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...]
The One-Room Apartment by Cornelius Meyer (1689)
Cornelis Meijer (Cornelius Meyer) (1629-1701) was a Dutch hydraulics engineer that came to Rome in 1680 to assist in the design of the banks of the … [Read more...]
Brutal Domesticity: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens (1974)
The residence in Sint-Martens-Latem near Ghent was designed by Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens for the teacher Albert Van Wassenhove in 1974. The … [Read more...]
A “Palladian” Villa in Sweden: The Norrköping House by Sverre Fehn (1963-64)
The Norrköping Villa was designed by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn in 1963-64 as a model architecture for an ideal family of four. The 150 m2 house … [Read more...]
The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs (1962)
In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a 'knowledge box', a compressed environment for experiencing 'culture': a cube of … [Read more...]
Cedric Price ‘Housing Research’ (1971) and the ‘Steel House’ (1967)
Published in a supplement of Architectural Design in 1971, this research project by architect Cedric Price is an investigation on "the good life". … [Read more...]
Rituals, Before and After Space
Two of our articles have been recently featured on the Funambulist and on Studio Magazine. In the next few days we'll talk about the former, that you … [Read more...]
