#barock architecture

[dashalbrundezimmer]

sankt gregorius im elend // köln südstadt

one of the few baroque churches in cologne is sankt gregorius im elend in the south of cologne. the small church is somewhat hidden, but it is a real gem. destroyed during the war, it was rebuilt largely in its original form under the direction of karl band, one of the great architects of the reconstruction of cologne, who also had a great affinity for cologne's churches.

[jpelsous]

Detalle del hermoso frontal de madera dorada y vidrio pintado que adorna el retablo mayor de la antigua iglesia jesuita de San Antonio Abad, hoy Panteón de los Próceres. #lima #igerslima #perú #igersperu #barroco #barocco #barock #baroque #arquitectura #architettura #architecture #virreinato #virreinal #colonial #patrimonio #patrimoniocultural #patrimoniomundial #heritage #worldheritage #iglesia #church #altar #altarpiece (en Panteón De Los Próceres) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoQQAzPPgj8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[agkrakow]

METRUM

This constitutes the environment for 1000+ people talking. It is a stage for talking and a method of hearing. The unforgettable body of the city. The mechanics to distinguish between noice and sound.

1

1.1.1. THE MARKET is not about trade but about the celebration of men’s achievements, showing collective through the individual. 

1.1.2. It puts words and sentences into proportion. 

1.1.3. It is the exclamation point. A shouting of a number, the yelling of a product is related to the experience as a cry is to pain. [24]

1.2.

1.2.1. Merchants name things and then we can talk about them: can refer to them in talk.

1.2.2. "Money talks" because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally achieved work, skill, and experience. [23]  

2

2.1.1. THE TEMPLE thinks of mistakes. 

2.1.2. Sin is a gravitation. [25] It has great potentiality. The more the better. Errors attract mistakes, attract silent faulty words attract curse attract sin. 

2.1.3. The poison contains the antidote and the foolish would think “Now I may have to eat my words.” [28] 

2.1.4. But The fault is in the appetite, not the food itself. [29] And Appetite with an opinion of attaining, is called hope. And with a faulty appetite Eve liberated us from a formatted paradise. [31]  

2.1.5. The faithful pile up offerings representing the mistakes.

2.1.6. Namely shards of glass. Reminiscent of communism.

2.2.

2.2.1. Man has the power to reverberate the Divine thunder. [27] 

2.2.2. It sounds like confessions, whispering and melodic incantation. They don't talk, but they do reveal. [26] 

3

3.1.1. THE PARLIAMENT thinks of the discursive "rules and customs" of rhetoric, fiction, and dialectic, […] they are all a part of the continuum of linguistic material that constitutes it, just as tune and rhythm are the means of representation for flute playing. [32]

3.1.2. It is the body of language. 

3.1.3. An agreement, in the same sense about formal relations and structural relations. [33]

3.1.4. It doesn´t exist anymore. But it is inside these forms – even if they too have now passed into oblivion – that the real work of the advancement [34] of forgetting is done.

3.2.

3.2.1. The deputies dispute.

3.2.2. THE MINISTERS are the big mouths. The type of the master […] is defined in terms of the faculty of forgetting and the power of acting reactions. [35] 

3.2.3. Instead of carrying the name of their position, they carry the names of the most prominent figures before them. Krakus II, Bona Sforza II, Sigismund V, Wojtyla II, Majchrowski II, … 

3.2.4. and eventually forget their faculty of forgetting.

4

4.1.1. THE CASTLE is an echo. It can´t speak it´s own words, but instead only reflects the last words spoken: Wawel.

4.1.2. Forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, the castle itself has long been forgotten. 

4.1.3. Here offices (Titles) of Honor, by occasion of trouble, and for reasons of good and peacable government, were turned into mere Titles; serving for the most part, to distinguish the precedence, place, and order of subjects […] 

4.1.4. and men were made Dukes, Counts, Marquises, and Barons of Places, wherein they had neither possession, nor command. [36]

4.2.

4.2.1. To save Wawel from this generic activity by which reactive forces are trained and tamed, [37] all the wasted breath is to be condensed on the castle´s mirrors, the windows, the handrails and doorknobs. A cooling system will be installed.

4.2.2. The castle sounds reverberant. A hollow sound body, uniting architectural languages: spanning from the Medieval, Renaissance, Barock to Oblivion. 

