Federico Babina proposed us a Times Square vision with ARCHIQUOTE
09/12/2014.
ARCHIQUOTE
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Like advertisements in Las Vegas Federico Babina proposed us famous quotes as roadside advertisements or Times Square advertisements. From quotes as "Less is more" by Mies van der Rohe or "Form follows beauty" by Oscar Niemeyer are some of the architect quotes (famous or not) reimagined in this illustrations series by Italian graphic designer Federico Babina, based in Barcelona.
Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Never forget to play" by Alvar Aalto. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Nothing is art if it does not come" by Antoni Gaudí. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"If a building becomes architecture then it is art" by Arne Jacobsen. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Take your pleasure" by Charles and Ray Eames. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Space is the breath of art" by Frank Lloyd Wright. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"The Styles are a Lie" by Le Corbusier. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"I think Architecture has to be a Gift" by Jean Nouvel. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
Every building must have its own soul" by Louis Kahn. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all" by Luis Barragan. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Less is more" by Mies van der Rohe. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Form follows beauty" by Oscar Niemeyer. By Federico Babina. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Find optimism in the inevitable" by Rem Koolhaas. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
"Architecture begins where engineering ends" by Walter Gropious. Archiquote series by © Federico Babina.
This new series by Federico Babina, Archiquote, are 13 quotes by some of the 20th century best known architects, from Alvar Aalto to Rem Koolhaas, and transforms them into colourful signposts remembering the Las Vegas' iconographic, the famous trip and book "Learning from las Vegas" by Robert Venturi, Dennis Scott Brown and their students in 1972.
"The idea behind the project was to put words into manifest examples of concepts and aesthetics of some architects, as advertising signs that relate architectural thought. These 13 illustrations mix, intersect and integrate aphorisms and shapes in a communicative game."
"The architects find in words an additional means and a valuable tool to explain and express their work. They become part of the architecture with the same explosive power of a built volume."
Federico Babina. His recent works are also about projects by famous architects.
