Architecture and Culture

Altare della Patria, Rome Photo: Alvesgaspar/Wikimedia Commons Altare della Patria ("Altar of the Fatherland") is a monument built to honor the first king of the newly unified Italy, Victor Emmanual. The monument was designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885. The final structure was inaugurated in 1911 and construction was completed in 1925. It is built in the neoclassical style and incorporates Corinthian columns, fountains, equestrian statues of Victor Emmanual and statues of the goddess Victoria riding quadrigas. Its enormous size of the monument has had its fair share of criticism both for its conspicuousness, size, and pompous design. Its construction also destroyed large parts of the ancient Roman Capitoline Hill. Arc De Triomphe, Paris Photo: Dietmar Rabich/Wikimedia Commons The Arc De Triomphe is probably the world's most famous Triumphal Arch and one of Paris's most iconic landmarks. It stands at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Pla

Parasitic architecture gallery

The Green Exhibition House appeared in Rotterdam in 2001, designed as an experiment in assembling a prefabricated structure onto an existing building. In true parasitic fashion, the water pipes, sewage and electricity were all tapped from existing connections in the base building (By: Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten) Manifest Destiny, by artist Mark Reigelman, is a tiny cabin affixed to the side of a hotel in downtown San Francisco. Designed to envision the “romantic spirit of the Western myth”, this interesting structure positions itself as an compelling juxtaposition between the old and the new (By: Mark Reigelman) The Parasite office in Moscow from Za Bor architects utilizes the abandoned space between buildings to create a multistory office environment. The structure sits above the laneway between the buildings and resembles an organic growth seemingly joining up the two disparate buildings on either side (By: Peter Zaytsev) From Stefan Eberstadt the Rucksack Ho

Casa Möbius - Ernesto Gómez Gallardo

Casa Möbius garden In the 1970s the hills of San Jerónimo on the outskirts of Mexico City Gallardo brought to life his concrete home on Calle Pino. The concrete fireplace is in keeping with the architecture In the living room, which features the residence's gridded ceiling and concrete fireplace, furnishings are paired with paintings, photos and a number of contemporary designs. And ceiling pattern is omnipresent in the house, like an architectural signature, swooping overhead wherever one goes; its cave-like aesthetic creates a subterranean environment. Ernesto Gallardo’s study room A bell jar sits on the study table. Inside it, a crucifix and a gilded metal rose. Around it are piles of sketches, poems, blueprints, cartoons and letters. The shelves beyond creak under the weight of encyclopedias, stories by Jorge Luis Borges and decades old issues of National Geographic, their spines faded to pale yellow. The computer in the corner is decades old; Gallardo p

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