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Ich bin ein Berliner

January 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

BEER WAS BETTER THERE ICH BIN EIN BERLINER Read more on We Make Money not Art: Book review: Atlas of the Conflict. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, social

Miniature buildings by Evol

November 21, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Berlin based street artist Evol turns electric boxes and small planters into miniature buildings, often adorned with characters. His process involves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art-2, street, world weird web

Mp5 + To/Let in Germany

November 2, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Our super talented friend Mp5, with all-female collective To/Let, just painted a huge wall on an abandoned building in Germany. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, comics, go public, illustrations, world weird web

Human Landscape

October 1, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Florida housing view from above. On Big Picture, of course. Click here for more. Bonus: (Arcade Fire, Sprawl I - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: form of form, land art, photography, world weird itself, world weird web

Sketches by Grupo Aranea

September 30, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Spanish architects and multidisciplinar thinkers Grupo Aranea use to draw beautiful sketches: I can't help posting some of them on Socks. More here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, land art, world weird web

Old Stomach of Paris

September 27, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Destruction de Pavillons des Halles "Début des opérations de rénovation du quartier des Halles avec le démontage et/ou la destruction des Pavillons … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, photography, urban chronicles

Imaginary buildings by Filip Dujardin

September 20, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Belgian artist Filip Dujardin cuts, pastes and recomposes photographs, creating a dystopian fiction of imaginary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, photography, world weird web

An escape into the realm of imagination

August 9, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

“Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin are the best known of a loosely organized group of Soviet artists known as Paper Architects, who designed much but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, past futures, urban chronicles

Cities: Moving

August 9, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A walking city (Archigram / Ron Herron). Read what we already wrote on Peter Cook of Archigram (sorry, italian only). Wandering Turtle, in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, past futures

Architects (and artists) dressed as buildings.

August 7, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

As an ideal complement to the Dreamlands exhibition on Centre Pompidou, which we strongly suggest you to visit today, (since tomorrow will be the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, past futures, people, urban chronicles, visions

80’s punk at Rome’s slaughterhouse (Mattatoio di Testaccio)

August 5, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A quite popular Italian personality from the 80's, Jo Squillo was formerly known as a singer for "seminal" Italian punk/new wave feminist bands like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Sounds Tagged With: Architecture, Art, Sounds

Autour du Centre Pompidou, Paris (avant, pendant et après).

July 26, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Beautiful collection of historical video-documents about the Centre Pompidou: design, construction, opening and some extras from Ina.fr. Sorry, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, visions

Kids ♥ SANAA

July 5, 2010 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

After the parkour on BIG's mountain dwelling in Copenaghen, and the trial on Snøhetta’s Opera House in Oslo, here you can find another “extreme” sport … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, japanism, land art, visions

Despite its horrible name

June 28, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Equally loved and hated, (and among the most pirated pieces of software ever), AutoCAD will soon be 30 yo. The standard software for architecture and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: world weird web

The loose and lost walled city of Kowloon

June 21, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Described by Steven Poole as an "oasis of political … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, land art, past futures, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve

June 15, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Sounds Tagged With: Architecture, Sounds, world weird web

Pictures from a vanished country

November 9, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The fall of the Iron Curtain in pictures Via: Kottke. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, photography, urban chronicles, world weird itself

‘London after the Rain’ by Ben Olszyna-Marzys

October 1, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Produced in 2007-8 for Nic Clear's Unit 15 course, 'Crash: Architectures of the Near Future', at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. More … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: animations, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

David Byrne: A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"Size A city can't be too small. Size guarantees anonymity. (...) Density If a city doesn't have sufficient density, as in L.A., then strange … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: literature, people, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

The Sci-fi Corridors

September 19, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In praise of one of the most prominent architectural elements in every Sci-Fi movie: the corridor.   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, movies, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Pixel City – Procedurally generated city

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is a demonstration of a program to generate and fly through a dynamically generated city. You can read the step-by-step of how it was made at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, world weird web

Nike Air Pompidou

September 14, 2008 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Non capita tutti i giorni che un paio di scarpe, benché rivoluzionario, nasca per ispirazione da un edificio altrettanto rivoluzionario. Pare … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, industrial design, Technology, visions, world weird web

Arbores Latae, Diller Scofidio + Renfro

September 14, 2008 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Arbores Latae, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, alla Biennale di Liverpool. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, go public, land art, Technology, visions, world weird web

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