{"id":1706,"date":"2011-05-14T23:40:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T03:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2011-07-09T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:18:51","slug":"my-brilliant-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/05\/14\/my-brilliant-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"My brilliant brother: Chilean architecture at its finest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1707\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/05\/14\/my-brilliant-brother\/bga-header\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg?fit=486%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"486,194\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BGA-header\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Bresciani Gray Arquitectos site header&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg?fit=486%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg?resize=486%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg?w=486&amp;ssl=1 486w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg?resize=150%2C59&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-header.jpg?resize=300%2C119&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgarquitectos.cl\/2009\/12\/sebastian-gray-avins.html\">Sebasti\u00e1n Gray Avins<\/a>, architect and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/02\/opinion\/02sgray.html\">essayist<\/a>, have a lovely new website up for their architecture firm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgarquitectos.cl\/\">Bresciani Gray Arquitectos<\/a>.\u00a0  Now you can see their recent projects, from municipal buildings to the Chilean display at the Venice Biennales.\u00a0 They include both images and floorplans in most cases.\u00a0 I should find out if they have high-resolution images up to complement the overviews.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgarquitectos.cl\/2010\/01\/libreria-ulises.html\">Librer\u00eda Ulises<\/a> &#8212; a bookstore with the glory and scope of a library.\u00a0 What I wouldn&#8217;t give to have such a store in my city!\u00a0 You can also see it in the upper-left of the gallery below.\u00a0  And I learned a few things from their design of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgarquitectos.cl\/2010\/01\/edificio-psicologia-puc-2008.html\">new Psychology building<\/a> at the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pontifical_Catholic_University_of_Chile\">Pontifical University of Chile<\/a>.  Props to the architects &#8211;\u00a0browse some of their work if you need a break from the everyday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1710\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/05\/14\/my-brilliant-brother\/bga-gallery\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg?fit=413%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"413,412\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BGA-gallery\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;BGA project gallery&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg?fit=413%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1710\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg?resize=413%2C412\" alt=\"BGA project gallery\" width=\"413\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg?w=413&amp;ssl=1 413w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2011\/05\/BGA-gallery.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\">\u00ed<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Sebasti\u00e1n Gray Avins, architect and essayist, have a lovely new website up for their architecture firm, Bresciani Gray Arquitectos.\u00a0 Now you can see their recent projects, from municipal buildings to the Chilean display at the Venice Biennales.\u00a0 They include both images and floorplans in most cases.\u00a0 I should find out if they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205,211],"tags":[1061,34501,34504,19988,34505,5577,34502,34499],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory","category-international","tag-architecture","tag-bga","tag-buildings","tag-chile","tag-luis-bresciani","tag-municipal","tag-santiago","tag-sebastian-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-rw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}