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From Vision to Knowledge: Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower (1892)

December 27, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Scottish geographer, biologist, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes bought a tower next to the Edinburgh Castle in 1892. In over 20 years, he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Interior Landscapes, Media, Visual Atlas Tagged With: camera obscura, exhibition, knowledge, museum, spatialisation

Architecture as a Mnemonic Device: Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music

November 1, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

English physician and polymath Robert Fludd (1574-1637) had interests spanning from scientific knowledge to occult disciplines. His approach to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds, Visual Atlas Tagged With: art of memory, hermetism, music

The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)

September 6, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: pixelated, rooms, section, videogame

“Its unfinished decoration in danger of slipping beneath the eye to hurtle wildly across the crumbling walls.” The Cage, a Visual-Novel, by Martin Vaughn-James (1975)

July 12, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: comic, graphic novel

Patterns from the World Underneath: The Ecological Relations of Roots by John Ernest Weaver (1919)

June 21, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The ecological relations of roots (1919) is a book by John Ernest Weaver (1884 – 1966),  an American biologist and prairie ecologist. During his life, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Fields, Territories Tagged With: botany, plants, roots, scientific drawings

Ryan Carl, Grid Forms Study 02 (2020)

April 18, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

After Circle Study 07, the second work by designer Ryan Carl that we feature here on Socks is a sequence of geometric operations on grid forms … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: geometry, grid, grids

Ryan Carl, Circle Study 07 (2020)

April 15, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The work of Ryan Carl is "rooted in radical simplicity". A designer who studied religion and philosophy before opening his practice, Ryan Carl delves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: circles, form, formal abstraction, grid

The Architecture of the Workspace: Axonometric Drawings by Peter Judson

April 10, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Peter Judson is a British designer and illustrator. (Already featured, on Socks).  For his project "Hyundai card", commissioned by design studio … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: axonometrics, Black and White, illustration, office

An Exercise in Constraints: Drawings by Wacław Szpakowski (1883-1973)

March 29, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect, engineer and artist. Starting at seventeen years old and throughout his whole life, he developed a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Visual Atlas Tagged With: drawing, line

Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)

February 23, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: axonometric projection, Landscape, photography, Urban

A Visual Thinking Strategy: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors (1982)

February 16, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) accompanied his life-long architectural and theoretical production with a parallel work on found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: analogy, essay, maps, metaphor, visual thinking

Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil.

February 6, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Founded by Lina Bo and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi in 1950, the Brazilian magazine Habitat ("The magazine of the arts in Brazil") manifested a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: drawing, indigenous, portrait

Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)

January 26, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Media, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: ai, algorithm, maps, new media

Color Schemes from Geology. A Work by Uibelakers (1781)

January 16, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Franz Uibelakers was a German mineralogist. In his work, “System des Karlsbader Sinters” (1781) he presented sections of stalactites and stalagmites … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories

Mary Ellen Solt, Moonshot Sonnet (1964)

December 15, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Moonshot Sonnet is a concrete poem composed in 1964 by poet Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007). The work is a poem created reformatting diagrammatic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Representation: Graphic Scores, Technology, Territories Tagged With: concrete poetry, moon, Nasa, poem, sonnet, territories

Two Exhibitions at Iris Clert Gallery, Paris: Yves Klein’s Le Vide (The Void, 1958) and Arman’s Le Plein (The Full-Up, 1960)

November 23, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Recently my work with color has led me, in spite of myself, to search little by little, with some assistance (from the observer, from the translator), … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: conceptual art, voids

Inner Space (The Book)

November 10, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

We present Inner Space, an essay we have written in connection to the curatorship of the homonymous exhibition at the 2019 Lisbon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: book, exhibition, imagination, inner space, publication, socks

The Underlying Structure of Letters: Luca Pacioli’s Alphabet from De Divina Proportione (1509)

October 27, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franciscan friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli wrote several books on mathematics and geometry. Among them, in 1497, Pacioli conceived De Divina … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: construction, proportion, renaissance, typography

Gareth Damian Martin, Postcards from The Continuous City, 2018

October 13, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Continuous City is an in-progress photographic series by Gareth Damian Martin. The British artist, game designer and writer explores video game … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Interior Landscapes, Media, Technology, Territories, Topics Tagged With: photography, videogame

Rabanus Maurus, De laudibus sanctae crucis, (810-814)

July 21, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Rabanus Maurus was a Benedictine monk, archbishop of Mainz, writer and poet who lived between c.780 and 856. A very sophisticated intellectual, he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: cross, miniature, poem

The Aesthetics of Taxonomy: Hokusai’s Manga (1814-1878)

February 10, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Starting in 1814, when he was already 55, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika published over 4000 small drawings on extremely varied subjects. The 15 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawing lessons, Japan, sketches, taxonomy

John Mehegan, Jazz Improvisation (1959-65)

January 9, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Jazz Improvisation is a series of 4 books edited by pianist, composer, lecturer, and critic John Mehegan between 1959 and 1965. Today considered … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Sounds Tagged With: Collage, covers, graphic design, improvisation, jazz, music, photography

The Architecture of Cooking. Illustrations from: Urbain Dubois, La Cuisine Artistique, 1872

December 2, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: cuisine, kitchen, kitchenware

Ana Frois, Greenhouses (2015-17)

October 21, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: House, illustration

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