Collision House is a 1981 work by artist and architect Vito Acconci which explicitly combines two of his main interests and activities. The departing … [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...]
Experiments in Minimal Living Space: Charlotte Perriand’s “Refuge Tonneau”
French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) designed several structures for minimal living, temporary shelters aimed at housing … [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...]
Pao: Dwellings For the Tokyo Nomad Woman by Toyo Ito (1985 and 1989)
Pao I and Pao II (1985 and 1989) are two projects by Toyo Ito based on a scenario where most of the domestic functions are dissolved in the metropolis … [Read more...]
Franco Albini’s A Room for a Man (1936)
Devised as an allegorical space for the daily activities of the modern man (embodied by the modern materials of glass, linoleum, tubular steel and … [Read more...]
Within Four Walls: Binnenskamers by Tim Enthoven
"Binnenskamers" (Within four walls) is a graphic novel by Dutch artist Tim Enthoven, published in 2011. The book contains the detailed story of … [Read more...]
Nylso: ‘Cabanes’
Nylso is a French comic artist. He is mostly known for the character of 'Jérôme d’Alphagraph', (to which he dedicated five albums) and for his … [Read more...]
Inhabiting the Mediterranean Landscape: Le Corbusier’s Cabanon in Roquebrune (1952)
While working on extremely large-scale projects like the masterplans for Chandigard and for Bogotà, Le Corbusier spent his summers in a … [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...]
Michael Vlasopoulos just bought a capsule in K.Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
From Abitare, Via: the Funambulist. This is a manifesto about K. Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) in Tokyo, adopting the first-person view … [Read more...]
