Ferdinand Cheval
This is Etsuro Sotoo.
He is the Chief Sculptor for La Sagrada Familia, the unfinished basilica that Antoni Gaudi started building in 1882.
While working as an art professor in Kyoto, Sotoo visited Barcelona in 1978 and was so awed by Sagrada Familia that he moved to Spain and hasn’t... See more
Trung Phanx.comPeople have been inspired to create new spaces, rituals and infrastructure amongst ruins for millennia, artists in particular. From London to Berlin to Rome to Manila, many cities have been continually built anew atop the wreckage of their pasts, with creative groups often leading the way.
Johanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
I also think a lot about the old, iconic structures around the world that have stood the test of time and, in many cases, where we aren’t quite sure of all the details of how they were constructed. Marvels like the Colosseum, Roman aqueducts, or the Great Wall. Incredible architectural feats that were, by necessity, built to last and built slowly –... See more