The intervention A Mental Image - Blavatsky Observatory by the Mexican artist and architect Santiago Borja offers a unique space for contemplation on the roof of Sonneveld House. Urban noise fades into the background up here above the city, where visitors to the observatory can engage with the elements in the resulting silence.
On the roof of Sonneveld House, the observatory is being built that Santiago Borja devoted to Helena Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society. A space for contemplation above the rumour of the city. His project A Mental Image – Blavatsky Observatory opens for the public on February 13
Marco Pasi specialises in the history of hermetic philosophy and related currents. On 11 February, he will deliver a lecture in Sonneveld House on the connection between theosophy and modernism in relation to the intervention by Mexican architect and artist Santiago Borja in Sonneveld House. This will be followed by a talk by Borja about his work entitled A Mental Image - Blavatsky Observatory.Santiago Borja builds an observatory on the roof of Sonneveld House, which is on view from 13 February
Het Nieuwe Instituut regularly invites a designer, architect or artist to respond to Sonneveld House, one of the best-preserved private houses built in the Dutch Functionalist style. From 13 February to 22 May this is Mexican artist and architect Santiago Borja. He built an observatory on the roof of the house, which dates from 1933, offering visitors a space for contemplation.With his work A Mental Image – Blavatsky Observatory, Borja points to the influence of Western esotericism on the