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Illustrator. The story

Federico Garcia Barba — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:37:05 +0000

Las carátulas de la versión primera para Mac y la 10 de Illustrator en la que aparece la clásica referencia a la Venus de Boticelli

El programa Illustrator de Adobe se ha convertido en una referencia esencial para todos aquellos que trabajan digitalmente en el mundo del diseño gráfico.

Frente a otros programas como Freehand y Coreldraw, Illustrator ha acabado imponiéndose como el estándar de dibujo para toda una generación de artistas, profesionales y estudiantes relacionados con el mundo de las Bellas Artes, el Diseño Gráfico y la Arquitectura.

empleo, Led Zeppelin, etc.. que han configurado un universo creativo que se ha expandido infinitamente en relación con las publicaciones en papel y en la red.

Participación ciudadana. ¡Adiós 1987 La importancia de los linderos, diseñadora gráfica.

Viviendas y ciudades. ¡Felicidades!

El mundo según China from Discos de Rock on Vimeo.

La fundación de Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Federico Garcia Barba — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:33:40 +0000

Participación ciudadana (To 1920)

The 28 ¡Adiós, Federico García Barba impartió una conferencia sobre algunos episodios urbanísticos en la fundación de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Se trataba de recordar los lugares que constituyen la esencia construida de una de las capitales de las islas Canarias.

En esa ocasión se explicaron algunos rasgos de ese pasado urbano a través de su plasmación en calles y edificios, remontándonos a la fundación de la ciudad en el siglo XVI. Es un rico cúmulo de circunstancias que ejemplifica -al igual que ocurre en otros muchos lugares- como se produce ese proceso de sedimentación de los espacios comunes. Son esos hechos relevantes que dieron forma a aquel pequeño núcleo habitado en los dos siglos que transcurrieron hasta los comienzos del siglo XIX y que, en gran parte, ya han desaparecido físicamente.

Lo que se expuso es cómo era físicamente en sus comienzos esta ciudad tan desfigurada en que hoy habito. La conferencia tuvo lugar en la sede de la Real Academia Canaria de Bellas Artes de San Miguel Arcángel, situada en la plaza de Ireneo González.

Forma parte del ciclo de conferencias organizado por la institución académica relacionada con el arte en Canarias.. Peden encontrar la presentación en el siguiente enlace:

Algunas imágenes del acto realizado

Centenary “Correíllo La Palma”

Jorge Mosquera — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:32:00 +0000

Within a few days it will mark the first anniversary since it was delivered to the Canary Islands "Correillo La Palma" and given the great service you gave all its inhabitants, even today he has special affection. En la actualidad se encuentra atracado en el muelle Rivera en Santa Cruz de Tenerife como huella de una época difícil vivida en las Islas.

The Correíllos were originally a sailing ships carrying the Spanish Postal Service mail between the Canary Islands and overseas whose first line opened in 1855 with the task of connecting the islands major commercial (Gran Canaria and Tenerife), two to three times per week. The frequency with the rest of the smaller islands (La Palma, Lanzarote, La Gomera, Fuerteventura, El Hierro) was reduced, and not forgetting, trade with Cuba and England, major trading partners

Isolation is a constant in the history of the Canary Islands. The sea, hasta la construcción de los primeros aeropuertos isleños fue la única vía de conexión con el exterior durante centurias .
The Correillo La Palma was built by W. Harkerss & Son Ltd., Middlesbrough and launching took place on 15 February 1.912. After the 10 April, came the 16 commanded by Captain D. Aurelio del Arco and after a stopover in Bremen arrived in Las Palmas 24 de ese mismo mes.
Later, en 1.930, Mail Steamship Company Interinsular Canarios was acquired by the Company Transmediterranea and other boats came to support veterans Correíllos. These new ships are carectirzaban by having a white hull and is precisely why, primitives so became known Correíllos “the black Correíllos”.
Only “La Palma” survived the scrapping, siendo protagonista de mil y una aventuras y vicisitudes diferentes.
So, being in the port of Arrecife, the 16 March 1.976 suffered a serious fault in one of its boilers. The next day he arrived in Las Palmas. Since that time I was already scheduled next decommissioning and taking into account the high cost of having the boiler repair, acabó amarrado al muelle de Las Palmas en espera de lo que se decidiera en cuanto a su futuro.
The 12 November of that year was acquired at public auction and the amount of a million and a half pesetas by Jürgen Flick, who intended to convert it into a museum, yacht club and casino-restaurant. However, Mr. Flick stumbled upon the endless bureaucracy and paperwork almost infinite obstacles that joined, impedimentos y objeciones de todo tipo que acabaron con su paciencia.
Then, the 6 December 1.982 Liverpool City Council agreed to buy Flick boat to make it public cultural center, and for this purpose a committee was formed. But this operation was never carried. The 6 February 1.985, sick and not knowing what to do with it, Flick provides the boat, free to the city of Las Palmas. Not answered. Insists. Nada.
Steam “La Palma” now belongs to the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, by Flick family donation, former owner of the ship, that he had offered to other agencies and entities to save the dismantling. Al final fue la primera Corporación tinerfeña quien aceptó hacerse cargo del correíllo para transformarlo en Museo de la Navegación Canaria.

