In a line of research of artists investigating the visual relationship between nature and mathematical and scientific information, Marc Dorf is … [Read more...]
Tomnod: Scan Satellite Images from your Home
Tomnod, (after the Mongolian word for “Big eye"), is an interesting site in that it provides high resolution satellite maps and allows users from all … [Read more...]
Ascii-Art Mapping: SyMAP (or Early Computer Generated Cartography)
William Caraher, assistant professor at the University of North Dakota and writer of the site "The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World" … [Read more...]
Space Replay, an Eerie Space Manipulating Device
Space replay is a project designed by Francesco Tacchini, Julinka Ebhardt and Will Yates-Johnson of the London's Royal College of Art. As the title … [Read more...]
The Ordinary World Beneath our Feet: ‘Underground’ by David Macaulay
David Macaulay is an American illustrator and writer who devoted many of his books to the careful description of works of architecture and … [Read more...]
The Paradox of Nature Preservation: Works by Ilkka Halso
Ilkka Halso is a Finnish artist who investigates the relationships between architecture, technology and nature, through photo-realistic renderings and … [Read more...]
Artificial Microclimates: Inca Experimental Agriculture Station at Moray, Peru
After reading our post about artificial microclimates landscaping in Montreuil and Pantelleria, our friend and artist Bernard Perroud suggested us to … [Read more...]
Techno-Human Utopia: 4 Projects in Berlin by Ludwig Leo
Recognition for Ludwig Leo only came in recent years. The architect of few completed buildings, assistant of O.M.Ungers in his office and at … [Read more...]
Structures to Let Man Fly: Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites
Photography from Bell Collection Between 1895 and 1910 famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell worked on the construction of kites, designing, … [Read more...]
The Possibility of an Immaterial Architecture: the Collaboration between Yves Klein and Claude Parent
Claude Parent, Mémorial à Yves Klein, 1964 “I will raze everything at the surface of Earth, until it is flat. I will fill the valleys with … [Read more...]
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered, an ETH Zürich Studio by Adam Caruso
The 2012 Studio at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), held by Prof. Adam Caruso focused on the important relation betweeen … [Read more...]
Marco Cadioli’s Abstract Journeys and Necessary Lines (2011 – 2013)
"I'm interested in the signs that man does without knowing" Mario Giacomelli Marco Cadioli is an Italian net artist and teacher … [Read more...]
Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)
László Moholy - Nagy - collage, ink and watercolour on paper "The Light Prop for an Electric Stage", also known as "the Light Space … [Read more...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
A Building is an Island is a Building: The Île Seguin Renault Factory in Paris
In 1919 Louis Renault, a talented engineer and head of the « Société des Automobiles Renault» began to aquire the "Île Seguin", an island in … [Read more...]
Sound Mirrors and Other Sensory Expansion Devices: From Wartime Technology to Radical Art Practices
A sound mirror (or acoustic mirror) is a device employed to reflect and concentrate sound waves. An experimentation on large scale acoustic … [Read more...]
Landscape as Cartography: When Giant Concrete Arrows were Scattered Across the American Territory
Flying in the 20s had to be a thrilling experience, indeed. In the absence of radio communication or radar technology, pilots engaged in … [Read more...]
Flying Boats /2 – Latécoère 521 “Lieutenant de Vasseau Paris”
The interwar period must have been very exciting for an aviation enthusiast. The aircraft industry developed so rapidly that only twenty … [Read more...]
Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)
In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]
Violating Matter: Works by Arcangelo Sassolino
“Creating, I ask myself: why not try and strain the materials to the limit of their resistance? Why not force to the limit the … [Read more...]
A Line in the Landscape: Craig Ellwood’s 1977 Inhabited Bridge
Craig Ellwood was a construction company created by Jon Nelson Burke and three partners in the 1940's in Los Angeles. The name was … [Read more...]
The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project
Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of the first … [Read more...]
Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)
This moon atlas was published by L'Observatoire de Paris in 1899 and edited by Maurice (Moritz) Loewy. The following are the Cover, the Title Page … [Read more...]
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