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...]
Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952)
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...]
The Architecture of Cooking. Illustrations from: Urbain Dubois, La Cuisine Artistique, 1872
Urbain Dubois (1818-1901) was a French chef, an innovator of the art of the cuisine and a prolific author. During his life, he authored a series of … [Read more...]
The Origins of The Plan: Forma Urbis Romae (between 203 and 211 CE)
The Forma Urbis Romae or Forma Urbis Severiana was a very large map of the imperial city of Rome (18 m long by 13 m high) carved on 151 marble slabs … [Read more...]
The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)
Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as … [Read more...]
Ana Frois, Greenhouses (2015-17)
Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small … [Read more...]
Fausto Melotti, Weightless Constructions (1960’s – 1980’s)
“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. … [Read more...]
When Vision becomes Space: Athanasius Kircher’s Camera Obscura (1646)
In his magnum opus on light, projections, and astronomy, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae ("the Great Art of Light and Shadows," polymath Jesuit scholar and … [Read more...]
Irena Gajic’s 100 Houses
We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture … [Read more...]
Architectura Curiosa Nova, by Georg Andreas Böckler (1664)
Georg Andreas Böckler, a German architect and engineer, wrote the books Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661) and Architectura Curiosa Nova … [Read more...]
Plans of Warfare: Figures from Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Art of War
Written between 1519 and 1520, Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War) was the only historical-political essay published by Niccolò Machiavelli during … [Read more...]
Spaces Left Behind: Paintings by Zsofia Schweger
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...]
A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).
In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing", a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development … [Read more...]
Imaginary Places for Mundane Activities: Works by Max Guther
Max Guther is a German illustrator who constructs imaginary worlds through axonometric projections. His images usually depict details from urban views … [Read more...]
The Search for the “Open Form”: The Extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery by Oskar and Zofia Hansen (1958)
The project for the extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery was an unbuilt project developed by Polish architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen, with Lech … [Read more...]
Irena Gajic, Nine Rooms To Die In. (2016)
Belgrade-based Irena Gajic clearly reveals her architectural background in her illustrations. Most of her works, commissioned by magazines and by … [Read more...]
Espen Vatn Et Al: In Hannes Meyer Pockets: 12 Life Factories, 2014
I had the pleasure of meeting Norwegian architect Espen Vatn in Chicago at his lecture at the UIC School of Architecture in 2018. Among the many … [Read more...]
The Eastern Workers Village at Amarna (c. 1349-1332 BCE)
The Eastern Workers village at Amarna in Egypt (c. 1349-1332 BCE) was a walled settlement located in the North-East side of the city and intended for … [Read more...]
Visual Groups and Cluster Planning, The Pendrecht District in Rotterdam by the Opbouw (1949-1956)
The urban plan for the district of Pendrecht, in the south of Rotterdam, is one of the most representative projects of the urban theories developed in … [Read more...]
Human Structures and Architectural Archetypes: Aldo Van Eyck’s Playgrounds (1947 – 1978)
A hugely influential Dutch architect and theorist, Aldo Van Eyck conducted a thirty-years-long (1947 - 1978) research through practice designing … [Read more...]
House “for a society that had nothing”, the Soho House by Alison and Peter Smithson, 1953
In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson designed a house for themselves for an infill site in Colville place in Soho neighborhood, in London, on an area … [Read more...]
Pia-Mélissa Laroche, “Hyper demeures” and Other Graphite Drawings
Pia-Mélissa Laroche is an illustrator living and working in Paris, France. Her works, often represented through axonometric projections, depict … [Read more...]
An Inverted Tower: Well of the Citadel of Turin, by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
In his Dictionnaire des termes employés dans la construction ...: volume G.-Z, (1872) Pierre Chabat, wrote: 'Considered from the point of view of … [Read more...]
Peter Eisenman, Notes on Conceptual Architecture. Towards a Definition. (1970)
The issue 78/79 of Design Quarterly (journal published in 1970 by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) was completely dedicated to possible … [Read more...]
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