In the capital of Gran Canaria was founded the Friends of the steam “La Palma”, he tried to avoid at all costs the veteran out of his enclave ship, adding to it several political bodies of the island and other representations. Ultimately, day 13 March and in tow of Tamarán”, in good weather conditions, the steamship La Palma” inició su última singladura hacia el Puerto de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

In this blog my support and admiration to the “Fundacion Canaria La Palma Correillo”.

Masonic Temple Tenerife

Jorge Mosquera — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:23:00 +0000

Walking through the narrow streets of San Lucas in Santa Cruz de Tenerife you find the temple, the primer you view on it is strange that you asked that story hidden behind this monumental facade. By collecting information on it turned out to be one of the few buildings built as a Masonic temple in Spain who survived the Franco dictatorship and which survives today. Fue considerado como uno de los principales templos masónicos de España y el primero del Archipiélago Canario.

The temple was built between 1899 and 1902, according to project architect Manuel Municipal Chamber, whose funding was provided by the Lodge Añaza. The original construction budget was 15.000 pesetas, not including the front fence or enclosure, eventually rose to the work 20.008 pesetas, repartidas en doscientas acciones.
The building was used as a free school, School called Añaza, which was funded by the lodge. It was finally ceded to the City for the price of one peseta, con la condición de que se mantuviera como centro de formación de forma gratuita.
The building is recessed with respect to the surrounding, contains a strong Egyptian symbolism inspired mainly (reflecting the importance that during the late nineteenth century gave the Egyptian symbology). The facade is divided into three; The system features two huge columns embedded, with smooth wood and palm leaf capitals (palmiformes), holding a large triangular pediment,in this one is an eye with radiant rays (the all-seeing eye) on behalf of the Supreme Being, Gran Arquitecto del Universo según la simbología masónica .
Flanking each column, are two sphinxes (four total) that were made by the sculptor Guzman Compaña Zamorano (1878-1944). The front door is carved wood with geometric, thereon, the lintel is decorated with palm leaves and a sun with wings of an eagle, símbolo de Horus.
Once entered the building leads to a hallway. which leads to “room taken”, This space is preserved mosaic floor, embossed columns, and high space presiding the living. However, ceiling frescoes have been repainted in white wooden structure covered by an aluminum ceiling

In the sub-soil is a Chamber of Reflections, hecha en un tubo volcánico natural.

On the second floor is the banquet hall with large windows to the front,the auditorium being social . En el último nivel se encontraban las habitaciones.
The day 18 July 1936 military rebellion took place would start civil war and Franco, the same day the rebel troops entered the temple and confiscated all property and records. shortly after, became the Military Pharmacy store, activity which he combined later with optics for the Army, while the top was fitted as a barracks for soldiers until 1990 quedarïa cerrado hasta la fecha.
Finally, the State sold the building to the City of Santa Cruz in the year 2001 more than 470.000 euros.
El Templo ha sido declarado Bien de Interés Cultural en la categoría de Monumento que el Gobierno de Canarias aprobó en Consejo de Gobierno.
It's a shame that a building that is part of the history of the city is in a state of semi-ruin, por lo que su restauración y conservación considero que es necesaria .

A church in the rock

Federico Garcia Barba — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:57:00 +0000

Campus Giyorgys Beit Church of Lalibela

The excavation of the mountains to house construction is an ancient practice of which there are many examples around the world. The case of temples carved into volcanic tuff Lalibela (Ethiopia), is a very curious example that stands out for its uniqueness.

Construction exterior appearance. Photos: Jialiang Gao, Wikipedia

THE troglodytism, ie human use of caves and underground excavated spaces is an ancient practice. The caves were always one of the first shelters used by man, nomadic wandering in that our ancestors practiced primitive. The sculpture and architecture on rocky foundations has been practiced by many different civilizations, as evidenced by the pierced temples of Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt, the enigmatic city of Petra in Jordan, rediscovered in the early nineteenth century or the heads of U.S. presidents more meanings, carved on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota to 1930.

