Rain's Thursday Art Date: Architecture

I'm back just minutes before it is time to link to this post.  I have several posts ready in the queue for just such an event, but never expected to lose power due to a silly cable.  The first one wasn't the correct one, so I had to wait till my friend Scott was able to get one that was correct.  How nice to have next day air.  Again, I'll be by to visit as I'm able to.  I appreciate those of you who visited even when I was unable to.  Thank you beyond belief.

Today is Thursday, which means we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week the theme is Architecture.

Granted, I have shown this before at a previous Rain's TAD, but I'm so proud of it, I had to share it again.

Here is some Tuscan architecture.

Contrast that with Cuban architecture.

Or that found in Nuuk, which is Greenland's capital.

Perhaps you would prefer some architecture from Santorini, Greece.

Perhaps you prefer the ancient architecture found in Athens.

On this side of the big pond is this cathedral in Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, in the Americas, the southern hemisphere, and the western hemisphere.  The Sao Paulo Cathedral underwent a complete renovation between 2000 and 2002.  Apart from repairing the building, many pinnacles over the nave and towers were completed. The original construction plans were found inside the building, allowing for a faithful restoration. I backed the image found in a travel magazine with three pages of scrapbook paper and a yellow doily.

Next it was time to check out the architecture in Olinda, also in Brazil.
Perhaps you would prefer to visit Paraty, an old city in Brazil where no cars are allowed due to the narrow cobblestone streets.

While on our imaginary visit to Brazil, we stopped in Sao Luis, which has the largest and best colonial Portuguese architecture in Latin America.  As an aside, I created the template by hand that I used to cut the shape on which I matted the picture.  I spritzed the cut mat with my handmade shimmering mists before I centered the focal image on it.

Before we leave Brazil, we have to check out the architecture of the capitol of Brazil, which is not Rio, but Brazilia, the planned city that is laid out like a bird.  Shown in the photo is the Cathedral of Brazilia.

This is a tongue in cheek page.  I created House Dress in my Houses altered book.

Switching gears,

this Pagoda Gazebo is part of the latest garden at Wichita's Botanical Garden.

This is a lovely old church I spotted one day as I was driving through my city.

This sits near the Botanical Gardens.  I have no idea what it is, but it's definitely architecture.

Here's another church in my city.

And another.

I was surprised when I took this off my old camera.  It looked like a digital print with an overlay to me, but it's just how I removed it from the camera.

I always took two shots of everything with my old worthless camera, so here is the second shot.

I found a few homes in another part of the city that had homes similar to my 1920 bungalow.

I liked how the tree shadows played on the wall and how the wall on the right looked like someone had taken a bite out of it.

I'm not sure if this is a church or a private residence.

This building sits on the Wichita State University (WSU) campus.

It is where WSU's "home" college baseball games are played.

Found at a local museum, after attending a lecture given by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wichita in 1935, Louise Hoult was inspired and wrote the architect to inquire if he would create a "small and reasonable house" for her and her husband.   He designed Usonia, but it proved to be too expensive for middle class people in Wichita, so was never built.

Even though Frank Lloyd Wright didn't build Usonia in Wichita, he did leave his mark on the city.  He designed and built the Henry J. Allen home.  Allen owned the Wichita Beacon (a daily newspaper), was also a governor, and a U.S. senator, too.  Today the showcase house, with its original furniture also created by Wright, is a museum.

I have tons more I could share, but I think I'll stop here.  All art created by me.  All photos taken by me.  Bleubeard was actually excited because he wants to know when we are moving into that "dream home" I showed in the first photo.

Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.