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Fields

Architectural projects and artistic researches have explored the potential of isotropic spaces, by definition: territories where the conditions are equally distributed. Hierarchy is abandoned, the distinction between figure and ground disappears and the available land is evenly covered, being it a piece of paper or a territorial plot. In some projects the idea of field is a metaphor, the ever-expanding territory of capital materialized by infinite urban development, in other it is merely a condition, a potential to be explored.
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Patterns from the World Underneath: The Ecological Relations of Roots by John Ernest Weaver (1919)

June 21, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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

A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii

June 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The city of Timgad, in today's Algeria, was founded as a military settlement by Emperor Trajan around AD 100 and its original scope was to be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: grid, military, roman, square, town

Constructing Abstraction. Pablo Picasso’s Constellation Drawings (1924)

February 13, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

The Constellations drawings are a series of sketches by Pablo Picasso drawn on sixteen pages of a notebook in 1924. For these small drawings in black … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Fields Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, ink, sketches

Understanding the Grid /1: Michel Ecochard’s Planning and Building Framework in Casablanca

December 7, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

French architect Michel Ecochard, also trained as an archeologist, was the director of the Morocco Department of Urban Planning from 1946 to 1952 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: colonialism, grid, housing, planning, ubranism

“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen

October 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields, Territories Tagged With: antimonument, land art, memorial, monument, open form

On Continuous Space: Louis Kahn’s Olivetti-Underwood Factory

September 14, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

In 1966 Italian typewriters and related products company Olivetti asked architect Louis Kahn to design their factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, factory, modular

Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)

September 10, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Project E-2 (1968-1971) by Hiromi Fujii is an example of the Japanese architect's research on "neutral" architecture, one liberated from any burden of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: abstract, grid, House, Japan

Anatomy of The Line: Drawings by Esjieun Kim

June 1, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Korean artist and architect Esjieun Kim is interested in the relationship between drawing, movement, and space. The medium which operates the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields Tagged With: drawing, line

Ivan Leonidov’s Competition Proposal for the Town of Magnitogorsk (1930)

April 12, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

In 1930, the Russian architects group OSA, with Ivan Leonidov as team leader, took part in the competition of the urban design of the chemical and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Disurbanism, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: competition, linear city, planning, proposal, Urbanism

The Free University of Berlin (Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm – 1963)

October 29, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The international competition for the new campus of the philological institute in Berlin was won by architects Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cluster Urbanism, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Territories Tagged With: berlin, building

The House of Glass Was Suddenly All Solid Walls, A Project by Anne Holtrop (2006)

October 19, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Not much happens in A.M. Homes's short story "The Weather Outside Is Sunny and Bright": the protagonist visits her Alzheimer's mother, takes a bath, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Disurbanism, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Housing the Multitude Tagged With: dwelling, wall

Grid, No Corridors, No Open Floor: Casa Mora by Ábalos y Herreros

October 9, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Casa Mora is an unbuilt project by Iñaki Ábalos y Juan Herreros, two Spanish architects who worked together from 1985 until 2008. (Cf another post … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dysfunctional Plans, Fields Tagged With: domestic, House, sequence

The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)

July 5, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

As a former British Army Captain converted to scholar of early Muslim architecture, K. A. C. Creswell coined the expression "The even covering of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields, Territories Tagged With: drawing, field, sam jacob

Extended Sequence of Flowing Spaces: 33rd Lane (Geoffrey Bawa’s House in Colombo – Sri Lanka) – 1959-1970

March 24, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

Geoffrey Bawa’s house in Colombo (1959 - 1970) is an exercise in horizontal densification. The result of decades-old process of annexation of four … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Territories Tagged With: House, plans

Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)

December 5, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Now that the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale finally came to an end, we think it is the right time to publish this interesting short essay by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: bourgeois myth, city, koolhaas, Urban

The Field and the Nave: the Mezquita of Córdoba

April 11, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

  The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, also called the Mezquita, is a medieval Islamic mosque that was converted into a Catholic Christian … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields Tagged With: Cathedral, mosque, plan, Spain

Marco Cadioli’s Abstract Journeys and Necessary Lines (2011 – 2013)

January 23, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  "I'm interested in the signs that man does without knowing" Mario Giacomelli   Marco Cadioli is an Italian net artist and teacher … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Fields, Technology, Territories Tagged With: form of form

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

Emma McNally’s Fields, Charts, Soundings Cartographies

March 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Emma McNally's work is an artistic cartography of imaginary nodes, network topologies, noise patterns, musical notations. Traces and scatters shape an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Fields, Territories Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, form of form, illustrations, maps, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird web

Stan Allen: Diagrams of Field Conditions, 1996

August 27, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

“All grids are fields, but not all fields are grids. One of the potentials of the field is to redefine the relation between figure and ground. If we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, visions

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