The regions south of Egypt in the upper basin of the Nile were always territories for the supply of good building materials. The quality of the granite was prized by builders of Egyptian civilization and, thus, much of its monuments were executed with fluvially transported stones from the quarries Ethiopians. Auguste Choisy, en su famous History of Architecture, first published in 1899, explained how those ancient builders produced massive granite blocks, rock carving and making transport directly by dragging hand with ropes.

A great example of the sophistication that the Egyptians achieved with these techniques it was the preparation and placement of obelisks. Extraction can be performed directly rock carving and making grooves in the granite mass to disengage whole pieces of great length with bronze wedges. Its displacement is produced generally by use of rollers and traction hand these huge monoliths. The adapted transport ships, plying the river Nile to the sites chosen, was the supplement that facilitate its use in the various monuments built for the pharaohs for his subjects.

Plant of the church dedicated to St. George in Lalibela

A similar technique to that of the Egyptians, heir to these ancient traditions, is the one that would be used throughout the twelfth century to excavate the pilgrimage sites of Lalibela, the new Jerusalem, in a mountainous region of northeastern Ethiopia. There are numerous examples of concentrated rock-cut architecture which resulted from a concerted effort, sponsored by a monarch called Frost Mesqel Lalibela.

Ethiopia should be a fascinating country. It is a semi-desert territory repository of an ancient culture that has survived to this day, having branches in other locations away from the world. An example of this is the Rastafarian movement, entrenched en Jamaica, recalls that these cultures and idolizes al disappeared last emperor of Abyssinia. One Ethiopian empire, heir of the kingdom of Axum, came to occupy in its heyday an immense extent, current integrating Somalia, Djibouti, eastern Sudan and South Egypt. He had several dynasties that would end with the overthrow of Negus (emperor) Haile Selasi en 1974. A branch of Orthodox Christianity would develop in that area of the world over hundreds of years, as a split from the Church of the East. Ethiopian Copts are known, as well- Lalibela have maintained that culture unique to this day, through numerous avatars and defending the powerful influence of Islam.

During the Arab invasion of Abyssinia, them axumita would move to the rugged plains of the north and there would remain the remains of a way of understanding religion in secret isolation for centuries fortified. In this part of North Africa, after implantation hegemonic Islam, would follow him practicing Orthodox worship in the sus variants nestorianas monofisitas. Una tradición religiosa que se prolonga hasta nuestros días.

Decoration carved into the stone facade with the reason for the Greek cross with the swastika intertwined. Photos: A.Davey, Flickr

A mid-twelfth century, King Lalibela of the dinastía Zagwe be proposed recall some Bible passages building a series of scenarios that would be excavated along decades in the red rock tuff existing in the region. The set consists of several buildings and enclosures excavated forming a vast complex of crypts, underground passages, open caves and galleries that make up a ghostly and silent world under the ground wet. Four churches excel in this scheme theatrical, Salvador houses calls, Mary, of Emmanuel and St George.

One such piece, perhaps the best known, church is Greek cross, dedicated to the San Jorge Beit Giyorgis. It is an authentic monumental sculpture carved into the granite rock vertically to a height of forty feet. It is accessed through a passage drilled horizontally into the hillside, communicating with a sort of open courtyard around the church. From this outdoor venue is accessed only organized structure cross with four equal-sized lateral spaces or access chapels that are a prelude to a large central volume topped by a dome. The set is lavishly decorated inside with frescoes that show their cultural relationship with Constantinople.

Vaults interior polychrome San Jorge Church of Lalibela. Photos: A.Davey, Flickr

Beit Giyorgis is a curiosity and aesthetic architectural structure whose power is due to the way it was executed and also hints that produces profoundly unaware of that fact architectural history. Una condición que la transforma en pasto de especulaciones de todo tipo.

In our day, architects have become fascinated by the human effort and take it as an inspiration. Is the case, as an example of the influence, Dutch team Search, formed by Dick van Gameren y Bjarne Mastenbroek, who would make a brilliant work of architecture, Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa of 2005, tomando como referencia estos precedentes.

Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa. Dick van Gameren y Bjarne Mastenbroek, Search Architects. 2005. Photos: Afritecture

The town of Los Cristianos and tourism

Federico Garcia Barba — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:54:00 +0000

View of the coast of Los Cristianos. Isla de Tenerife, 1920

Here is a selection of images of when tourism development began in the south of Tenerife, alrededor del pequeño poblado de pescadores de Los Cristianos.

