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Who's afraid of fierce Bauhaus?


With its eternal white suit, Tom Wolfe is like a caricature of a Southern gentleman in the very Upper East Side, a look perhaps more appropriate to sample a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby a Panama hat or fedora Borsalino, which to stroll through the gray and dirty New York.

A Wolfe ( From Bauhaus to Our House , 1981) does not appear that Grace did the arrival of the gurus of the Bauhaus to the U.S. after the Nazis closed the school that was based in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin: More fans monumentality of Albert Speer, architect of the Reich official, who for the aesthetic revolution the "less is more , the Nazis threw into the arms of the Americans with Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hannes Meyer, along with other architects and artists fudamentales to understand the art of the twentieth century, who landed in country (Meyer went to Mexico) and developed his aesthetic approach from Chicago or from the school of architecture at Harvard. According to the curious

criterion Wolfe, the glass-boxes that projected one after another, and whose influence has led to skyline of cities such as New York, Toronto or Chicago, disagreed with the traditional American architecture.

not know what that traditional American architecture, because I do not refer to the English style so fashionable at the time (and still is) in California or Florida and as the name suggests, is English. Nor should refer to French-style mansions of the Confederate States, whose name is so precisely because they are just that: French.

So if traditional American architecture Tom Wolfe understands the tipis of the Sioux, I understand that the building Seagram's (super gin, by the way) to Park Avenue and designed precisely by Mies van der Rohe, it is too similar to the tent in which Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull prepared the battle of Little Big Horn and ended with Custer's cavalry.

Wolfe is a bit given the social melodrama but not stupid, so I guess you are referring for instance to Frank Lloyd Wright or Richard Neutra as "traditional American architects, not realizing that both projects would have signed the Bauhaus and vice versa: if Taliesin, the school-residence of Lloyd Wright, integrated place, use and function in what he called "organic architecture" (nothing more organic architecture Fallingwater house ), on the other " how follows function" was the maximum recommended by Mies. Nothing new under the sun shine at the Bauhaus in Weimar or the Taliesin in Wisconsin.

While Tom Wolfe, the influence of Staatliches Bauhaus in architecture, interior design, and art in general to this day, it is essential and extremely important. Wolfe may have at his home in Park Avenue a chair designed by the Americans Charles and Ray Eames, who in the 50s developed concepts and advanced, for example, on chairs or Barcelona Brno Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (created the first for the German pavilion at the exhibition, 1929), or chair Vassily Marcel Breuer designed to Vassily Kandinsky while both were teachers in Bauhaus itself. Both pieces could be signed by the Eames smoothly thirty years later, and then be "traditionally American" would be to the liking of Wolfe.

In an article published there, I have defended the power of architecture to change the perception that the world has over a city. If it had not built Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao as it did (although it is very little or no Bauhaus) and was based on the traditional architecture of Vizcaya, now would be a huge farmhouse in the middle of Bilbao, a woefully inadequate building to house an exhibition of Alexander Calder, for example. And even less adequate to show the "Puppy" by Jeff Koons that guards the entrance. And above all, Bilbao not attract hundreds of thousands of tourists every year who go to see how they change color titanium plates of the building by time of day. Although a village museum can be as good as any other building (see Chillida Leku Hernani), does not transform the life of a city, what can we do. Bilbao

attracts tourists: Are we crazy or what? Is the world upside down? I do not know who fears the Bauhaus fierce, but The Bocho ears applaud the decision to commission the museum to Gehry, the bridge and the airport Calatrava (even with the controversy), the towers and underground Isozaki Foster .

When we go to see a city is mostly architecture that we admire, is a Gothic cathedral or the Eiffel Tower (although it was a chemical engineer Gustave Eiffel, not an architect). The transformation of cities like Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMadrid, Valencia and Zaragoza in recent years in the hands of Top-10 of world architecture (including almost all living Pritzker Prize), has made Spain a sort of outdoor museum of contemporary architecture, such as Chicago or New York as to the architecture of the post-Bauhaus. Talks of 'normal' people in any large city and truffled English names appear as Moneo, Jean Nouvel, Pelli, Hadid, Piano, Koolhaas ... besides those I have named.

architecture is probably the most influential of the arts, along with literature. If it can form and transform our thinking and therefore to act, the architecture affects our environment and how we interact with it. The quality of our environment determines our quality of life (Norman Foster). We move in cities constrained by the architecture, be brilliant or mediocre. We can not spend it as we go (although not find a reason) for painting, for example. Architects and planners are thus becoming the creators of us to enjoy or hate our immediate environment, but ultimately, and precisely because of the enormous importance of architecture are his real political control and therefore responsible for the enjoyment or hatred our urban environment. With the literature can not even attempt it every day. But that's another story.

