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HEAD SHEET METAL APRIL 2011: THE INSTITUTE OF THE ARAB WORLD, by Jean Nouvel in Paris

During the month of April 2011 the head of select you have been a photograph of the south facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe, Jean Nouvel located in Paris. We had already discussed this in the entry building devoted to contemporary architecture Paris : The IMA is without doubt one of the contemporary buildings worth visiting in the French capital, which stood at NOUVEL in the list of the greats.

The Arab World Institute was inaugurated in 1987 (in '81 was called the contest, and construction began in '84). It consists of two sections separated by a deep rift and a square courtyard (the plant interesting, very interesting): the body looks north toward the Seine and is shaped like a knife, with the curved facade. The south, however, is an almost regular parallelepiped with the famous facade mobile lattice work according to the external light by photoelectric cells (broken for some time, or at least without movement, according to my data.) In front of this facade is the entrance plaza also known, in one end, next to Boulevard Saint-Germain, his unique point of access in white marble with these recesses that can bring to mind a maze or an Arab medina . Inside the building are impressive lighting effects and transparencies, which relate the spaces and boundaries blur.

impressive And the situation of the Arab World Institute and Riverfront St Louis, and views from the upper terrace.

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NATIONAL MUSEUM Decorative Arts in Madrid

After my visits to Cerralbo Museum and the Museum of Romanticism , I thought it might be reasonable to return to the Museum of Decorative Arts, because I find some relationship between the three. It is a museum that already knew: some time ago visited the permanent collection more recently was in a temporary exhibition , but in truth, was not very fresh, only to go back the rooms have been remembering.

The ground and first floors are dedicated temporary exhibitions, which this time had relatively little to say the "substance: not deserve further comment.

On the second floor you can see the reproduction of some rooms in a seventeenth century house, I found interesting, well recreated and well explained. On the same floor, rooms with gold and jewelry, and pottery pieces, fabrics (I always catch the eye: I saw them in this line of mine ... smaller museums -bother anyone, please, I have to COSTUME MUSEUM return to) and work leather covers DOLPHIN TREASURE can be seen in the Prado, and pieces of leather.

In the third and fourth floors, furniture mainly eighteenth and something of the early nineteenth century. Longer stays are recreated, but which pieces, sometimes loose and sometimes composing small sets, which makes it all less contextualized, though not without appeal. He remembered quite clearly the Neapolitan Nativity Scene, with its exaggerated bottom of columns, and instead had no fun in Valencian cuisine head completely finished with decorated ceramics. There is also a room dedicated to the well achieved REAL GLASS FACTORY FARM.

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the Cerralba and the Museum of Romanticism, the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS I found suggestive: it is much less a museazo (formerly the Museum described as minor, and I think the rating is very just), but allows you to view and place pieces everyday manifesting the desire of anyone, at any time, to live surrounded by tasteful, well designed and crafted objects to the smallest detail. The art house is not (always) whim, nor is (always) vain, nor is (always) way to demonstrate wealth and social status. It is not (only) channel for the catechesis of the Church and for state propaganda. Many times (not always) sensitivity, for many (dare I to say all) is extremely rewarding, and (for some) a real need.

I missed, yes, a good section of parts of the twentieth century, a period in which you can find stunning designs, true masterpieces: I think it is a very serious gap in the Museum. Without going further in the brochure cover what appears is not a photograph of a neoclassical furniture, but the Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld, neoplastic, designed in 1918, and went up the stairs as you see, it is true that among other things, is the Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe, 1929. I asked in information and was told that actually had these pieces, but who were not exposed because the temporary exhibition halls were busy, a situation that gives real shame and I hope is temporary. The same person told me, with little precision, it must be said that in May, beginning an exposure that will include such pieces (or parts of those: I suppose he meant modern / contemporary). I am here.

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interesting topics for BLOG: 5 Arts & Crafts (Octavio Ocampo / wheat chaff)

Art- the Latin ars - is a human cultural activity of a creative nature, expressing ideas and feelings through various resources. It is synonymous with ability, skill and talent.