To 1960, some visitors Nordic climatic advantages discovered south of the island of Tenerife. By the end of that decade had installed some nursing home dedicated to the recovery of pulmonary and physical rehabilitation during the Northern Hemisphere winter season. Estas primeras implantaciones singulares fueron los catalizadores de una colonización turística sin precedentes que ha generado una auténtica ciudad en apenas medio siglo.

At that time, access road south of the island was extremely difficult effort requiring several hours to traverse settlements that dotted the mediocrity of the south side of the island. The southern highway linking the capital Santa Cruz with the peoples of the south of the island starting as a branch from the junction of the Hill on the outskirts of the city and connecting on Candelaria, Guimar, Fasnia, Arico y Granadilla para llegar finalmente a Los Cristianos desde la parte alta de Arona.

The spatial pattern of Tenerife Island Plan. Doxiadis Iberian, 1972

An idea for planning urban island, the Island Plan 1972, designed by Doxiadis Iberian naturalization papers give a series of initiatives that would transform a radically the way they interacted with the island of Tenerife, communications, its economy, etc.. That document would provide the outline of a new way of communication and connection with the south island it would be critical to the territorial model change, la autopista the TF-1. Beside it also designing a battery of infrastructure and land allocations that have scheduled the development of the island along fifty years. This is the case of the Reina Sofia airport, the port and industrial area of Granadilla, the allocation of the coast for tourist use, etc.

The House of Sweden, located off the coast of Los Cristianos. 1964

In the early years 70 begin to emerge and buildings for service that demand was beginning to emerge regarding the use of the shoreline for swimming and sunlight. In Los Cristianos, pioneering facility would be known as home of the Swedish, it would be at one end of the beach and, nowadays, is immersed inside the urban continuum giving coastal walk against pedestrian. Behind her the project would Wintersol, a health facility and rationally planned and would include services and spaces for rehabilitation. It would be an exemplary work of architects Saavedra Diaz Llanos and serve as a reference for much of the later buildings designed, in one way or another, a acoger a los nuevos visitantes provenientes del norte de Europa.

In ten years would incorporate numerous buildings to small fishing village of Los Cristianos which would radically transform primitive morphology on very flimsy. It would be the definition of the development adjoining Americas when truth be projected tourist city on stronger technical basis, de acuerdo nuevamente al diseño funcional de Doxiadis Ibérica.

The images here together, reflejan de alguna manera esa etapa inicial de la urbanización de un territorio que hoy se ha convertido en uno de los motores que mueven la economía de la isla de Tenerife.

La playa de Los Cristianos en 1960

The coast of the bay of Los Cristianos in 1950. This already built the house 'Tavío

The main street and the church square, view from the old Hostal Reveron

Models with new buildings tourist destination. Los Cristianos, 1968

Wintersol, Thalassotherapy and rehabilitation facility. Diaz Llanos Saavedra, architects. 1970

The davits de la Gomera

Jorge Mosquera — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:43:00 +0000

Boom Hermigua

The davits provided the main means of communication in the north of La Gomera with the outside, staged development of the northern part of the island, posibilitando que los productos agrícolas fueran conocidos y comercializados en el exterior.

In the early twentieth century in the Canaries there was a major change, Cochineal was replaced as tomatoes and bananas monoculture, made to transform the economic structures of the islands. This brought with it a major problem so far had not taken place: these products had to consume fresh, with cochineal thing was not necessary. Tanto los tomates como plátanos no permitían el almacenamiento prolongado por lo que había que trasladarlo rápidamente a los lugares de consumo.

La Gomera began production of these products given its extraordinary conditions to produce it by what was found with the serious problem of the lack of port and inland infrastructure for marketing. Therefore at first be thought of carrying out a port, but given the difficult conditions both maritime (constant bad sea conditions) difficult terrain, así como inexistencia de carreteras.

Given these premises without the support of the Administration, the solution that provided the gums was building structures called davits. These metal structures supported on pillars of land jutting into the sea, permitiendo que una embarcación fondeara cerca de la costa y facilitara el embarque y desembarque de personas animales y mercancías.

In La Gomera were built davits Hermigua, Agulo and Vallehermoso and served a great help for the development of the island since the early twentieth century to the mid-century, cuando se empezaron a desarrollar otras vías de comunicación.
En la actualidad solo quedan los grandes pilares que sustentaban la estructura y hay iniciativas para rehabilitarlos al forma parte importante de la historia de la Gomera.

