Architecture in time
Copan Building
This is considered to be the largest condominium in the world. 40 floors of apartments that vary from 26 to 300 square meters make a total of 1160 living units. They are completed by a series of commercial spaces accessible to any inhabitant. This 140m high building was built in Sao Paolo by Oscar Niemeyer […]
Double Ascension fountain
This fountain is one of Herbert Bayer’s famous sculptures and it stands in the plaza between the two ARCO Towers in Los Angeles. It brings not only color to this urban space but in the same time merges perfectly with the surrounding gray landscape generated by the building facades (designed by A.C. Martin & Associates). […]
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
Alphonse Mucha was a Czech artist, whose works brought him into the lights of the Art Nouveau movement. His stylized hair patterns became a hallmark and the way in which he turned even immaterial things into decorations, without creating laden images (in his posters), brought him fame. But he didn’t like that, and he […]
Alphonse Mucha - Job cigarettes
Created in 1898, as a commercial for “Job” cigarettes, this poster is a famous Art Nouveau work. Everything is transformed into decorative form using swirling lines and flat colors. The hair, the cigarettes smoke, all becomes part of the scenery of pleasure. In fact Mucha subordinates the advertised object to the image of pleasure, painted […]