Artist is he who produces a work of art. Among the visual arts-painting is create images through pigment- classifying an artistic genre painters, which is the subject specialization that characterizes it.

A notable example artist is the Mexican-born Celaya, Guanajuato in 1943 - Octavio Ocampo, a painter and sculptor known for his painting metamorphic, which plays with images, figures and independent life of its own, which eventually form a whole a new figure.

In its work, optical illusion based on the metamorphosis and ambiguity of images, masterfully juxtaposes the art of visual metamorphosis of different images into one, making a striking effect.

Fortunately for us, almost in the family had the opportunity to admire the exhibition "Metamorphic Centennial" at the Casino English in Mexico as stated in the photograph of the Artist Jaime mentioned.

Crafts artist-in- manus is a craft that gets similar products, but not identical, derived from a manual technique that produces goods individually creative. The craft is a compromise between design and art.

I encountered in Pasto, Nariño Department, Republic of Colombia an attractive craft: the plated chaff to the decor of all kinds of wooden objects.

The chaff or straw is the product of threshing grain or lint follows from linen, cotton or wool. In San Juan de Pasto in southern Colombia using wheat straw subjected to heat-coloring process, getting different ranges, between the natural color of straw and dark brown.

Using a scalpel, the straw is partly along for thin plates with fragments of which the artisan creates intricate patterns and textures.

The bases on which are painted with aniline decorating and finishing catalyzed lacquers are used.

This traditional technique of ornamentation requires great patience, precision and delicacy of the fragile material

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the Danube, by Claudio Magris

a long-years-had the Danube in the head. When Anagrama published it in 1988, and I heard of this title, though not always in the same direction: for some it was a gem, others a brick. At the time it ojeé and not tempted me too. But a few weeks ago I recommend him again, and I decided to go. Now that I'm done I fully understand that very disparate range of views, from the undisputed jewel more infumable block. A unique book, THE DANUBE. A long text, like a river, sometimes fast flowing and colorful, bright, energetic ... and other slow, slow, dull or dense.

on the Danube, Claudio Magris the Italian Germanic tells a trip along the whole river, more than 2800 kilometers from its sources in the German town of Donaueschingen (or is Furtwangen?) In Forest Black, to its mouth in the Romanian town of Sulina, on the Black Sea. Wherever he goes the river goes shelled Magris more or less detail, not always well-depth history, events and people associated with the place. And, in turn, will reflect the character and genius Central, sometimes Prussian other result of the Austrian Empire, others of Slavic, Magyar and Balkan.

The great strength of the Danube is, in my view, the richness and variety of what she told us: There are some very wise about travel considerations and the fact of traveling, and brings to mind spectacular sites, destinations those who go or destinations that you know (I have enjoyed, for example, recalling my visit to the monastery of Melk, or the Cafe Hawelka and Karl-Marx-Hof: Part of Vienna can be a great alternative guide to tour the city). Makes many reflections on life itself that are very suggestive, very attractive descriptions of places, story telling, legends and very enjoyable event, presentation of characters (the world of literature, politics, science) really varied and interesting . It is, without doubt, very illustrative of the culture and life of central and eastern Europe, a Europe with a rich history alive, by the way, has changed since he published his Magris Danube in 1986.

The problem is not always maintain that level of success, suggestion, attractive, amenity and interest. Surely this is a personal problem, but the text is so cultivated -although nothing pedantic, I must say, that sometimes quote, comment and itemizes over issues and personalities very central and East-European, unknown to the reader (I insist, at least for me): I must admit that I have traveled very comfortable in Germany, Austria and Slovakia, but it cost me to travel Magris the hand of the political culture and the Yugoslav, Romanian and Bulgarian, or the otherwise, I lost a chance to go into this land, unknown to me. As the book is long, it fails to get you the everything is true that it reads well, it is true that it is entertaining, even when the reader knows who or what he is talking because he is not familiar with the names or events, it is true that, as the text is divided into chapters short, it is easy to stop if you saturate ... but it is, let alone a book of those who are willing to have a free moment to read more, or you can spend a ratazo followed.