Speaking of architecture, in many cases a city museum is a work of art in itself so that the continent needs to be part of exposure, even more important than the content. In addition to the Guggenheim, we can not forget the CARS in Madrid, Moneo and Nouvel in two different times, Thyssen de Madrid and remodeling of the Palace of the Dukes of Villahermosa was Moneo also work, or that a new Prado Rafael Moneo added more space to complement the Villanueva building. The architect Navarre seems to have the monopoly of the museums of Madrid, although he instruct Gallardón Alvaro Siza remodeling the Prado-Recoletos, which vary our perception of Moneo's work significantly.

Expo Zaragoza also had some impact in Spain, but what the rest of the world knows or is known -Bridge Pavilion by Zaha Hadid . This construction can take decades for the city an impact comparable to the Eiffel Tower was to Paris. Zaragoza is not saying that Paris, spoke of the importance for the city. And once I said "kill me Mañolandia , but sometimes things are done quite well.

I do not know if a version Wolfe dilettante rather sip a ginger cake or rhubarb in the porch of a French-style mansion in his native Virginia, while listening to the gentle cooing of the songs of the slaves on the plantation. Or maybe I just let him savor your mint julep on Tavern on the Green in Central Park, a very likely site of your choice. In any case, your millions of dollars he would not have to sleep in a tipi , traditional American architecture "authentic."

Meanwhile, with a rod or a cold and without clarita mint julep (I prefer a mojito, and posts), others enjoy the transformation of our cities, aware that the wonders we see (I recognize that not all cases, abuses committed in the name of "modern architecture") originated in a school of applied arts and architecture founded near Weimar. And yes, course also in Frank Lloyd Wright. And Antonio Gaudí. And others that probably do not like to Wolfe.

Bauhaus I do not fear the fierce ... Do you?.

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Some come, others go out ... and among the din, I pours in financial Permafrost


Following the agreement reached to clean up banks U.S. and Europe, we get the G-20 summit to redesign the financial system in the next fifty years. mode of Bretton Woods XXI century the summit November to be avoided in the future as the current financial crisis. Not succeed, because the bankers back to designing products and derivatives that within 15 years will once again lead to a situation like the present, or worse.

What is happening now, as I said before, is but the continuation of the tools designed in the 80s. If derivatives are now considerably more sophisticated than junk bonds devised by Michael Milken in Drexell , what awaits us in the next decade will leave subprime mortgages and their coverage as child's play. I hope this blog remains open then, to bring up this post and previous show that "I said" (a phrase I hate, but you're right).

Shouting " greed is good " Milken, Boesky , Levine and other white-collar thieves ruin to millions of savers who had come to the high returns of products. The crash of 87 was fully comparable to the present, if not more. One difference: globalized market contagion make it immediate and worldwide. If you have a stock exchange on Mars, the Martians would be ruined by subprime mortgages on its craters (Although the English construction and would take years to build apartments on Mars and elsewhere in the galaxy). In short, the 80s was not worse or better than that, just playing then and now plays. And will be playing again in fifteen or twenty years. Our leader cosmic

ZETAPAD , meanwhile, is completely devoted to be at the meeting next month. Want to get in the shot and is traveling this week in the last five years. It's pathetic efforts of our leader for taking a picture with rich friends and some poor who will go to U.S. .

Spain, the eighth largest economy in the world will not be present at the conference, and will not be for the same reason that no one was in the "mini-summit " January : Because ZETAPAD not paint anything on the international scene. And not look for their own damn fault.

Years of playing balls to the U.S., France, Germany, Italy ... the entire global world. And the last few days have not helped, and again insisting that the blame of all Americans, and that we are here to save the world. Yesterday the White Cucumber ineffable, while resting vomiting of disgust that gives Real Madrid, made an invaluable service to Spain insists that ZETAPAD must ESAR at the meeting because the fault is the U.S.. Thus, making friends last minute. Only comparable to the ineffable Miguel Sebastian, the never sufficiently weighted-sweep ex-candidate for mayor of Madrid, which also said yesterday that "there are only 13 days Bush, spending soon." You are correct that we finally got rid of Bush, but at the community of neighbors, it is unlikely that the 5 th B inviting us to your party if you remember in each neighborhood council that the above takes out the garbage at inappropriate times, and also robs the attic of the car magazine that every month she receives in the mailbox.