5

5.1.1. THE BATH drowns one thought with the next. As we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire [38]

5.1.2. The dressed swimmer can’t get to the bottom of his memory, down to the total and first oblivion. But when he surged naked from the bath in which he discovered the force that makes us float, he inverts Harlequin, overdressed, the way invention is opposed to memory. [39]

5.1.3. The bath hosts the liquified, naked act of forgetting. A bodily act. The sounds are the rhythmic splashes of water, hushes in the sweat room, gossip in the dressing.

6

6.1.1. And then there are THE HOMES. Here, Eros and language mesh at every point. Intercourse and discourse, copula and copulation, are sub classes of the dominant fact of communication. 

6.1.2. They arise from the life need of the ego to reach out and comprehend, in the two vital senses of ‘understanding’ and ‘containment,’ another human being. 

6.1.3. Sex is a profoundly semantic act. [40]

6.1.4. In a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures. They become richer. [41]

6.1.5. The sound of the home is moaning and soliloquy. 

6.2.

6.2.1. Talking to oneself is a recognized form of play that is indispensable to any growth of self-confidence [41] Identities have their material shape in the home and all the homes of Krakow in their resonating togetherness, give rise to a zone of intensity of mutually prehended, unbound creativity. [42]

6.2.2. At home people are not an echo, not at the center of everything like a sonorous echo, but on the edges of messages, at the birth of noises. [43]

X

X.1.1. People are talking. Talking is fighting, negotiating, contracting, cursing, breathing, forgetting. The city is tuning the individuals and the individuals rythming the city.

X.1.2. The city is the noise and the sound. Oscillations between the code of utility and the code of beauty. [44]  The urban and the cityness. 

X.1.3. It is all the colors of all the words. 

X.1.4. It acknowledges that reflection, luster, refraction, luminosity, darkness, color, softness, absorption, liquidity [45]  are all physical properties of talking. 

X.1.5. The talking city is volatile and solid. 

X.1.6. Meaningless and utterly significant.

X.1.7. It and you in it, work like data and information, like capital and coins, You dematerialize, then rematerialize. [46]

XX

X.X.X. The city emits a rhytmic sound.

[23] McLuhan, Understanding Media

[24] Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

[25] Hugo, Les Miserables

[26] Wollstonecraft, Complete Works

[27] McLuhan, Understanding Media

[28] Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

[29] Abelard, The Letters to Heloise and other Writings

[30] Hobbes, Leviathan

[31] Serres, Branches

[32] Snyder, Writing the Scene of Speaking

[33] Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

[34] Foucault, History of Madness

[35] Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

[36] Hobbes, Leviathan

[37] Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

[38] Homer, Iliad

[39] Serres, Variations on the Body

[40] Steiner, After Babel Aspects of Language and Translation

[41] McLuhan, Understanding Media

[42] Braidotti Dolphijn, Philosophy After Nature

[43] Serres, The Parasite

[44] Schumacher, The Autopoiesis of Architecture Vol 2

[45] Evans, The Projective Cast Architecture and Its Three Geometries

[46] Mitchell, Me The Cyborg Self and the Networked City

[paolojcruz]

Bridget Jones in Kirby’s Fourth World

REVIEWS : COMICS

Jersey Gods succeeds at an unlikely mashup of “chick lit” and cosmic superheroics.

Originally posted on the Multiply page of Sputnik Fantastik, January 2010

Did you ever think Bridget Jones’ Diary would be more interesting if DC’s jetpack-wearing science hero Adam Strange had been the love interest? Or perhaps you’ve always wanted to read a comic that mashes up The Devil Wears Prada with Marvel’s galactic crossover War of Kings. If so, then Jersey Gods is perfect for you.

The basic premise is relatively simple: Zoe is a willful, free-spirited gal from the suburban Garden State. Barock is a stoic, dutiful war hero, who’s caught up in the midst of a power struggle between god-like alien civilizations. By some contrived twist of fate, their paths cross, when a rogue deity opens a dimensional portal in a crowded shopping mall. But what are the odds of this star-crossed pair falling in love, let alone having a functional relationship?

Jersey Gods necessarily caters to readers with broader pop sensibilities, due to its mix of disparate influences. It obviously borrows heavily from Jack Kirby’s cosmic adventures, like the Fourth World titles, and the original 70s version of The Eternals. Indeed, artist Dan McDaid’s panel layouts and character designs feel like a ‘reimagining’ of vintage Kirby, in the same way that, say, Darwyn Cooke updates pulp adventure illustration for modern audiences.

