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...]
Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code
Stuxnet is the first computer virus (precisely a "worm") created to target, study, infect and subvert only industrial systems, namely … [Read more...]
Mikhail Okhitovich and the Disurbanism
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...]
Arabic Machines: Early Schematics
Water powered systems, pulleys and gearing mechanisms, images from an arabic manuscript, datable from the 16th to 19th century. Sources: Max Planck … [Read more...]
Lectures on Ventilation (1869)
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...]
Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650
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...]
Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)
Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]
Comparing Urbanization
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...]
Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)
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...]
The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)
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...]
The book of Fortresses, a XVI Century Codex of Defensive Structures
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...]
Lyrical Theatre in Cagliari, Maurizio Sacripanti, 1965
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...]
How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases
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...]
Kugelhaus, by John William Ludowici
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...]
Duck and Cover, Nuclear War Awareness campaign
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...]
Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia
Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]
Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)
Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]
Artificial Landscape (La Pietra on Domus 665/1985)
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...]
Architecture of Aggression: Buildings, Ideology and Media during Wartime (Casabella 394/1974)
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...]
Technologic wizardries at Paris 1900’s Exposition Universelle
Electric machines and light installations, mechanic sidewalks, ramps and escalators, metropolitan lines and hot air ballons were among the urban scale … [Read more...]
The way things go… David Weiss (1946-2012)
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...]
Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario
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...]
Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music
From Things Magazine: "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]
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