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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

The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)

September 6, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: pixelated, rooms, section, videogame

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

An Exercise in Constraints: Drawings by Wacław Szpakowski (1883-1973)

March 29, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect, engineer and artist. Starting at seventeen years old and throughout his whole life, he developed a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Visual Atlas Tagged With: drawing, line

The Theatre as Machine: Joseph Furttenbach Stage Design

March 8, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Joseph Furttenbach (1591 – 1667) was a German architect, engineer and architecture theorist who lived in Italy from 1610 to 1620. During his stay … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: drawing, set design, tretise

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

A Visual Thinking Strategy: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors (1982)

February 16, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) accompanied his life-long architectural and theoretical production with a parallel work on found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: analogy, essay, maps, metaphor, visual thinking

Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil.

February 6, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Founded by Lina Bo and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi in 1950, the Brazilian magazine Habitat ("The magazine of the arts in Brazil") manifested a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: drawing, indigenous, portrait

Inner Space (The Book)

November 10, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

We present Inner Space, an essay we have written in connection to the curatorship of the homonymous exhibition at the 2019 Lisbon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: book, exhibition, imagination, inner space, publication, socks

The Underlying Structure of Letters: Luca Pacioli’s Alphabet from De Divina Proportione (1509)

October 27, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franciscan friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli wrote several books on mathematics and geometry. Among them, in 1497, Pacioli conceived De Divina … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: construction, proportion, renaissance, typography

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

The Shape of Knowledge: The Mundaneum by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine

May 5, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Mankind is at a turning point in its history. The mass of data acquired is astounding. We need new instruments to simplify it, to condense it, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: data, information, inner space, knowledge, network

The Charterhouse of Padua, a Forgotten Place, (Marco Lumini and Alberto Michielotto)

April 28, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

We usually don’t accept text contributions for SOCKS, but we made an exception for this article on the Charterhouse in Padua, Italy featuring original … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: charterhouse, community, incomplete

The Abstract Textures of the Aurelian Walls. Photographs by Giampiero Sanguigni (2019)

April 7, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Aurelian walls have marked the line of defense of Rome for 16 centuries, from their construction (270 to 275 AD), until September 20, 1870, when … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: abstract art, abstraction, aurealian walls, textures

(Review) Éric Alonzo, The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories (2018)

March 19, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

L’architecture de la voie. Histoire et Théories (“The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories”) is the bold title of a French volume that Éric … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: alonzo, Architecture, eavt marne-la-vallée, road, theory

Spatializing Knowledge: Giulio Camillo’s Theatre of Memory (1519-1544)

March 3, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480-1544) was an Italian Renaissance polymath. His most famous project, started in ca.1519 and carried on until his death, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: cognition, memory, mind, renaissance, spatialization, theatre

The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878)

February 10, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Starting in 1814, when he was already 55, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika published over 4000 small drawings on extremely varied subjects. The 15 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawing lessons, Japan, sketches, taxonomy

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

Clusters and Growth: PREVI Housing Project by James Stirling (1976)

January 20, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda), (Experimental Housing Project), was a strategic low-cost project for experimental mass housing in Peru, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: flexibility, grid, growth, housing, low-cost

The Thersilion in Megalopolis, Greece (370 BCE)

December 27, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Greek city of Megalopolis was founded between 371 and 368 BC in order to provide a counterweight to the power of Sparta and shortly belonged … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: greece, theatre

Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952)

December 9, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

In 1952, Italian architect Luigi Moretti wrote an editorial for the 7th issue of the Italian magazine Spazio, (which he directed and designed), titled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: magazine, models, negative, space, strategy of the void, void

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