Returning to what I said earlier, I believe the Danube is a jewel more than a brick, because it's really interesting and enriching. I really liked and I'm glad I read it, but I understand that some to be a suckling pig. Can not think of reading as one reads DANUBE a soap opera: a travel book to be placed on the shelf most of the tests in the stories, and I say this now that I've finished but I have not done so, perhaps it should be read slowly, without haste, even without strict continuity: I think that is one of those books, I have found few, reasonably compatible with others.

I Magris a comment that caught my attention: Budapest. I note in my list of places remaining. "Budapest is the most beautiful city on the Danube, a wise self-staging, as in Vienna, but with a strong substance and vitality unknown in the Austrian rival. Budapest gives the physical sensation of capital, with a manor and a city authority protagonist of the story ... "

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CHARDIN 1699-1779, in the Prado Museum in Madrid

Magnificent exposure. And great against all odds, I must admit I was not expecting much. On the one hand because I did not know Jean Siméon Chardin, which only speaks of my greatest artistic shortcomings, and partly because a couple of weeks ago I was invited to visit the typical "private" to the Museum, courtesy of a company unknown to me : I was a companion, and finally Travel-related but before the English came, we CHARDIN shown two rooms, and I do not say much. In any case, I intended to return, what not to miss opportunities. I was again last weekend and was fascinated. A discovery.

CHARDIN 1699-1779 is an exhibition that is gathering strength as you walk through the halls, as you will see the technical and thematic painter. Will captivate the visitor in a quiet but inevitable. When you see the first hare, or La Raya, think that ... well, well without more, a little awkward even. But then come other hares, and more hunting, and still lifes of ordinary objects resolved with great delicacy, and then the human figure, self-absorbed and kind, the room of the three children and Lady taking tea is to be hours and later again, still lifes, hares, and flowers are jewels, baskets of fruit. And you just see the fifty-odd paintings that are believed to have made a giant discovery, leaving excited and moved there after having traveled the work of a master serene, poetic, intimate, subtle, restrained and with great sensitivity.

is at least as I went.

links here provides information page on CHARDIN PRADO MUSEUM 1699-1779 He is, as always, very complete, and it's worth spending some time.

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THE RENOVATION OF THE PALACE OF MADRID

probably should start where you finish: saying that this post is the second version that I write about the REMODELING OF THE PALACE OF MADRID. I rearranged several paragraphs of the original, and above all I changed some opinions in the description of the building, views that I maintain, but I prefer to hold back because they could be hasty and unfair. The result of the entry is more bland, and also more cautious. Of course, retain the first text. You never know, maybe in a few months and those views are not precipitated, resulting strictly true, my criticism tight ... and then encourage me to publish in Select.

the Communications Palace is one of the most iconic buildings of Madrid's architecture. Designed and built by twigs and JULIAN PALACIOS ANTONIO OTAMENDI between 1904 and 1917, answered that such a unique style by PALACIOS, easily referable to the historicism in force at the start of the twentieth century in the English cultural world, but with no academic performance, very proper and very plastic.

a couple of Sundays ago, I think it coincided with the opening, or at least open to the public, I was not looking to the Central Post Office (as of now it looks like Cibeles Palace ) visited, passed through the plaza, I saw that it could happen and, as I was with some time, I went, then I'm back, to revisit and take pictures. As you know, much of the building will be used (or already used: I asked and they knew me because of this) as the town hall, but the truth is that one does not see anywhere municipal offices: I guess that will be in the body that opens to the street of Alcala, which overlooking the inner courtyard, and forming the corner of Paseo del Prado Street Montalbán.