The coastal landscape of today Hermigua

*Most of the photos and documentation corresponds to the wonderful book “The davits de la Gomera” escrito por Miguel Angel Morales Mora desde aqui mi agradecimiento.

Canary 1950

Federico Garcia Barba — Sun, 22 May 2011 08:24:00 +0000

Preparing the fish fishmongers “jareado”

In recent weeks the Internet has circulated a copy of an article on Canary, published the year 1955, in the American magazine National Geographic Magazine. Es un documento gráfico de primera magnitud para comprender el cambio radical que ha experimentado este archipiélago en tan solo una cincuentena de años.

In esa Reseña, acompañada shocking unas imágenes de las Islas, Jean and Franc Shor presentaban las Costumbres, them the cities and landscapes of the Canary Islands more Highlights, as an idealized paradise floral friendly inhabitants Dedicated las Labores agrícolas. Well dirían: There hay trabajo y comida para todos: los precios y los salarios son bajos.

Ideologically, the image of the Canary Afortunadas habitat is rebuilt from the late nineteenth century under a idealized interpretation of the Past, reflected throughout most of the text and illustrations, masking a straitened times in which was very sad Canary economically. They were years in which the islanders tried to leave their backwardness, projecting abroad as a way of scenery and unique culture in search of mass tourism. This explains thoughts like the following: The Corpus Christi is the time when people wear their nicest clothes, there singing and dancing day and night. Canary is always wonderful and I think I will like the islands of Fortune, in the words of Francisco Pérez Naranjo, contained in Article. In colorful islands, Native pave the streets with petals at the time of Corpus, Shor also say

Tourism is a way to present the attractions of a place like intangible economic resources rely on the photographic image. Some of this has been explained Carmelo Vega in his book, Logical Photo Tourist.

The interesting, in this case, is to analyze in detail the combination of images interspersed, that teach the territory, urban forms and customs festive, almost ready for contemplation. A Canary imagery exhibiting a scenic pastoral culture, chaired by beautiful young fishers and farmers radiant. Pero también un territorio con impactantes posibilidades paisajísticas.

The carpets of Corpus Christi in León y Castillo Street beside the San Telmo Park in Las Palmas

In 1955, coastal areas of the cities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, had not yet suffered the powerful transformations that involved the construction of Maritime Avenue, on the one hand, and occupation by the barrier of buildings Marina Street, other. The main street of the town of La Laguna appears inhabited by pilgrims and their livestock, with all the traditional houses that existed, intact; while, on the island of Lanzarote, a peasant family mounted his camel through an interior landscape of Haria Valley, widely cultivated; and in the Llanos de la Palma, a group of children appear next to your home, rodeados de flores y chumberas.

Fishermen in the harbor of Las Palmas. In the background, Maritimo front of Triana

The seafront of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, en 1950

Bucolic images of Los Llanos, on the island of La Palma and Lanzarote farmers

The agricultural landscape of the valley of Haria in Lanzarote

Dairy Tenerife, with his tools stored, displacement in common to the city

It has attracted attention in particular a photograph: dairy group travel in an old bus, with their jars stacked on the roof. A regular characters in urban settings of my childhood, livestock products offering their craft by houses and gathered, turn, food scraps to feed their animals. A true combination of informal recycling work efficiently without bureaucratic requirements, supervisions and current permits.

Item, The Canaries, the fortunate islands of Spain, resume una visión de una época más sencilla y simple que la que nos ha tocado vivir en estas últimas décadas.

The Race Street City of La Laguna, in full Pilgrimage of San Benito. Tenerife, 1955

Transforming the coast

Federico Garcia Barba — Sun, 01 May 2011 09:39:00 +0000

La costa del sur de Tenerife en las próximidades del Médano en los años 70

El Medano was a delightful place on the coast, to early 60. Un antiguo pueblo de pescadores con muelle y una amplia playa de arena que conformaba un paisaje singular de la isla de Tenerife.

At the time, Medano granadillero neighborhood was a small plot grid with large gaps around. The streets and central areas lacked paving, were dirt and sand; were organized by one of the existing beaches, acting as a point of arrival of the fishing boats. La ermita original aparece aislada junto al camino de acceso por el que se llegaba desde el interior de la isla.

Today we show the images of that place then taken for a curious episode that starred the intrepid pilot of airplanes, D. Tomas Sanchez Spider, father of a friend who liked pleasure soar, as his true profession was medicine. During a competition would take some aerial photos of that part of the coast which are absolutely amazing island. The transformation has been so dramatic that the enclave is hardly unrecognizable, hoy en día.

