ACCIDENTAL REFLECTIONS

"YOU HAVE BEEN THE EMBODIMENT OF EVERY GRACEFUL

FANCY THAT MY MIND HAS EVER BECOME ACQUAINTED 

WITH"

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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TRIBECA

UNLIKELY PAIR

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CHILD

LIMA, PERU

' I wonder through each dirty street

near where dirty Thames does flow

and on each human face I meet

Marks of weaknes, marks of woe'

W.Blake

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FREEDOM TOWER

LOWER MANHATTAN,  NEW YORK CITY

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Photographs has been taken during the short evening cruise on the Hudson River.
September 29, 2012

CATHEDRAL OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, RIO, BRASIL

ARCHITECT: EDGAR FONSECA

STUDENT OF OSCAR NIEMEYER

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CONSTRUCTION:1964 -1979

DIAMETER: 96M, HEIGHT 75M

LOCATION DOWNTOWN RIO DE JANEIRO

THE VILLA SAVOYE, POISSY , FRANCE

Last of Purist Houses 

1928-1937
"the icon of bygone modernity"

LIVING ROOM LOOKING TO GARDEN TERRACE

"...the outside always an inside....the hanging garden onto which the sliding plate-glass walls of living room and other rooms of the house  open freely: thus the sun is everywhere, in the very heart of the house"

Transitioning to the exterior , the ramp leads to  SOLARIUM, from which entire site can be seen"

EXTERIOR

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NOGUCHI II

AKARI SHINES LIKE THE LIGHT OF SUN...THEY SEEM TO OFFER MAGICAL UNFOLDING AWAY FROM THE SPRITUAL WORLD.

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It was on a trip to gifu, Japan  in 1951 that Noguchi created

his first Akari designs, inspired by the traditional lanterns

illuminating night fishing on the Nagara River. He called 

these works Akari, a Japanese term meaning light as a

illumination, but also impliying weightlessness.