What ordinary citizens can visit the massive central body, which opens onto the Plaza de Cibeles, with its cross-shaped floor and up to 5 levels high topped with central dome which dominates the building seen from the Plaza. The space is spectacular, super and the building of OTAMENDI-PALACIOS although the set is not particularly complex: perimeter corridors and in the intermediate level walkways between them in the central area. Rehabilitation, successful, and very respectful of the original building, say the authors of the project, the team ARQUIMÁTICA. In my opinion a little too cakes, but I guess / hope the weather improves the feeling of cream pie now has everything. The first impression is in any case, very showy. Not to leave it to the final, certainly recommend a visit.

acknowledge that climbed to the lookout tower level 8: I would love for sure the view is superb (I am among those who think any high light, or air, it's worth no doubt you can always go there to climb), but the tail was daunting and I had, in one of the two occasions, neither time nor inclination to do it. Just do not quit coming up on another occasion. I went up the elevator to level 6 (where the change is made to continue to lift up to the lookout) and from there I started down the stairs. It goes without saying that the elevators are available at all levels but, whenever possible, I prefer to see a building through it, download it on foot.

Level 5 corresponds to the upper gallery that completes the interior facades, with clear references to Renaissance loggias copy both the English during our period of NEOS which we have referred to select you . Perhaps the solution close to the ambulatory glass interior is clumsy, with those boxes of carpentry as little subtle. We are at the height of the new boot patio cover, we see from the windows.

From here You can get down the stairs of one of the side towers (from inside the left: the right suspect it must be for use by the Mayor) with tiled walls with colorful ceramic pieces. At level 4 we find these gateways we were talking about earlier, with decorated glass block floor (and eye, extremely slippery: I do not comply with the rules in any way, but you know, home of the blacksmith wooden knife ...). It is worth looking at the domes covering the central circulation: are these cakes which I spoke above, but also attractive, no doubt. The exhibition areas, very empty for now.

At level 3, an anecdote: a bug in the movement of the plant. The route is not closed (no step on the front door), and the right tower ladder we have said that is not accessible, which, if the visitor comes to this plant by the left tower, complete the plant runs wants to walk down, when the end has no choice to undo all our steps. You can always use the elevator at the end of their way, of course. Option that would be very reasonable ... if the elevator stopped, and the crowded floor to be overlooking the dome, seen as they pass booth after booth-glass lets see all huddled together, and he is changing the face until he decides to recognize that there is nothing to do ( abandon all hope), let wait and retrace his steps. A minor problem and certainly timely in any event, will happen only during times of high visitor.

Level 2 is the customer service-before and now, and interpretation of the building and rehabilitation (resolved with explanatory panels that are well made) . Counters have maintained, and hosted some unique areas, each storage opal glass, very neutral to the fund, and other reading, relaxation and information to the front, very colorful, so much about me other issues seem to be successful. At level 1 (which is down from the entrance level), plus exhibition area. And on level -1, the auditorium.

It is worth looking in the windows that cover each of the three arms, most of the time. In riveted steel structure, light, bold, then, and sincere. And in the auxiliary lamps, railings, counters, etc. While not the ultimate, have their interest. Those familiar the building of the Post Office Vienna, Otto Wagner, surely remember some details of that building later reinterpreted in PALACIO PALACIOS COMMUNICATIONS: also have spoken on this blog PALACIOS relationship with the Vienna Secession . If anyone is interested, here can still see photographs of the building ...

And finally, the use of it: cultural, of course ... As I read in print (and copy as it is written by the journalist), " Of the 60,000 square foot Palais de Cibeles, 20,000 are administrative units. The additional 40,000 area exhibition area, tourist information and cultural center of Madrid.. " For now there is no comet.

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INTERESTING ITEMS FOR BLOG: 4 Second Generation Biofuels

Today, Friday, April 1, 2011, was carried out successfully, the first test flight, commercial aviation in Mexico, bioturbosina activated. The demonstration Airbus left the International Airport of Mexico City and landed on Tuxtla Gutierrez Chiapas , a distance of 803 miles of "green flight."

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The feedstock used is oil Jatropha curcas of which is planted 12 500 hectares in seven nurseries and eight orchards in Chiapas, with three thousand producers with capacity of 67 million gallons per year. It

know already conducted pilot flying around the world with airlines such as Japan Airlines, Continental Airlines , Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand .

SECOND GENERATION BIOFUELS

production of renewable energy through liquid fuels from biomass as an alternative to fossil fuels has accelerated dynamics, both by the rising price of oil as its inevitable depletion and from limited sources.

