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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

The One-Room Apartment by Cornelius Meyer (1689)

November 12, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: housing, one-room apartment

Brutal Domesticity: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens (1974)

August 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: belgium, brutalism

A “Palladian” Villa in Sweden: The Norrköping House by Sverre Fehn (1963-64)

June 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 11 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: autonomous, autonomy, form of form, House, simmetry

Experiments in Minimal Living Space: Charlotte Perriand’s “Refuge Tonneau”

June 3, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) designed several structures for minimal living, temporary shelters aimed at housing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual, Technology Tagged With: minimum living, refuge

The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs (1962)

May 2, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a 'knowledge box', a compressed environment for experiencing 'culture': a cube of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Housing the Isolated Individual, Media, Technology Tagged With: cube, internet, projections

Cedric Price ‘Housing Research’ (1971) and the ‘Steel House’ (1967)

April 14, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Housing the Isolated Individual, Housing the Multitude, Technology Tagged With: experimental, flexibility, housing

Pao: Dwellings For the Tokyo Nomad Woman by Toyo Ito (1985 and 1989)

February 7, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual, Territories Tagged With: information, isolation, nomad, tent

Franco Albini’s A Room for a Man (1936)

September 30, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Housing the Isolated Individual, Technology Tagged With: albini, modernity, room

Within Four Walls: Binnenskamers by Tim Enthoven

May 8, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

"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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: ascetism, Black and White, comic, drawing, isolation

Rituals, Before and After Space

March 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, our works

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