Now ZETAPAD just go, hurry up and running, the EU Summit -Asia, collect (rather to beg) support for their presence. But the key is what the hell makes ZETAPAD the meeting? Absolutely nothing. In fact, if I was not asking to go to U.S. even been dropped by the summit, there will be several European leaders. And is that foreign policy is so ZETAPAD pathetic is matched only by his equally pathetic domestic policy. So what interest can be Gordon Brown , Nicolas Sarkozy , Silvio Berlusconi (collejas another to give to and do not stop) and Angela Merkel in the presence of ZETAPAD ? What are the recipes that can bring the undocumented to the global crisis? But is it a crisis? Is not that a slowdown?

By size of GDP , as one of the ten largest issuers of foreign investment, the strength of banks, for the effective regulation of BoS ... for many reasons Spain would quietly place the U.S. Summit. However, the visionary ZETAPAD not found interesting into the G8. Our Leader considered more interesting to talk with leaders like banana Chavez , Kirschner, Evo Morales, Correa or Castro to do with world leaders. In fact, the President of Spain should be one of those world leaders, as was Aznar not so long ago. González Aznar or as men of state, would not be any problem at the first guests.

Now go get the impression though, is to be the guy to be invited to a wedding commitment. You know, that Aunt second coñazo to inviting, but it feels far from the main table in the children's table. There, all he does is eat and get rolls in the bag, because what happens will not even notice or tell anyone.

Or worse, the impression is the one at school at the party. That is possibly the most pathetic of all. I imagine a waiter at the Plaza in New York to see him and ask " sorry sir, could you show me your invitation? ." There is no danger, my command of Norwegian is better than English ZETAPAD, so will the clueless or to remove Moratinos will attend.

did not invite me, but I was ... around the corner, waited for the moment, do not watch me, and get inside ...

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The permafrost ground is that in areas like Siberia , is permanently frozen (hence the name, permanent - permanent and - frost, ice cream). Occasionally, I get a frozen mammoth, a brontosaurus bone arrowheads or upper Pleistocene. Now that

permafrost and is neither permanent nor frozen. It seems that climate change is beginning to soften the ground and turn it into a kind of vast sea of \u200b\u200bmud in which more aperecerán mammoths more fibulae of brontosaurus, and more arrowheads. Now we can call " Avecesfrost ."

a couple of years ago, on the occasion of three trips to Siberia I got to see the famous frozen Siberian steppes from the plane. That was when I managed to forget that I was aboard a Tupolev of Aeroflot made in the seventies, and we could fall at any moment. There were leaks (no exaggeration) and reassuring noises. Beside a Spanair flight is a Ferrari ride . The show was awesome , although know that scares aircraft could fall into the area where the last time you saw a human being could have for centuries. And that could end up buried in the sea of \u200b\u200bsticky mud making company to the mammoth where I might find within 7,000 years and scientists argue over the remains of my beautiful jersey of navy cashmere.

Now I have not to worry: Europe, U.S. , Japan, Asia ... Worldwide melts under our feet in a debacle with their only precedents in the stock market crisis of 1929 and 1987 (the October 19, 1987 the DJ fell more than 26%, or is that there is still fabric.) No I have to go to Siberia and get on an old plane that had to go on vacation Tsar Nicholas II to be buried in a thick, sticky mud.

say this financial crisis is only comparable to the Great Depression of the 30's. However I see major differences: For example in 1929 the bankers committed suicide by jumping from the roofs and upper floors of buildings in Lower Manhattan . If they had buried in the nearby Battery Park , now that would be a tourist attraction, not just a tiny oasis in the city and the site where you take the ferry to Liberty and Ellis Island .

But now the bankers take advantage of the debacle to go on holiday on account of the companies that have collapsed. For example, executives of AIG spent a weekend half a million euros in a hotel a few days ago. The Belgian Fortis , more spartan, were limited to a meal in the most expensive hotel Montecarlo by the tightest figure of 150,000 euros: Security in the end managed to close a menu for all to share with them first out cheaper. There is no way to think about shareholders, savers and taxpayers in general belt-tightening in these moments of uncertainty.

is also what must have thought AIG executives " If you have a manicure and pedicure without the new Patek Philippe platinum going to give us the bank is "

As I write this the IBEX 35 falls by 9.5% to below 8,900. Other major European indicators also fall to lead, and DJ yesterday and the Nikkei tonight have been just panicked. The measures being taken are useless because investors think that if they take it because there are far worse back. And if nothing is done, they also think that nothing is done to stop this. In short, money is a coward as they say: money is a shit scared shitless fleeing by foot to a minimum. And I guess it does well: maybe the best mattress on top of a steering Wall Street asking Petrus 1995 at a company account and provides up by the suckers who have paid.

a positive note might be that low oil prices ... but is that the gas hardly move. The excuse of the oil companies is that their stocks are purchased at high prices a few weeks ago, but when it goes up you do not say they have bought at the lowest price previous cheap: It seems that the Chinese had little hidden suppliers and connected to internet , which raised the price of unleaded 95 each time the oil price rose a penny. Now with the crisis, is shed from the Chinese suppliers and no one to download.

