Measure, enlarge, unify: Spanish landscapes

text published on Dlle, n.2, 2010 – Spain Landscape 2010 – Urban Hybrids – Evolution in Regeneration

testo italiano su Arch’it

– Mire vuestra merced – respondiò Sancho – que aquellos que allì se parecen no son gigantes, sino molinos de viento, y lo que en ellos parecen brazos son las aspas, que, volteadas del viento, hacen andar la piedra del molino.-

(- Look, your worship; – said Sancho – what we see there are not  giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that  when turned by the wind make the millstones go. -)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, 1605.

Windmills, Castilla La Mancha, Spain, photo by chiara quinzii