To that end, he’s supported by colorist Rachelle Rosenberg, whose vivid, dynamic palette breathes life into the otherworldly conflict between the heroic Walkers and the nefarious Orbiters. It’s not easy to create a realm as fanciful as Neboron, with its celestial architecture and crackling space weaponry, and still be able to keep the reader involved with the plot. Thankfully, writer Glen Brunswick manages to pull it off by establishing well-defined personalities for the off-world characters, before thrusting them headlong into a potentially deadly infiltration mission.

Yet for all its sci-fi bravura, Jersey Gods is also very much a romantic comedy, with tropes that are deftly cribbed from Jane Austen and textbook “chick lit” alike. Zoe is refreshingly well-rounded, interrogating the “Jewish-American Princess” archetype (the East Coast US version of a kikay, materialistic career girl), even as we learn about the circumstances that have shaped her personality along those lines. Fittingly, her earthbound supporting cast wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of Ugly Betty, from her harried suitor in the first chapter, to her neurotic parents, and a surprisingly nuanced boss figure. It’s Zoe’s side of the plot that gives Jersey Gods a much needed human dimension, as a counterpoint to the awesome space battles and planetary espionage. Her life may be tied to a specific region, but if you strip away the dairy farms and industrial parks, the New Jersey she inhabits isn’t all too different from the social world of a typical upwardly mobile young professional in Manila.

Ultimately, Jersey Gods is a story about finding middle ground: between the ordinary and the fantastic; between lofty ideals and harsh reality; between living up to social expectations and pursuing one’s individual dreams. It obviously won’t be easy for Zoe and Barock to keep up this delicate balancing act. Nevertheless, I'm intrigued enough to find out how this unlikely couple gives it a shot.

[darkacademiaclassics]

colloredo mansfeld palace, prague

[andys-fofografie-seite]

Eine kleine Bilderserie vom Tagesausflug nach Würzburg 🏰 mit dem 9 Euroticket 🚄 Wunderschön die Residenz 🏛 . . 📸@andys_fotografie_seite 📸@andys_travel_seite 📍#würzburg 📷#sonya7iv #sonyobjectiv . . #residenz #residenzwürzburg #franken #barock #deutschland #spiegelung #reflection #brunnen #gebäude #architektur #architekturfotografie #architecture #bayern #travel #weitwinkel #germany #tagesausflug #citytrip #rokoko #park #romantic #lightroom #travelblogger #9euroticket #städtetrip #städtereise #frankenland . . @dasistwuerzburg @spotted.wuerzburg_ @wuerzburglieben @wuerzburg_de @travel @bayern @franken.leben @deutschland @deutschland.liebe @deutschlandseite @deutschland_greatshots @deutschlandviews @raw_germany @raw_community @alles_deutschland @deutschlandkarte @ig_deutschland @sony.deutschland @germanalphas @sonyalpha @bayernguide @bayernliebe_official @wanderlust_franken (hier: Würzburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfOhrF9DvkP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[setdeco]

NIKOLAUS VON PACASSI & JOHANN FERDINAND HETZENDORF VON HOHENBERG, Garden Palace Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, 1743 - 1805

[jpelsous]

Cruce de las calles Carrera, Judíos y Santa Apolonia, con las portadas del testero de la Catedral de Lima, labradas en 1732. #lima #igerslima #peru #igersperu #barroco #baroque #barocco #barock #arquitectura #architettura #architecturephotography #architecture #archilife #virreinato #virreinal #colonial #patrimonio #patrimoniocultural #patrimoniomundial #heritage #worldheritage (en Historic Centre of Lima) https://www.instagram.com/p/CouYDaprOvu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dashalbrundezimmer]

ursulinen church corpus christi // köln kunibertsviertel

architect: matteo alberti

completion: 1712

[herfaveblogger]

Strahov Library - Prague, Czech Republic

[kararadaygum]

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[faradaysketches]

Karlsruhe Palace Gatehouse. February 2021 I sheltered in the other gatehouse from the snow.

[prioritiies]

P a l a c e

[fashionstudytravel]

Fell in love with Louvre, all the beautiful halls, the barock style. That's one of many pictures I took there. If you're a fan of art and museums Louvre must be on your bucket list ♥️

[vlad-photography-art]

Barock church