Finally fixing things, the IMF predicts a recession in Spain in 2009 which represents a drop of our nominal GDP of 0.2%, in line with countries such as Italy, UK or Ireland. And contraction is extremely serious if not from there in 2010, takes strength to grow back. But in 2010 will our leader cosmic ZETAPAD I "The Pathetic" in power (of course I hope that in addition to ZETAPAD I ZETAPAD also be last) and his deputy Solbes "The pert." That means that in 2010 in Spain will not be made real. It also means that ZETAPAD will not be called to the mountains where things are decided: Our beloved leader is making friends around the world, and so it goes.

So we should not be overly optimistic: In play in the Champions League of the world economy just a year ago, are now trying to stay in first division. Moving to Italy in GDP per capita ... continue to forward only because they make it even worse. And it is terrible to say this, but I think I prefer the Prime Minister to ZP that Berlusconi: At least we do not touch the ass of the Members who are good at their discretion old green.

theory and practice say the crisis is not in itself a bad thing, but something has to come cyclical to cleanse the system. But as we learn (or learn too well), what happens now is just the evolution of what happened in 1987. In this horror stock, which were paid excess characters like Michael Milken or Ivan Boesky , the kings of junk bonds from Drexel Burnham Lambert flooded the bond market as toxic as subprime mortgages now we drown. The new mechanisms have been more sophisticated, but have exploded in four Idaho sad farmers have stopped paying mortgages on their farms.

And in Spain? Well, I do not know how many subprime mortgages in Spain, but does not that sound to give 120% of the appraised value of a house for the purchase of a BMW and go to their holy / or vacation to Cancun or another site where could find up to reponedor of Carrefour ? For all that (also the BMW and travel) must be paid now price Euribor mortgage updated. And if you now have to pay twice as much as three years ago, and did not arrive ... because you're the lucky owner of a beautiful subprime mortgage . I know it.

The permafrost melts under our feet. Nothing new under the sun, on the other.

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The Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt this morning managed to beat the world record in the 100 meter dash with a time of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix, hosted by the New Yorker Ichan Stadium. Bolt and lowered the mark of 9.74 seconds achieved in September by his compatriot Asafa Powell. The new world record holder for 21 years silver medal at the world championship 200 meters, took advantage and at the start and crossed the finish line ahead of actual campeón mundial, Tyson Gay.




El plusmarquista caribeño demostró su potencial y gran estado de forma sobre el tartán azul para cruzar la meta en 9.72 segundos, trece centésimas más rápido que el norteamericano, que tuvo un tiempo de llegada de 9.85 segundos. Tras cruzar la meta, Bolt reflejó su alegría y reconoció exultante que "confíaba en que podía correr en marca de récord del mundo", por lo que el resultado iba a suponer un importante espaldarazo moral a su preparación, pues "no venía aquí buscando una plusmarca mundial, pero vino hoy y hay que aprovecharla".


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However, Bolt brand comes as a surprise, because this month and ran the 100 meters in 9.76. Bolt achieved with this brand a boost to his career, which took a significant turn two years ago when he asked his coach to let him make the leap to MF, not wanting to continue running in the 400 meters. Fans attending the meeting organized by Reebok had to wait to enjoy the track, since Bolt's world record was begging. Thus, the meeting began with an hour late because of the storm threat lurking in the area, to which was added another 45 minutes required to break the strong electrical device that you downloaded in the area.

However, the ray in New York yesterday that the Jamaican sprinter lanky 1.96 meters, which suggests that even further can lower his mark, as there was a good start, being apperceived after a false start. The staging of Bolt capped a magical night for the sprinters in Jamaica, as world champion Campbell-Brown also won the women's 100 meters, registering also the best time of year to sign a notable time of 10.91 seconds, two hundredth better than the record set by American Allyson Felix this year.

addition, the American pole Jenn Stuczynski took a leading part in getting the event, and even assaulted three times the world record with the bar set at 5.02 meters with a mark of 4.80. Other stars who shone at the meeting were U.S. World Cup bronze in the 200 meters, Wallace Spearmon, who won in 20.07 seconds and the Kenyan Paul Koech signing the best record in the 3000m steeplechase on U.S. soil with a time of 8: 01.85 seconds.