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...]
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...]
Kon Wajiro’s Archaeology of Present Times
Japanese architect, sociologist, and educator Kon Wajiro was living in Tokyo when the violent 1923 earthquake occurred. With his students, he visited … [Read more...]
The One-Room Apartment by Cornelius Meyer (1689)
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...]
An Immaterial Drawing in Space: Alberto Giacometti’s The Palace at 4 a.m. (1933)
A 1933 sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m. relates to "a period of six months passed in the presence of a woman who, concentrating … [Read more...]
Max Bill’s Exhibition pavilion of the City of Ulm at the National Exhibition of Baden/Württemberg – Stuttgart, Germany (1955)
In 1955 the city of Ulm commissioned architect Max Bill, Rector of the Ulm University of Design, to plan and execute a pavilion for the … [Read more...]
Alvin Boyarsky, Chicago à la carte, The City as an Energy System (1968)
This post introduces a series of heterogeneous articles on Chicago, the city and its architecture: sparse attempts to convey different looks at the … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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