Underground Interiors: Decorating For Alternative Life Styles (Adventures In Decorating And Design)

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Skurka, Norma. ; Gili, Oberto. [Richard Burroughs Carla de Benedetti John T Hill Norman McGrath Tim Street-Porter Bernard Wolff Antony Miralda Dorothee Miralda Catherine Desmarets Zandra Rhodes Samuel Bury Christine Bury Marina Lante della Rovere Gilardi: Who woulda thunk that you'd get a lesson on Native American origin mythology and the latest theory of evolution from an astrophysicist who keeps up with microbiology while being taken on a virtual tour of an abandoned gold mine?

When the author wrote of a man from 1818 named John Cleves Symmes who declared his intent to lead a voyage to the interior of the earth to prove that it was hollow and habitable, I couldn’t help but think of Alice in Wonderland. While in the end, Symmes was considered a loon who wasted his life chasing fairy tales of underground lands, before that he sparked the imagination of many. It seems likely it sparked the imagination of the man that sparked the world’s imagination, the author of Alice in Wonderland. There is little doubt that tales from the likes of Jules Verne, HG Welles, and Frank Baum were sparked from Symmes too. |Local studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has completed a wooden A-frame house with underground bedrooms in a forested area outside Mexico City. More Keren Dillard Bei den besuchten Orten gibt es durchaus Überschneidungen zu MacFarlanes Buch. Der Abstieg in die Pariser Katakomben gehört wohl in jedes Buch dieser Art und auch hier lasse ich mich gerne mitnehmen, auf den Spuren von Die Elenden und dem Fotografen Nadar. Die unterirdischen Städte in Kappadokien, bei MacFarlane nur flüchtig erwähnt, erfahren hier erfreulicherweise mehr Beachtung. Una de ellas fue en 2011, cuando en medio de un viaje por el Mayab que incluyó recorrer dos de mis estados favoritos del país y dos estados nación vecinos; mi hermana y yo tuvimos la buena idea de contratar un tour a la cueva ATM en Belice. Hunt hace exactamente lo mismo en el libro y no pude sino contrastar con alegría mi experiencia a la suya. El capítulo donde se relata la expedición de Hunt a la cueva ATM es el último del libro, donde el tema principal es la relación religiosa del hombre con las cuevas. El autor cuenta la reverencia y la gravedad y lo sagrado de la experiencia de bajar al Xibalbá. Ese día, 19 de Julio de 2011, fue una jornada no voy a decir que mística, pero sí de exagerada y frenética dicha. Nadar al interior de la cueva, seguir el camino del agua entre riachuelos y oquedades y luego salir a contemplar las cámaras con sus estalactitas y ofrendas, trepar por entre rocas y finalmente subir la escalera de metal para ir a conocer a la pobre muchacha que le tocó la de perder me hizo sentir increíblemente feliz, con un arrebato que en aquel año que estaba siendo difícil para mí reafirmó mi pasión por los espacios subterráneos. When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers, and ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. Underground is both a personal exploration of Hunt’s obsession and a panoramic study of how we are all connected to the underground, how caves and other dark hollows have frightened and enchanted us through the ages.

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UNDERGROUND is written with a mesmerizing prose designed to incite wonder, but descriptions seem always only half cast, as though the author is not fully willing to share every secret. The book then jumps down the rabbit hole into the lives of burrowers. Those that start digging for a logical purpose and end up spending decades digging because something about being down there grabs them. And then the author wrote of underground castles and cities. It was just fascinating.

