Natural

“Natural XXI” by M.A.D.

 

 

 

North Bangkok

“Wires and concrte slabs” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

 

I was taking this image while a group of soi dogs were trying to bite me.  Minutes before, I asked the driver to drop me next to what it seemed and abandoned row of concrete slabs somewhere in the fringes of Bangkok.  I have never approached architecture in such a violent manner.  This image corresponds  to one of the many images that I took of the vertical towers interacting with the horizontal electric wires.

Somewhere between Busan and Seoul

“Somewhere in Korea 1″ by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

20 days/ 10 cities.   I have just arrived in Cairo and doubt I have  been in Madrid, Santander, Potes, Paris, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Shimono Seki, Busan and Seoul.  I would repeat it again and again and again.  In the coming days I will be posting stories on these cities.

maizales of the mind

"maizales of the mind" by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

into the new town

“Into the New Town” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

I am still debating with myself If I actually have been in Chongqing, China.  Soon will be one year and this place has increased my level of happyness at least by a 0.9 %, almost as much as my number one song “Enjoy the Silence” by British pop band Depeche Mode.

I took this photo from one of the many new suburbs of Chongqing.  I wished I was the guy on the motorbike  and mingle myself with the city and head towards a new future.  Yes, forget for sometime who I am, where I am from.  Give myself a vacation from myself. Disappear in the new town with the motorbike and embrace a new future in one of those towers in Chongqing.

The last countryside

“Growing towers” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

Parabolic Facade in Log 18

Parabolic Facade after winning the first Log Postcard Competition is now cover of Log 18

PRESS RELEASE

March 10, 2010

Log 18 (Winter 2010) – Includes: Simone Brott on Deleuze’s reception in New York by way of Columbia University in the 1970s and an anarcho-aesthetic bloc within the New York counterculture; Pier Vittorio Aureli on Manfredo Tafuri’s “Intellectual Work”; Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s polemic on “Cheapness” and its pretensions; Marc Angélil and Cary Siress’s survey of garbage and its vicissitudes (including “orgiastic recycling”); plus observations on La Tourette at fifty, Herzog & de Meuron’s parking garage in Miami, and the Burnham Centennial pavilions by Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel in Millennium Park, Chicago.

The Log 18 cover/postcard, entitled “Parabolic Facade,” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro, shows a building in the Diar Es Saada (“Land of Happiness”) neighborhood of Algiers clothed with satellite dishes and laundry.

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city of debris

“umbrella surrounded by debris” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

City of Debris is a post war document on South Beirut during the summer of 2006 and right before its reconstruction.  Now you can see it on www.transitorycities.com (projects)

through

“window framing tree, towers and hidden river” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

I was at 600 AM in the North West of Guangzhou.  I was looking for holes on walls where I could see through and discover new vistas of the periphery. On a little street full of marble workshops I found a rusty gate with several openings.  I bended my knees and saw a row of towers in the back perfectly aligned. The written red Chinese characters next to the wholes reminded me I was in China.  Later I would discover that between the towers, the esplanade and tree lied the Pearl River or perhaps one of its many branches.

I left the gate and reached an iron bridge similar to those built by the Eiffel school.  A train passed through and the structure vibrated.  I closed my eyes and wondered I could be in the Colindres iron bridge traversing the Ason River or in the Imbaba bridge traversing the Nile River in Cairo. 

I did not take a photo of the iron structure but I let you imagine that not far from the view that you can see there is a bridge on the left margin and a river between the towers and the tree.

Guangzhou will be coming soon to  www.transitorycities.com

“At this moment” collective exhibition at Del Sol St.

 

“High Densities,  Hong-Kong”  by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

Del Sol St. Art Gallery

Colectiva de Fotografia y Video

from 19th june to 11th july 2009

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