donderdag 24 januari 2013

1948 _ René Magritte _ Shéhérazade


My painting is visible images
 which conceal nothing;
they evoke mystery and,
indeed, when one sees one
of my pictures, one asks
 oneself this simple question
'What does that mean'?
 It does not mean anything,
because mystery means
 nothingeither
,it is unknowable."

René Magritte



woensdag 16 januari 2013

Jaime Lerner sings of the city


“A car is like your mother-in-law: you have to have good relationship with her, but she cannot command your life.”

Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible in the metropolitan landscape.

From building opera houses with wire to mapping the connection between the automobile and your mother-in-law, Jaime Lerner delights in discovering eccentric solutions to vexing urban problems. In the process he has transformed the face of cities worldwide.