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François Marius Granet’s Spaces Under Vaults

November 19, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

French painter and watercolourist François Marius Granet, (1775-1849), a scholar of Jacques-Louis David, lived and worked for several years of his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Interiors, light, monks, shadows, watercolors

National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1967)

November 17, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

The (unbuilt) competition project for the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, was a sort of religious building, or rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: information age, venturi

Communal Living Around a Void: The Shabonos, Dwellings of the Yanomami Tribes

November 16, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

The shabonos (or yanos) are the traditional communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They are circular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: communal, jungle, round houses

The Ideal City of Chaux by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1773-1806)

November 9, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

In 1789, during the Revolution and specifically during his imprisonment, architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux started the project for the "Ideal City of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: chaux, utopia, utopian city

Robert Venturi, The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole

November 6, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Here, we propose on Socks the tenth and last chapter (excluding the "Works" section) of Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: postmodernism, venturi

The “Grand Hotel Babylon” by Adolf Loos (1923)

November 5, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

In 1923, Austrian and Czechoslovak architect Adolf Loos conceived the project for a terraced hotel of 700 rooms in Nice, the so-called "Grand Hotel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude Tagged With: gradins, hotel, terraced, ziggurat

“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen

October 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields, Territories Tagged With: antimonument, land art, memorial, monument, open form

Almost Metabolist: The New Sky Building #3 by Yoji Watanabe

October 23, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The New Sky Building #3 is a 1972 project by Yoji Watanabe built in Higashi-Shinjuku, Tokyo. The building is made up of a central core, which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude Tagged With: capsules, housing, Japan, metabolism, shared housing

Piero Portaluppi’s Wagristoratore (1929-30)

October 22, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Wagristoratore, opened in 1930, is a project by Milan-born architect Piero Portaluppi. Located in Passo di San Girolamo at a height of 2318 meters … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: dada, ready-made, trains

On Continuous Space: Louis Kahn’s Olivetti-Underwood Factory

September 14, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

In 1966 Italian typewriters and related products company Olivetti asked architect Louis Kahn to design their factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, factory, modular

How to Make Architecture Disappear: Ice House I and II by Gianni Pettena (1971-1972)

September 11, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Italian artist Gianni Pettena conceived a series of works which might be considered on the brink between land art and architecture. Two of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: ice, landart, suburbs, USA

Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)

September 10, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Project E-2 (1968-1971) by Hiromi Fujii is an example of the Japanese architect's research on "neutral" architecture, one liberated from any burden of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: abstract, grid, House, Japan

The Dining and Assembly Hall at Brunswick Primary School by J.Stirling and J.Gowan (1961-1962)

September 7, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Dining and Assembly Hall at Brunswick Primary School is a project by James Stirling and James Gowan. Completed in 1962, it is composed of a single … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: bricks, square

The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma, 1969

August 31, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma was built in Osaka in 1969, a few years after the completion of the Tower House in Tokyo. The principles behind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

The Temporary Inhabitant (L’Habitant Temporaire) by Thomas Batzenschlager

August 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

"L’Habitant Temporaire" is a project by Thomas Batzenschlager, a French architect living and working in Santiago (Chile), which takes the form of an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: Black and White, Interiors

Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka

August 27, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Tomoyuki Tanaka is a Japanese architect who creates mesmerizing x-ray drawings of Tokyo's major stations. These are precise ballpoint pen descriptions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: ballpoint pen, drawings, infrastructures, Japan, stations, tokyo

Monuments for a Future Civilization: Paintings by Minoru Nomata

August 23, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Japanese artist Minoru Nomata graduated from the Design Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and started working as a painter at the end of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: monuments, Paintings, towers

Brutal Domesticity: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens (1974)

August 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The residence in Sint-Martens-Latem near Ghent was designed by Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens for the teacher Albert Van Wassenhove in 1974. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: belgium, brutalism

A Visual Compendium of the Real World: Illustrations by Takeda Yoshifumi

August 21, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Takeda Yoshifumi is a Japanese illustrator and painter currently base in Tokyo. His work consists mostly of small, detailed illustrations with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawings, illustrations, ink, pencil

“The most vivid, built example of Venturi’s contradiction in architecture”: Ni-Ban-Kahn by Minoru Takeyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo (1970)

August 19, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

In 1970 Japanese architect Minoru Takeyama designed a building in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, simply called the Ni-Ban-Kahn (Building Number Two), while his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Japan, leisure, Post-Modernism

The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)

July 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

Built in Tokyo in 1966, the Tower house by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma is developed around a staircase which distributes its six levels. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

Illustrating through Parallel Lines: Works by Owen D. Pomery

July 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Owen D. Pomery has an  educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, illustration, sketches

Giulio Paolini’s Set Design for Teorema (1999)

July 14, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

On the occasion of the staging of the ballet Teorema in 1999, (produced by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino from an adaptation of the novel and film … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: scene, set, set design

“Habitat and the City”: Competition Entry by Neutelings, Wall, De Geyter and Roodbeen (1990)

July 13, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1990 the "Competition Habitatge i Ciutat" (Housing and City) was promoted by the review Quaderns of Barcelona. The entry by W.J. Neutelings, A. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: axonometric projection, competition, habitat, housing, interior

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