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From Vision to Knowledge: Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower (1892)

December 27, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Scottish geographer, biologist, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes bought a tower next to the Edinburgh Castle in 1892. In over 20 years, he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Interior Landscapes, Media, Visual Atlas Tagged With: camera obscura, exhibition, knowledge, museum, spatialisation

Architecture as a Mnemonic Device: Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music

November 1, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

English physician and polymath Robert Fludd (1574-1637) had interests spanning from scientific knowledge to occult disciplines. His approach to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds, Visual Atlas Tagged With: art of memory, hermetism, music

The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)

September 6, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: pixelated, rooms, section, videogame

Patterns from the World Underneath: The Ecological Relations of Roots by John Ernest Weaver (1919)

June 21, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

The ecological relations of roots (1919) is a book by John Ernest Weaver (1884 – 1966),  an American biologist and prairie ecologist. During his life, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Fields, Territories Tagged With: botany, plants, roots, scientific drawings

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