{"id":2191,"date":"2018-09-27T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matrizlda.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2018-09-29T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:53:21","slug":"villa-alem-a-castle-in-the-sky-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/2018\/09\/27\/villa-alem-a-castle-in-the-sky-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Alem: A Castle in the Sky &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1402\" src=\"http:\/\/matrizlda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/capa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1701\" height=\"1135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Portugal\u2019s Alentejo region, Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has designed a massive, avant-garde concrete structure\u2014a personal retreat that gestures to the heavens<\/p>\n<p>THE VILLA AL\u00c9M, an austere concrete house in Portugal\u2019s Alentejo region that Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati designed and built for himself and his wife, Tamara, is the sort of structural provocation that leaves laypeople struggling to find an appropriate comparison. Olgiati\u2019s own lawyer likens it to a drug baron\u2019s fortress. When the house was under construction, a worker from a nearby village asked if it was a train station. \u201cThen he looked inside,\u201d Olgiati tells me, \u201cand said, \u2018Ah, the train has not arrived!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/villa-alem-a-castle-in-the-sky-1472752800\">(More info)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Portugal\u2019s Alentejo region, Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has designed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matrizlda.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}