Category Archives: Architecture & Design
Rebar Roman
This wonderful crucifix stands in the Parque Benito Juárez, San MIguel de Allende, Mexico. What is best about it are the inscriptions – a typeface created with welded letters made out of steel rods and floated off the surface a … Continue reading
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Siqueiros Mural in the Bellas Artes on View Again
After a couple of years in hiding due to renovations that were necessary because of a roof collapse elsewhere in the building, the 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros is now on view again in the Escuela de Bellas … Continue reading
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Spaced-Out
It is difficult to imagine a publisher tolerating bad grammar or the mis-use of vocabulary in the content of a book, so why would they accept the equivalent thing graphically on the jacket? The concept here is fine. The use … Continue reading
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Corny Constable Sunset
After a somewhat unusual (as usual) summer so far, the weather in the Bajío here in Mexico has returned to the typical brilliant blue skies with hot afternoons and cool evening breezes, and the usual dramatic sunset skies that Constable … Continue reading
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Cute, Cute, Cute
Now I hate cute, but sometimes it is irresistible. This house on Hernandez Macias in San Miguel, between Pila Seca and Umaran, has weathered like a Hollywood set designer’s dream. I would groan if I saw it in a movie, … Continue reading
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The Schoolchildren of San Miguel
This morning in the Jardin, we came across a wonderful exhibit of local school projects including this Cadena Alimenticia (Food Chain) diagram. The imagery is wonderful. While looking at this, other schoolchildren were performing (the Can-Can of all things) on … Continue reading
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The Open Air Crypt of the Templo de Santa Ana
The Templo de Santa Ana, built in 1847, is unique in that of all San MIguel’s many magnificent churches, they managed to complete a wonderful and rich interior, but never got round to the outside. It sits next to the … Continue reading
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HIgh Wit Billboards
Each year General Motors puts up a series of billboards along Woodward Avenue in Detroit for the Woodward Dream Cruise, a parade of vintage and custom vehicles that has been an annual event since 1995. These are but three of … Continue reading
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Low Tech Roadworks
Compared to the din of mechanical equipment tearing into the asphalt in New York, the clink-clink of a road gang in San Miguel is a delight. This is the standard method for repairing any of the streets here, and is … Continue reading
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Adaptive Re-Use: Sparkplugs
More adaptive re-use. This time for a gate sign for Hermilo Tovar’s tiny junkyard on the Salida a Celaya. This is just a detail of a whole universe of imaginations he has welded and painted around the entry to his … Continue reading
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