Then Will went to Australia to see a cave there, one that the Aboriginal people were still able to protect. It was an ochre mine. The Aboriginals believe that they came up from these caves in the beginning of time. Even some of the Native Americans have this belief. There are actually creatures living in that darkness, creatures with no eyes. I ask, “How can a human, who had evolved in the caves, more than likely with no eyes, come out into the light and survive?” I have this vision of their sitting at the mouth of the cave in the sunlight feeling its warmth and the fresh air, fearing to venture no further, but after thousands upon thousands of years, developing eye sight. I especially like their belief that they went upon the earth along songlines (paths) singing songs, bringing the nature into existence. I think of the Creator as singing songs that brought the universe into existence. Where I expected more of a look into unknown subterranean discoveries through the eyes of a thrill-seeking explorer, I was educated rather than merely thrilled. True, it is thrilling to think of new discoveries beneath the feet we think are standing on terra firma. I was impressed by the information Hunt covers and the many diverse locations he shares. More importantly, I was humbled by the reminder of the stewardship we have over our earth, and that we seem to be drifting away from the sense of respect and appreciation for our planet that generations before us have had, especially indigenous peoples. Underground interiors : decorating for alternate life styles. [Surrealist interiors -- Environments -- Radical Chic -- Pop Culture -- Space Age Habitations] - First edition Beneath my feet lies a 300 million-year-old petrified rainforest– the second largest in the world. Pictures of it can be seen here. It’s incredible to imagine that this snowy countryside was once a tropical rainforest and that its remains are now buried deep below where I stand today. Scientific proof of what once was. Do you ever wonder about what used to be? Do you wonder about what can’t be seen.The author then goes to look at ancient cave paintings. The entire chapter on underground art was seriously fascinating. |Local architecture studio Benjamín Murúa Arquitectos has topped an underground sports centre with a dome in the Atacama desert in Chile. More Ellen Eberhardt Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. More Jon Astbury This was a deeply profound book. It was also a love letter from the author to tunnels and caves and all else that lurks under our feet. The author is obsessed to put it mildly, but thank goodness because it’s only through obsessed people that we learn things.

I saw that we- all of us, the human species- have always felt a quiet pull from the underground, that we are connected to this realm as we are to our own shadow." My favorite chapters were those on the caves, a topic that did not draw me to this book; it was the underground cities that had caught my interest. When Will writes, you see it all, you feel it all. First there were the cave paintings, which I had always found to be beautiful when seeing them in books or on the walls of a class room at college. Then there were the two bison sculptures made of clay from the cave. Whenever people came into the cave, Tuc d'Audoubert, they felt a sense of worship. A sacredness. It was in these caves that the cave dwellers had their religious ceremonies. They danced themselves into trances, seen by the footprints that had remained in the cave all these years. But what is more, being in a dark cave, in total darkness can cause the mind to expand. You get visions. Y pues, al igual que pasó con el libro de Waterlog (Diarios del Agua), ésta es una reseña de un libro de no ficción que sirve mejor para explicar su rating que haciendo que se trate de mí. Lo siento. The author tells us of his first descent into the underworld when a kid in Rhode Island. It was a moment akin to when eighth grade Bill Gates walked into his classroom to find a computer. Both the author and Gates were hooked by “it.” A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.His journey underground Paris was fascinating. Above ground are all these historic landmarks and below, just as fascinating, are elegant archways and ornate spiral staircases. Rooms underground have things like a sculpture akin to Michelangelo’s David, gargoyles, disco balls. In 2004, a movie theater was found adjacent to a bar, lounge, workshop and a small dining room. Was Hunt vermutlich am stärksten von MacFarlane unterscheidet ist, dass Im Untergrund viel weniger dem Genre Nature Writing zugeordnet werden kann. Das heißt aber auch, dass hier die kritische Haltung zu unserem Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen keine Rolle spielt (für mich einer der überzeugendsten Aspekte bei MacFarlane). Ein Oberbegriff bei Hunt könnte eher „Lost Places“ sein. News about our Dezeen Awards programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates. Dezeen Events Guide

In the next chapter he wrote of the Jacques Cousteau of the underworld. Someone that lives in caves or underground for a time to test his reactions. The author then tried his own 24 hour experiment in darkness in a cave. Alongside this he wrote of our first studies of sensory depravation. Fascinating read all the way around.This startling and thought-provoking work unearths a connection to the depths at once spiritual and biological, a revelation that astounds even the most casual of readers. A must-read for the spare traveller, the amateur archaeologist, the pioneer, the naturalist, the spiritualist, the dreaming anthropologist—but most importantly, the lingering explorer who lies buried in the hidden cavities of every human soul.