By Juan Ramirez
On account that time immemorial, bees were linked to all demeanour of virtues. The beehive has served because the version for a fantastic society, whereas honey and wax have supplied the root for numerous optimistic metaphors of sweetness and productiveness. The common structure created through bees of their hives will be stated to process perfection. In The Beehive Metaphor , Juan Antonio Ramírez exhibits how this lucid modular constitution had a substantial effect at the architects and artists who based the fashionable circulation. types from either conventional and ''modern'' or ''rational'' apiculture have been studied and reinterpreted through such key figures as Gaudí, Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Beuys.Inspired by way of his personal father's obsession with bee-keeping – which burnt up the family's fortune – Ramírez examines the advanced ideological, political and inventive repercussions of apian metaphors, thereby bettering our knowing of the connection among ecology, animal husbandry and structure.
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From El colmenero español (November 1953). 57 It is unthinkable that the work of this man would have passed unnoticed in educated circles of the time, especially as his activities developed to a great extent under the patronage of the Barcelona School of Agriculture and Farming. Mercader-Belloch made beekeeping a privileged activity within the framework of the Catalan renaixença or renaissance. (It would be interesting to look closely at his family and cultural connections;58 at the moment, and with an eye to future fields of study, I will point out an article included by J.
It could easily be thought that such ideas lean towards collectivism but his conservative common sense led him to reject separatist ideas on a national level25 and Bolshevist communism on the social. 26 If we replace capital with honey (or seed from the fields) we can see that it is not all that far removed from the ancient fable of the cicada and the ant (or bee). What Gaudí proposed was a society based on the patriarchal family, cemented by hectic involvement in work without anybody seeking individual reward.
18), a bellows-operated smoker that guards the beekeeper from being stung while handling the bees (Moses Quinby, 1870, perfected a short time later by Bingham and Root) (illus. 19), and the centrifugal honey extractor which allows the frames to be emptied without destroying the honeycombs (Hrushka, 1865; improved by Langstroth in 1867 and by Root after 1868) (illus. 35 All this made large-scale industrial apiculture possible with honey harvests infinitely superior to those achieved with traditional hives and methods of production.