NOVEDADES

Weinfeld is renowned for work that exudes the power of classical modernism while being completely of its own moment. Biophilic design, an approach to architecture that emphasizes and embraces the natural world and its restorative qualities, is at its heart, allowing for a gorgeous aesthetics while also celebrating nature. Here, design offers sublime symbiosis where natural world and that which is human-made serve as complements. Above all, the buildings are easy to be in, inviting, and elegant—and all without ostentatiousness.

Más allá de un régimen político, la democracia consiste en la vitalidad de la sociedad civil, que exige superar el individualismo. Alvira reivindica la libertad del ciudadano, entendida como responsabilidad y capacidad de acción respecto a lo común. La democracia es vitalidad y pujanza de la sociedad civil, y exige personas nobles, no individualistas, que antepongan el servicio al propio interés. La verdadera democracia no excluye toda aristocracia. Más bien al contrario: la necesita. El empresario, entre otros, forma parte de ese núcleo humano, y su empresa es, como tal, una institución social. Conforma lo social. Para que la democracia engendre libertad y no solo independencia privada, necesita reinventar su aristocracia: personas que resistan al poder supremo compartiendo con él la responsabilidad por el bien común.

The impressionists were forever inspired by the sea, which Claude Monet considered “a wonderful teacher for landscape artists.” The movement’s penchant for plein air painting and its characteristic style, with delicate brushstrokes and incomparable color palettes, was perfectly suited to portrayals of the sea and its perpetual movement, from gently rippling waves to raging storms.