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Across the Space Frontier, (1952)

Across the Space Frontier, (1952)

July 22, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 4 Comments

A 50's publication on the space age, before 'real' space age was even started. Among the illustrations and cutaways of space stations, rockets and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, past futures, psychogeographies, social, Technology, virtual chronicles

Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia

Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia

July 19, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 2 Comments

"Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent—a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident—and that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology Tagged With: information graphics, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, world weird itself, world weird web

Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code

Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code

July 17, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 1 Comment

Stuxnet is the first computer virus (precisely a "worm") created to target, study, infect and subvert only industrial systems, namely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: politics, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird itself

Mikhail Okhitovich and the Disurbanism

Mikhail Okhitovich and the Disurbanism

July 14, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 8 Comments

Mikhail Okhitovich was a singular figure in Soviet architecture of the 20's and 30's. As a Bolshevik sociologist, town planner and Constructivist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Fields, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, past futures, politics, social, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Arabic Machines: Early Schematics

Arabic Machines: Early Schematics

July 13, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

Water powered systems, pulleys and gearing mechanisms, images from an arabic manuscript, datable from the 16th to 19th century. Sources: Max Planck … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, past futures, Technology, world weird web

Lectures on Ventilation (1869)

Lectures on Ventilation (1869)

July 12, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

XIX Century studies of air movement through various rooms: illustrations from Lectures on Ventilation, "Man's own breath is his greatest enemy", by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, past futures, Technology, world weird web

Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650

Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650

June 28, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 1 Comment

Just yesterday we quoted an Athanasius Kircher's excerpt from his Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650). This seminal works of musicology in two volumes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, past futures, Sounds, Technology, typography, visions, world weird web

Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)

Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)

June 27, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 2 Comments

Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: past futures, satire, Sounds, Technology, world weird itself, world weird web

Comparing Urbanization

Comparing Urbanization

June 24, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 2 Comments

Berkeley's  Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: information graphics, maps, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles

Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)

Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)

June 15, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is one the first (if not the very first) practical astronomy books published in Germany. "Astronomisches Handbuch" appeared in 1718, edited and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: form of form, illustrations, information graphics, maps, past futures, Technology, world weird web

The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)

The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)

June 14, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

An interesting lecture -in Italian- from an almost 35 years old issue of Ottagono, (an Italian architecture and design magazine still living today) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, magazines, past futures, politics, social, Technology, world weird web

The book of Fortresses, a XVI Century Codex of Defensive Structures

The book of Fortresses, a XVI Century Codex of Defensive Structures

June 11, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

The "Livro das fortalezas situadas no extremo de Portugal e Castela por Duarte de Armas, escudeiro da casa do rei D. Manuel I" is an analysis, dating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, past futures, politics, Technology, world weird web

Lyrical Theatre in Cagliari, Maurizio Sacripanti, 1965

Lyrical Theatre in Cagliari, Maurizio Sacripanti, 1965

June 10, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

Among Italian avantgarde architects of the 60's and 70's, Maurizio Sacripanti was one of those who gained a lesser fortune. Known almost uniquely for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, past futures, people, visions, world weird web

How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases

How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases

June 10, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 8 Comments

Depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, literature, maps, past futures, politics, Technology, visions, world weird web

Kugelhaus, by John William Ludowici

Kugelhaus, by John William Ludowici

June 4, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 1 Comment

John William Ludowici (1896 - 1983), inventor and engineer, invented the Ball House in the 1950's. The house was intended for emergency situation, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, past futures, Technology, visions, world weird web

Duck and Cover, Nuclear War Awareness campaign

Duck and Cover, Nuclear War Awareness campaign

May 29, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 2 Comments

In 1951, shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing, the US Federal government's Civil Defense started producing a series of films and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology Tagged With: comics, illustrations, information graphics, past futures, Technology, world weird itself

Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia

Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia

May 26, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 1 Comment

Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions

Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” +  Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)

Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)

May 24, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles

Artificial Landscape (La Pietra on Domus 665/1985)

Artificial Landscape (La Pietra on Domus 665/1985)

May 24, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

In this text by Ugo La Pietra the urban furniture is the starting point of a project, the elements from which to measure and to define the urban space … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, social, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Architecture of Aggression: Buildings, Ideology and Media during Wartime (Casabella 394/1974)

Architecture of Aggression: Buildings, Ideology and Media during Wartime (Casabella 394/1974)

May 17, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

The following is an illustrated review (on a 1974 number of Casabella), of a research on military architecture published by a group of students of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, industrial design, past futures, politics, Technology, world weird web

Technologic wizardries at Paris 1900’s Exposition Universelle

Technologic wizardries at Paris 1900’s Exposition Universelle

April 30, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

Electric machines and light installations, mechanic sidewalks, ramps and escalators, metropolitan lines and hot air ballons were among the urban scale … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird itself

The way things go… David Weiss (1946-2012)

The way things go… David Weiss (1946-2012)

April 28, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

Yesterday, one half of our favorite artists' duo has died of cancer. We'd like to celebrate him posting (again) the work for which Fischli/Weiss … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, Technology, visions, world weird web

Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario

Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario

April 24, 2012 by fosco lucarelli 1 Comment

Back to Socks from Rome and the lecture! We remember, from our time as students at the architecture school, a typical lecture in "Descriptive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, movies, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles

Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music

Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music

April 7, 2012 by fosco lucarelli Leave a Comment

From Things Magazine:  "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, illustrations, magazines, past futures, synthesizers, Technology, visions

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