Hoy os presento a este magnífico dibujante y humorista, a través de dos de sus viñetas en las que refleja su particular visión de la ciudad.
Más información sobre Saul Steinberg:
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October 8, 2009
Situación del mercado en las inmediaciones de la Plaza Mayor de Madrid
A principios de Junio se puso de nuevo en funcionamiento el mercado de San Miguel de Madrid, un edificio que destaca no sólo por su arquitectura singular sino por la escala compacta, adecuada a las condiciones de su enclave en el casco histórico de Madrid…
October 7, 2009
In a recent visit to Paris, I bought a French trade magazine that made references to “eco-neighbourhoods” built in northern Europe. Some, like BedZED, are already commented on this blog. Others were a total discovery for me. It is necessary disseminating these performances, some very good, so we can learn from these experiences. For a neighbourhood to convert into an “eco-district”, sometimes you only need a politician illuminated with appropriate buzzwords. Other times it is a collective work which has required joint efforts on the part of the public initiative, private, and of course some architects have responded to these concerns.
July 27, 2009
“Now, the first thing we need to recognize is that this is not just a time of challenge for America’s cities; it’s also a time of great change. Even as we’ve seen many of our central cities continuing to grow in recent years, we’ve seen their suburbs and exurbs grow roughly twice as fast — that spreads homes and jobs and businesses to a broader geographic area. And this transformation is creating new pressures and problems”.
“So what’s needed now is a new, imaginative, bold vision tailored to this reality that brings opportunity to every corner of our growing metropolitan areas” (Obama)
July 5, 2009
The Clinton Climate Initiative, from the William J. Clinton Foundation, has decided to promote 16 good practices in sustainable urban growth. Everybody is making list, as Forbes, but they don’t present very well the meaning of thist list. Through the website, we can see that the Initiative push the urban regeneration and the improvement of green energy as goals to reach better cities and better life’s. From this first post, our aim is communicate information about those projects, receive comments from our community and in two weeks offer a critical overview and some strategic keys to understand why some of the presented projects are in this list, and why some have no reasons. I hope we will generate some group of discussion on the present of our cities and some positive criticism on the ways to improve them.
April 16, 2009
“(un)photographed Spain”
Category: castellano+ city
El city lab SESEABLE del MIT ha producido un vídeo de la visualización de fotos georeferenciadas de Flickr. El vídeo cubre un periodo de un año y se desarrolla en la península ibérica.
March 12, 2009
Dongtang Eco-city
Entrevista de Piet Vollard a John Roberts, director de Arup Energy. He seleccionado lo que me ha resultado más interesante y lo he clasificado en tres temas. Lo mas valioso de esta entrevista es que las reflexiones están basadas en experiencias reales de ciudades sostenibles, como Dubai Waterfront y la ciudad de Dongtang cerca de Shanghai. Muy interesante lo que comenta sobre cambiar el impuesto sobre la renta por uno basado en el consumo de carbono.
February 26, 2009
fisheye sessions #12
Category: city+ creatividad+ english+ proyectos+ urbanism
more office work on Fuencarral Special Plan… this time:
Glorieta de Quevedo. fisheye view from the gruond
February 19, 2009
imagine the future
Category: city+ creativity+ english
Surfing the web I’ve discovered that number of colormagazine dedicated to the effects of climate changing and sustenible development in the island of Vörland, in the year 2057.
February 16, 2009
urbArAmA – atlas of architecture
Category: architecture+ city+ english+ internet
Urbarama is a Web 2.0 Atlas of Architecture based on google maps,
you can see where is your favourite building and upload your photos.
February 11, 2009
Exploring New Visualisation Tools for Community Participation in the
Transformations of the Built Environment
Pop-Up Landscapes and Wiki Urban Planning Workshop
26-27-28 Feb 2009 – Hangar Barcelona
January 27, 2009
THE GREAT CAKE ESCAPE
Category: art+ city+ creativity+ english
I’d like to present this curious group all composed by young women who invaded London’s streets with cakes.
January 23, 2009
fisheye sessions #10
Category: city+ creativity+ english+ urbanism
Glorieta de Bilbao [Madrid]
-fisheye view from top-
January 15, 2009
Do It Yourself City
Category: architecture+ blogs+ city+ english+ open culture
DIYcity was created in October 2008 by John Geraci. The site explores the idea that open, participatory web technologies, applied to city living patterns, infrastructure and services, can radically transform cities as we know them, making them more efficient, more livable and more sustainable.
January 9, 2009
re-biennale
Category: architecture+ blogs+ city+ creativity+ english+ proyectos+ sustainability
Quite often grand cultural events, as the Architecture Biennale is, cross the city of Venice in a such imposing manner, rarely interacting with what stays out of the exhibition path. This applies to the citizens (inhabitants, students, workers) and also to the professionals and the artists officially invited.
December 12, 2008
skyscraperpage
Category: architecture+ city+ english+ internet+ proyectos
skyscraperpage contains a complete catalogue of the tallest buildings in the world built or under construction, you con search your city, your country or can upload your images.
November 25, 2008
fisheye sessions #8
Category: city+ cultura abierta+ english+ urbanism
Here we go with “fisheye sessions” issue #8…
Puerta del Sol [Madrid] -top view-
October 3, 2008
The 1st of October – it happened! What many citizens of Copenhagen have been looking forward to. The day when they shut down one of the most busy streets for cars, Norrebrogade, Copenhagen N. The street is one of the main thoroughfares of the capital – and it will be permanently closed for three months.
