aluminum foil. The exercise, apart from h...

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  From SCULPTURE IN CIVIC CENTER PARK EXHIBITION : ¨In August 2013, the Newport Beach City Council authorized the City Arts Commission and City staff to implement a temporary sculpture ...

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  Plastic shutters unusual perspectives with the sun of 7.30 AM through them. Or how to look at banal architectural objects from an artistic point of view.   Perspectivas inusuales d...

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  Sacred Realms: Temple Murals by Shashi Dhoj Tulachan From the Gayle and Edward P. Roski Collection. I´ve been enjoying this great exhibition today at the BOWERS MUSEUM in Santa Ana. ...

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Murdy Park is ill famed in the city of Huntington Beach. Being it a beautiful park with a Sports Center, sometimes gangs or addicts gather under the trees, maybe because this area of trees i...

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Just in front of the engineers' office, there has been civil works of parkings and drainages. This drainage has no slope and it's blocked as well. One of the engineers is always complaining ...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2015/04/textures-in-water-channel.html

I had to meet a client today and he was late. I was waiting for him at the parking lot of a warehouse, the place was empty and there was nothing interesting to see, except for a single yello...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2015/03/tree-bark-with-ancient-or-futuristic.html

It is well understood that architecture is not interior decor. Though, there are lots of architects who dedicate to the design of furniture, which at last are part of the architecture. I´...

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-shadow-of-chair-la-sombra-de-una.html

My pictures of the interesting textures of old bricks in combination with wood and cement. Taken at the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, December 16th 2014.

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