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Linear Analogies: a Selection of Paul Klee’s Black and White Lithographies

March 14, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In the multiple explorations of form and composition by German-Swiss artist Paul Klee, a special place is occupied by works where the line is the main … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: Black and White, lines, lithography

Understanding Reality through Wooden Blocks: Froebel Play Gifts

March 8, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) was a German educator, considered as the inventor of the Kindergarten in 1837, at first named “Play and Activity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Representation: Axonometric projection, Representation: Models, Visual Atlas Tagged With: pedagogy, toys, wood

Margarete Fröhlich. Axonometric Explorations of Rooms

February 21, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Margarete Fröhlich (1901-2001) was an Austrian artist and interior designer who specialised in the modelling of housing units. Initially, she studied … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: axonometrics, Collage, drawings

“The process I use has nothing at all of that of an ‘artist’ nor does it have anything in common with an ‘artistic gesture’”. Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number

February 7, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Dutch Benedictine architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) developed his body of work on the base of a system of proportions he had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Body Measuring Space, Representation: Models Tagged With: geometry, proportions, theory

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

“Its unfinished decoration in danger of slipping beneath the eye to hurtle wildly across the crumbling walls.” The Cage, a Visual-Novel, by Martin Vaughn-James (1975)

July 12, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: comic, graphic novel

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

The Architecture of the Workspace: Axonometric Drawings by Peter Judson

April 10, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Peter Judson is a British designer and illustrator. (Already featured, on Socks).  For his project "Hyundai card", commissioned by design studio … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: axonometrics, Black and White, illustration, office

Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)

February 23, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: axonometric projection, Landscape, photography, Urban

Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)

January 26, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Media, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: ai, algorithm, maps, new media

Mary Ellen Solt, Moonshot Sonnet (1964)

December 15, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Moonshot Sonnet is a concrete poem composed in 1964 by poet Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007). The work is a poem created reformatting diagrammatic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Representation: Graphic Scores, Technology, Territories Tagged With: concrete poetry, moon, Nasa, poem, sonnet, territories

Gareth Damian Martin, Postcards from The Continuous City, 2018

October 13, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Continuous City is an in-progress photographic series by Gareth Damian Martin. The British artist, game designer and writer explores video game … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Interior Landscapes, Media, Technology, Territories, Topics Tagged With: photography, videogame

Abstract Layers of Territory: Maps by David Lemm

February 3, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

David Lemm is a visual artist and designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His production ranges widely from illustrations to collages, multi-media … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction Tagged With: Cartography, illustration, maps

The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Representation: Axonometric projection, Representation: Models, Technology Tagged With: constructivism, Lenin, leonidov, Soviet Architecture, Technology

Irena Gajic’s 100 Houses

August 28, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: houses, illustrations, unconscious

Spaces Left Behind: Paintings by Zsofia Schweger

July 1, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Zsofia Schweger is a Hungarian artist who currently lives and works in London. Her still life paintings of empty interior spaces talk subtly about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Housing the Isolated Individual, Visual Atlas Tagged With: colors, domestic, Interiors, map, still life

A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).

June 24, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing", a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: analogy, grid, Urban

Imaginary Places for Mundane Activities: Works by Max Guther

June 19, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Max Guther is a German illustrator who constructs imaginary worlds through axonometric projections. His images usually depict details from urban views … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: axonometrics, realism, videogame

The Search for the “Open Form”: The Extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery by Oskar and Zofia Hansen (1958)

June 15, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The project for the extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery was an unbuilt project developed by Polish architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen, with Lech … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Dysfunctional Plans, Representation: Models Tagged With: gallery, open form

Irena Gajic, Nine Rooms To Die In. (2016)

June 13, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Belgrade-based Irena Gajic clearly reveals her architectural background in her illustrations. Most of her works, commissioned by magazines and by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: care, hospitalization, illustration

The Eastern Workers Village at Amarna (c. 1349-1332 BCE)

May 22, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Eastern Workers village at Amarna in Egypt (c. 1349-1332 BCE) was a walled settlement located in the North-East side of the city and intended for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cluster Urbanism, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: archaic, enclosure, housings, square, walls

Visual Groups and Cluster Planning, The Pendrecht District in Rotterdam by the Opbouw (1949-1956)

March 21, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The urban plan for the district of Pendrecht, in the south of Rotterdam, is one of the most representative projects of the urban theories developed in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cluster Urbanism, Territories Tagged With: planning, structuralism, Urbanism

House “for a society that had nothing”, the Soho House by Alison and Peter Smithson, 1953

January 3, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson designed a house for themselves for an infill site in Colville place in Soho neighborhood, in London, on an area … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: anxious modernism, as found, brutalism, Concrete

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