Jon Koko is an artist who currently lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. His square illustrations and paintings are carefully balanced scenes with mostly … [Read more...]
A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii
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...]
From Geometry to Architecture: “Collision House” by Vito Acconci (1981)
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...]
Indian Memory: A Series of Ceramics by Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1972-73)
Pepper, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Basilico, Cherry, Lapislazzuli, Camomilla and Sugar are eight colorful potteries designed by Ettore Sottsass between 1972 … [Read more...]
Andrea Grützner, Erbgericht/Guesthouse (2014)
Andrea Grützner (1984) is a photographer living and working in Berlin. In the series Erbgericht, the artist depicts a traditional village guesthouse … [Read more...]
Architettura Trumeau: Piero Fornasetti and Gio Ponti’s Small Scale Architecture (1951)
In French, the word trumeau defines the central pillar of a portal in a gothic architecture, but it also indicates, more generically, the wall space … [Read more...]
Architectural Spaces in Tony Bevan’s Paintings
Tony Bevan is a British artist who currently lives and works in London. The architectural spaces in his paintings are described by thickly painted … [Read more...]
Herbert Bayer’s Small Architectural Projects (1924)
Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural … [Read more...]
Ben Kafton’s Screenprints of Disconnected Planes
Ben Kafton's screenprints and drawings depict clear architectural and landscape themes (fractured buildings, disconnected planes, reliefs) or pure … [Read more...]
Axonometric Projections as a Project: Drawings by Alberto Sartoris
A relevant figure in the Rationalist movement, Italian-Swiss architect Alberto Sartoris (1901-1998) represented most of his projects in black and … [Read more...]
Taylor Mazer, Miniature Drawings of the Ordinary Midwest
Taylor Mazer is an artist and teacher living and working in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. His work consists of very detailed miniature ink drawings. Working … [Read more...]
A Small, Rationalist Monument by Giuseppe Terragni (1934)
In 1934, while working on larger commissions and competitions, Giuseppe Terragni designed this small memorial for Roberto Sarfatti, son of Margherita … [Read more...]
A Tough Exercise in Simplicity: Vaccaro’s Kindergarten in Piacenza.
This small kindergarten, made by only two classrooms, is located on the outskirts of Piacenza in Italy and was designed by Giuseppe Vaccaro starting … [Read more...]
The Inner Rooms of Kate Shepherd
Kate Shepherd is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. In her paintings, prints and silkscreens, Robert Mangold minimalism and … [Read more...]
Matter, Structure and Form of Life: Der Fels ist mein Haus, by Werner Blaser (1976)
In “Der Fels ist mein Haus = La rocher est ma demeure = The rock is my home", Werner Blaser analyses Swiss vernacular stone architecture. The … [Read more...]
Archetypes and Free Plan: Orinda House by Charles W. Moore
Orinda House, also known as "Moore House" is located in a valley behind San Francisco, was designed by architect Charles W. Moore for himself and … [Read more...]
“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” by Ben Tolman
"Weltschmerz" and "Made in Sarajevo" are two series of ink drawings by Washington DC-based artist Ben Tolman. The first one is a collection made in … [Read more...]
Alison and Peter Smithsons’ Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the “Solar pavilion”), 1959-1962
The Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the Solar pavilion) was Alison and Peter Smithsons’ weekend home in Wiltshire in the countryside in South-West … [Read more...]
The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere
Stijn Jonckheere, a Belgian self-titled "experimental architect", works on the brink of architecture, illustration and graphic design. His working … [Read more...]
Portraying Stillness: Alex Lowery’s Paintings.
Alex Lowery is a British painter who depicts landscapes composed of few elements: houses, skies, surfaces which become fields, streets, beaches or … [Read more...]
Estates of Tomorrow, by Catherine O’Donnell (2013)
Catherine O'Donnell is an Australian visual artist whose practice "is about the beauty of the uncelebrated and ordinary", looking for the intrinsic … [Read more...]
Two Rooms Filled with Dirt: The New York Earth Room by Walter De Maria and the House in the Mud by Santiago Sierra
The New York Earth Room is an interior land-art installation by artist Walter de Maria. Since 1977, 197 cubic meters of earth fill a room on the … [Read more...]
Mario Manieri Elia, The History of Architectural Design (2001)
After proposing the last chapter of Complexity and Contradiction, we would like to publish here a rare text by recently passed away architect, … [Read more...]
Don’t Be Afraid of Bad Dreams: Rik Smits’ Cities and Landscapes
Rik Smits is a Dutch artist who works with several media. His large pencil drawings depict cities and landscapes sceneries, sometimes with a realistic … [Read more...]
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