Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]
Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World
"...For the world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it. That is, the … [Read more...]
Grönlund-Nisunen’s Kinetic Art
Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen are two artists living and working in Finland. Their kinetic installations have the appearance of aseptic … [Read more...]
Isometric cross-sections and other drawings by Evan Wakelin
Evan Wakelin is an illustrator and photographer. He curates Tesseract and another inspiration tumblr. "I like decayed, vernacular architecture, old … [Read more...]
How the House looked like in 2001
Sorry for the misleading title, this is really Walter Cronkite in 1967 explaining how the house of the future would have looked like. (From the CBS … [Read more...]
Microcities’ “The Field” at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
Hello and sorry for the long hiatus, due to overwork at Microcities, lately. This quick post is to thank friends at Think Space and Adrian Lahoud, … [Read more...]
Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)
Tango is certainly a prodigy of pre-digital animation. The experimental short video shows thirty-six characters interacting in one room, moving in … [Read more...]
The War Rooms, by Ned Scott – 2012
Ned Scott's War Room is a science fiction tale of a hypothetical future where England has run out of energy sources after the Energy War of 2050. The … [Read more...]
“Thirty Five Images Of Space Helmet Reflections” and More Recent Works By Eric Ulrich
Eric Ulrich is an artist and designer living in New Orleans. Via: Things Magazine and notes.husk.org … [Read more...]
Emotional Fields, by Sergio Albiac
Conventionally painted by generative artist Sergio Albiac. Via: ThingsMagazine … [Read more...]
Penal Colony by Yoko Ono & Arata Isozaki (2004)
SEASON OF GLASS spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance autumn passes and one … [Read more...]
Chris Marker’s Junkopia
Passed away the last month, Chris Marker will be mostly remembered for his 1962 film La Jetée, a post-apocalyptic tale of time travels constructed … [Read more...]
Enzo Mari “Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat” (1967)
A work of the great Italian designer Enzo Mari: Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat (1967) (64 lamps, 64 switches, plexiglas and steel support, 87,5 x … [Read more...]
Fritz Kahn: Human Body as an Industrialized World
Codex 99 features a rich article on Fritz Kahn, German gynaecologist and popular science writer from the 1910's to the 1960's. Apart from writing … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself
Two days ago Socks featured the work of Mas Yendo. Thanks to Stefano Massa (@doctorcrowd on Twitter) we can update the post with a video interview of … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times
“What I speculate in my work is that new technologies will play an important part in how architects embrace new ideas. The advancement of seemingly … [Read more...]
Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan
The architect and city planner Oscar Newman, better known for his dreadful "Defensible space theory", (pdf here) also fostered in 1969 the bizarre … [Read more...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
All Juan Montero Valdes wants to do is making some money
And quite literally, too. "All I Want To Do Is Make Some Money" is Juan Montero Valdes's project of making dollar bills using domestic appliances … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]
There’s nothing you can do about it: Short history of the Architect and the Robot, by Gérard Courtieux (1969)
From one of the most impressive issues ever of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Nouvel Environnement de l'Homme, 145/1969), a revealing article about the … [Read more...]
Hiroshi Hara, 500x500x500m, A New Type of Residential Cube for 100,000 People (1992)
Hiroshi Hara's "Multilayered Theory of the City" is put into practice through this model for an utopian metropolis. A three-dimensional lattice is … [Read more...]
Across the Space Frontier, (1952)
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...]
Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia
"Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent—a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident—and that … [Read more...]
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