September 29, 2008
Miroslav Sasek – This is New York
Category: castellano+ city+ educación
Os recomiendo este libro de M. Sasek. “This is New York” es un libro de 1960 que presenta la ciudad de Nueva York a los niños. Pertenece a una serie de libros sobre ciudades: “This is…”
September 25, 2008
Here is a very nice example of Dutch attitude to public space.
September 24, 2008
Hi! I’m going to start up a new thematic post series called “fisheye sessions” to show homemade views that can show other ways to interpret or analyze urban or suburban space.
In this case, in relation to the work about Fuencarral axis that we are developing in the office, I shall show a fisheye view of the Gran Vía & Montera crossroads in Madrid.
May 23, 2008
Building Futures is the future studies programme of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Its activities include undertaking research, producing publications, and holding lectures, debates and seminar events. Building Futures promotes and encourages interaction between researchers, developers, architects, clients and the public.
Building Futures was established to create space for discussion about the needs of society from our built environment and, consequently, the built environment professions in 20 years and beyond.
The group aims to address the big picture. How and where will we be living in 50 or 100 years’ time, when the climate has changed and cities are bigger than ever? What technologies will architects be using to design buildings and what new materials will they be specifying? How will the inevitable new technologies affect the buildings we all use every day?
May 22, 2008
hace ciudad el grafitti?
Category: castellano+ city+ hallazgos+ video
Os dejo con dos videos sobre grafitti, algo que siempre genera sentimientos contradictorios. En este caso dos ejemplos positivos:
El primero es del Cans Festival en Londres.
El segundo, MUTO, una animación-grafitti de BluBLu (visitad su web, está muy bien).
May 20, 2008
City Mine(d) is a production house for urban interventions, committed to the development of new forms of urban citizenship, the re-appropriation of public space -roads, airwaves, stations, estates, parks, squares, virtual space- and the creation of cutting edge public artwork. The initially Belgian NGO now has agencies in Brussels, Barcelona and London, which are registered offices of the head office in Brussels.
May 16, 2008
BURB.TV is a collaborative research wiki focusing on the urbanization of China. Each article is a topical blog or BURB into which texts, images, and discussion are submitted. Each BURB grows to expand into the larger knowledge of The Chinese Dream, a project that investigates the goal to build 400 new cities by 2020. The research is produced with visionaries, architects, planners and social scientists invited by the Dynamic City Foundation.
May 15, 2008
URBAN AGE es una serie de conferencias que investigan el futuro de las ciudades a través del estudio de la vida, la evolución y el crecimiento de una serie de ciudades por todo el mundo:
NUEVA YORK – SHANGAI – LONDRES – CIUDAD DE MEJICO – JOHANNESBURGO – BERLIN – BOMBAI – SAO PAULO – ESTAMBUL
es un proyecto de seis años de duración organizado por la london school of economics y dirigido por el profesor ricky burdett. explora los procesos económicos, medioambientales, sociales, políticos y culturales que dan forma a la vida en la ciudad.
URBAN AGE is a worldwide series of conferences investigating the future of cities by thoroughly studying the life, evolution and growth of certain cities throughout the world:
NEW YORK – SHANGHAI – LONDON – MEXICO CITY – JOHANNESBURG – BERLIN – MUMBAI – SAO PAULO – ISTANBUL
a six-year project organised by the london school of economics, directed by ricky burdett, that explores the economic, environmental, social, political and cultural processes that shape city life.
May 13, 2008
experts on EUTV – new interviews
Category: architecture+ city+ english+ eutv+ internet+ sustainability
will alsop – ricky burdett - bill gething – cj lim – ken yeang – alejandro zaera
in a recent trip to london, i had the great pleasure to interview some of the city’s most relevant names in architecture and sustainability for our internet tv channel EUTV. you will soon be able to see these interviews on the web.
will alsop – one of UK’s most prominent architects. founder of smc alsop, responsible for projects such as the sharp centre for design (canada) or peckham library and media centre (UK). he is also a recognised artist and has been a tutor of sculpture at central st martins college of art & design (london).
April 29, 2008
Mobile community garden
Category: city+ english+ the environment+ transport
The Dutch artist Anne Chienmeier has already done small gardens on the bus roofs and airplanes. And her last project is movable community garden. Citizens can take it directly
Pink virus in Rotterdam
Category: architecture+ arte+ city+ design+ english+ eu:abierto+ the environment
April 23, 2008
bici crítica – jueves 24 abril
Category: castellano+ city+ eventos
como cada último jueves de mes, esta semana tenemos cita con la bici crítica, la marcha multitudinaria en bicicleta por las calles de madrid para celebrar que nos movemos pedaleando. y este mes intentamos llegar a mil ciclistas!
ven con tu bici a cibeles, junto a correos, a las 20.30 el jueves 24 de abril.
Blooming NYC Cabs
Category: city+ design+ english+ the environment+ transport
Last year since 2007 September until years end New York City has visually transformed. Taxi, yellow icon, blossomed in all colors and became a mobile artistic canvas, or Garden in Transit.
Imitated nature in Tokyo
Category: city+ english+ the environment
The typical characteristic of modern Japanese cities, most evident in Tokyo, is a chaotic, patchwork-like, urban environment filled with high-density residential and commercial areas close to industrial plants. Tokyo is known for hypermodern architecture, skyscrapers and looks like a future city. But how do people actually live in this concrete urbanity?