The enclave of fishermen along the beach and the small stone pier basaltic

At the time, had not yet been built yet controversial Hotel El Medano. However, en una foto más reciente ya aparece junto al segundo hotel característico de ese núcleo vacacional en Los Valos.

The central space of the nucleus along the beach which was used as landing

Comparing with some existing images, the densification process and increased volumes has been devastating. Only some interventions, as the seaside promenade, have been able to appease the wrath minimally property action

In forty years, islands have experienced massive degradation process in which the coast has been occupied without any care. Thereby, radically privatized is the main value that gave rise to the tourism industry, the use of the coast to enjoy the sun and beach. With so many negative consequences to the future, on which action should be systematic and coordinated in the future if we want to maintain a competitive manner that productive resource. La recualificación del espacio turístico debería enfocarse en la mejora de la accesibilidad al mar y la atenuación de las visuales más disruptivas que ha producido esa masificación descontrolada.

The coastal district today Medano. Canary Aerial Photography

The Coastal Act of 1988 established a controversial mechanism for the protection of that strip of land between the land and sea. His flaw is that regulatory action was a precautionary basis only. Construction reservation between 20 and 100 meters, established from the seashore, was a good idea, which has then been subverted massively, thereby generating enormous criticism collective. A Coast transformative process, with the support of many government and public institutions and which has tried to continue the division between private operators speculative real estate and the ultimate benefit of the big chains. Just remember some examples such as the Hotel carob in Carboneras or coast of Playa Blanca en Lanzarote para sentir vergüenza ajena.

The author of the images, Dr. Sanchez Spider, pilotando su aparato.

The contradiction is that the space landscape, which generated enormous wealth, should have been properly preserved with positive actions and consideration as collective public good. There should have been publicly Acting oriented institutional buying land and space with visual restoration interventions artificialization accept the process followed prior.

The collective commitment should be expressed demanding the return to society of the common good that is the coastal landscape, against any particular interest.

(Our thanks to Tomás Sánchez Peraza by the images supplied)

Reform Medano coastal walk. N3 Architects, 1996

Albert Speer. The myth of the Architect

Jorge Mosquera — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:26:00 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to read this book already published in the years 60 and has been re-edited by the Ed Cliff, escrito por Albert Speer el Arquitecto predilecto de Adolf Hitler y Ministro de Armamento durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Albert Speer was one of the few people trusted the dictator, was his confidant and one for whom he had a real friendship and admiration. The only time that Adolf Hitler went to Paris once invaded, algido decided to savor the moment of his military triumph sharing with two architects Albert Speer and Herman Giesler, discriminating against military generals and party leaders, resulta tan sorprendente como si George Bush una vez invadido Irak se hiciera acompañar por Michael Graves y Frank Gehry en su visita triunfal.

It was an efficient technocrat and a brilliant organizer who gave form to the Fuhrer's visionary dreams. Speer was primarily a means to an end, the more pleasing to his patron. greater would be the rewards. It suited the extravagant tastes of Hitler, if this would have required an abstract style Speer would have given, pero lo que le gustaba era la antigua Roma y Speer hizo cuanto pudo para dársela.

In the decade of the thirties both Speer and Mies Van der Rohe were willing to work with the most abominable character of all time, the difference is that Speer was devoted entirely to meet the architectural ambitions of their master, mientras Mies era capaz de transigir en temas políticos pero era inflexible en lo que se refería a la Arquitectura.

In the late thirties Hitler and Speer wanted to reorganize Berlin called Germania Pharaonic project that developed along a central boulevard five kilometers. In the North end Speer based on sketches drawn by Hitler in the years 20 thought in a building with a huge dome inspired by the Pantheon, this dome height would 200 m and a diameter of 250 m, that is a real exaggeration, When the father saw the model of Speer (architect also) just came to say you are crazy!. En el extremo sur del bulevar habría un arco semejante al arco del triunfo de Paris siendo casi el doble en cuanto a sus dimensiones.Esta intervención supondría arrasar casi todo lo existente.

I particularly while reading the book about what surprised me was his ability to manipulate, with a very engaging personality that impressed those who knew him, acting like a real snake charmer, both in the Nazi period and in the Nuremberg trials where with his oratory and their justifications were able to escape from the gallows. En las memorias es de los pocos que describió de una manera clara todo lo que ocurrió en ese bunker durante Segunda Guerra Mundial .