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May 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
González de León: also a big Le Corbusier guy. He designed some of Mexico City’s most beautifully austere buildings, including Museo Rufino Tamayo and Auditorio Nacional de México. He also designed the shopping mall Reforma 222—which is a bunch of tubes.
May 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
González de León: also a big Le Corbusier guy. He designed some of Mexico City’s most beautifully austere buildings, including Museo Rufino Tamayo and Auditorio Nacional de México. He also designed the shopping mall Reforma 222—which is a bunch of tubes.
O’Gorman was the father of Mexican functionalism, which prioritized efficiency at low cost, following Le Corbusier’s philosophy that a house is a "machine for living". In O’Gorman’s language, the tubular fences would make a kind of utilitarian sense. The man loved simple geometric shapes.
May 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
O’Gorman was the father of Mexican functionalism, which prioritized efficiency at low cost, following Le Corbusier’s philosophy that a house is a "machine for living". In O’Gorman’s language, the tubular fences would make a kind of utilitarian sense. The man loved simple geometric shapes.
In a charitable moment, I thought perhaps they were based on the elegant cercas de cactus used by architect Juan O’Gorman, most famously in front of the Diego and Frida studio houses.
May 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In a charitable moment, I thought perhaps they were based on the elegant cercas de cactus used by architect Juan O’Gorman, most famously in front of the Diego and Frida studio houses.
There’s a type of fence you see everywhere here, in Mexico City.
More of a wall, really, made of cylindrical tubes, usually surrounding government buildings.
More of a wall, really, made of cylindrical tubes, usually surrounding government buildings.
May 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There’s a type of fence you see everywhere here, in Mexico City.
More of a wall, really, made of cylindrical tubes, usually surrounding government buildings.
More of a wall, really, made of cylindrical tubes, usually surrounding government buildings.
“It is said so often and in such ignorance that Mexicans are contented, happy people. “They don’t want anything.” This, of course, is not a description of the happiness of Mexicans, but of the unhappiness of the person who says it.”
— John Steinbeck, in The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941)
— John Steinbeck, in The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941)
May 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“It is said so often and in such ignorance that Mexicans are contented, happy people. “They don’t want anything.” This, of course, is not a description of the happiness of Mexicans, but of the unhappiness of the person who says it.”
— John Steinbeck, in The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941)
— John Steinbeck, in The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1941)
Today's Color Walk
Los Angeles, CA
Blue 🔵🔵🔵
Los Angeles, CA
Blue 🔵🔵🔵
February 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Today's Color Walk
Los Angeles, CA
Blue 🔵🔵🔵
Los Angeles, CA
Blue 🔵🔵🔵
Today's Color Walk: Red & Orange
Mammoth, CA
Mammoth, CA
February 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Today's Color Walk: Red & Orange
Mammoth, CA
Mammoth, CA
lol forgot today's color is WHITE
February 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
lol forgot today's color is WHITE
Today's Color Walk
Mammoth, CA
Mammoth, CA
February 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Today's Color Walk
Mammoth, CA
Mammoth, CA
Los Ángeles color walk
Feb 4, 2025
today's color: green
Feb 4, 2025
today's color: green
February 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Los Ángeles color walk
Feb 4, 2025
today's color: green
Feb 4, 2025
today's color: green
Mexico City Color Walk
Feb 3, 2025
Today's Color: Blue
Feb 3, 2025
Today's Color: Blue
February 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Mexico City Color Walk
Feb 3, 2025
Today's Color: Blue
Feb 3, 2025
Today's Color: Blue
on Mexican-American relations, 1916 edition
January 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
on Mexican-American relations, 1916 edition
You can’t rightly call his 1929 book "New Worlds to Conquer" a proper Mexico travelogue, as the book is more about Halliburton’s imagination and derring-do than it is about the country or the people, both of which simply serve as exotic backdrops, but it’s absolutely entertaining. Recommended.
January 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
You can’t rightly call his 1929 book "New Worlds to Conquer" a proper Mexico travelogue, as the book is more about Halliburton’s imagination and derring-do than it is about the country or the people, both of which simply serve as exotic backdrops, but it’s absolutely entertaining. Recommended.
But maybe you're more interested in the most famous Mexico travelogue of all? That would be Alexander von Humboldt's "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain" (1811): the first truly scientific account of New Spain, with Humboldt crossing the country measuring everything mountains to genotypes
January 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
But maybe you're more interested in the most famous Mexico travelogue of all? That would be Alexander von Humboldt's "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain" (1811): the first truly scientific account of New Spain, with Humboldt crossing the country measuring everything mountains to genotypes
"Travels in the New World" (1648) by Thomas Gage, who arrived as a Dominican friar in Veracruz in 1625 after, by some accounts, sneaking his way aboard ship in a wine barrel. First comprehensive account of Mexico by a non-Spanish foreigner, this book.
January 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Travels in the New World" (1648) by Thomas Gage, who arrived as a Dominican friar in Veracruz in 1625 after, by some accounts, sneaking his way aboard ship in a wine barrel. First comprehensive account of Mexico by a non-Spanish foreigner, this book.
You could start with Job Hortop's "Rare travales"
For 12 years towards the end of the 16th century, Job was a crewman on a Spanish slave ship. His ordeals were published and later included in Hakluyt’s Voyages, a collection of original records of English voyages overseas before 1600.
For 12 years towards the end of the 16th century, Job was a crewman on a Spanish slave ship. His ordeals were published and later included in Hakluyt’s Voyages, a collection of original records of English voyages overseas before 1600.
January 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You could start with Job Hortop's "Rare travales"
For 12 years towards the end of the 16th century, Job was a crewman on a Spanish slave ship. His ordeals were published and later included in Hakluyt’s Voyages, a collection of original records of English voyages overseas before 1600.
For 12 years towards the end of the 16th century, Job was a crewman on a Spanish slave ship. His ordeals were published and later included in Hakluyt’s Voyages, a collection of original records of English voyages overseas before 1600.