Among the fossil fuels, generating greenhouse gases, oil will run out sooner, while the natural gas and coal will reach for a rather long time. In the long term solar energy and wind predominate as energy sources.

The development of biofuels began in the seventies with the production of bioethanol in Brazil from sugarcane and the United States from corn. The biofuel first generation produced from sugar or starch, vegetable oil and animal fats.

demand first-generation biofuels had a substantial influence on the rise in food prices, caused release of large amounts of CO 2 of soil and biomass existing offsetting advantages the biofuels .

second generation biofuel is a global concept that encompasses a wide variety of fuels and technologies with a large number of variants. The

second-generation biofuels are liquid fuels made from lignocellulosic biomass of plants produced from raw materials that are not food sources can be any type of plant biomass from agricultural or wood waste to energy crops specific.

Their processing requires advanced technologies such as breaking the lignocellulose to get sugar, fermenting it, get bioethanol or thermochemical processes of gasification of biomass for synthetic biodiesel. The lignin After the cellulose is the second most abundant organic substance on the planet.

The advantages of second-generation biofuels are : Low level of emissions with improved environmental impact, higher yields per acre, it is possible to exploit the total biomass, including wastes.

Many scientists believe that algae are the most suitable plants for the production of biofuels they present a high performance, growing up in sewage and sea water and do not need much water, sunlight and CO 2 to grow (they are the fastest growing plants the world).

new crop planting on marginal lands unsuitable for traditional agriculture can ease competition for land.

The three early second generation biofuels are: Do not use food for human beings or animals, no land for growing produce, do not use water for irrigation or human consumption and reduce as a significant major greenhouse gas emissions.

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Jatropha curcas

Euphorbiacea poisonous native of Mexico (Chiapas) and Central America, with medicinal properties, is grown in tropical and subtropical the world, resistant to drought, can grow in deserts may live up to forty years for its features pesticides and fungicides .

until recently had been their natural vegetative propagation by seed, but now its cultivation, is of particular interest because it is simple, it can thrive in gravel, sand, saline soils, poor and stony, also playing techniques clonales mediante estacas, injertos y acodo aéreo, que permiten la propagación comercial de esta planta.

Sus semillas contienen un aceite no comestible (27 a 40% de petróleo) que puede usarse como combustible en lámparas y motores de combustión, pudiendo convertirse en biodiesel mediante un proceso de transesterificación .

Una hectárea de plantación puede producir de 400 a 600 litros de biodiesel . Las semillas en la zona alrededor de Misantla , Veracruz , son muy apreciadas como alimento una vez que han sido cocidas y asadas, no quedando claro si se debe a la existencia de una nontoxic range or if the cooking process makes them edible.

Bioenergy Program Chiapas biodiesel production co and pinion derivatives, create jobs and allow the use of land currently idle and unproductive, the project's feasibility is demonstrated by not affect grain production for human consumption and damage to forests or jungles.

Salicornia (scorpiurus of the marshes)

Salicornia ramosissima

Oil-rich plant that grows in desert areas and irrigated with sea water, largely complies with the principles of second-generation biofuels.

is halophyte (salt tolerant) to develop conditions to survive in high saline conditions, making it possible to grow it in areas today considered unsuitable for any crop. Salicornia absorbs the water salinity and soil, improving soil quality.

Its fruit is small, succulent (thick walls to allow storage of water) and contains a single highly edible seeds, both cooked and raw ashes have been a source of soda (sodium carbonate) for the glass industry and soap. It has a high oil yield per hectare.

grown in Sonora to extract and biodiesel fuels for aircraft engines. It can occur in Baja California and Tamaulipas . In Ensenada, Baja California is a gourmet ingredient fashion.

Camelina Camelina sativa

annual oilseed crop grown in Europe since the Bronze Age, the seed contains between 33 and 42% oil that has been used in oil lamps and as food.

Argentina is experiencing in the production of biodiesel from Camelina and Salicornia , eventually be used microalgae and soybean oil.