Tessenow's drawings are immediatly recognizable for being straightforward and yet precise in the description of a building or a space. The essence of … [Read more...]
Apocalyptic Woodcuts, Etchings and Litographs by Palle Nielson
Palle Nielsen (1920-2000) was a Danish graphic artist who worked with several media throughout his career: woodcuts, linocuts, etching, lithography, … [Read more...]
A Non-Figurative Memorial: The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps in Milan by BBPR (1946)
The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps was designed by the Milanese architecture group BBPR in 1945 in the weeks following the … [Read more...]
Eva Hesse’s Circles and Grids Drawings: Ordered Systems as and Expression of an Obsessive, Introspective Quality
Repetition as a formal and conceptual strategy has been employed by artist Eva Hesse (1936-1970) throughout her career with series of drawings on … [Read more...]
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The Form of Form [Announcing the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016]
We are happy to announce that Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli (Socks-Studio / Microcities) will contribute as content curators to "The Form of … [Read more...]
“How Do We Represent Something That We Never Look At?” Drawings by Martinet et Texereau
Pauline Martinet and Zoé Texereau are two French artists who work together producing common drawings with a shared aesthetics. They provided … [Read more...]
A Growing, Incremental Place – Incremental Time: “Victims”, a Project by John Hejduk (1984)
"Victims" is the title of John Hejduk's entry for the 1984 Prinz-Albert-Palais competition in Berlin for the construction of a memorial park. The site … [Read more...]
“The Set and the Script” in Architecture: The Manhattan Transcripts (1976-1981) by Bernard Tschumi
Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space. B.Tschumi Developed between 1976 and 1981, … [Read more...]
A Land-Art of Imagination: Drawings by František Lesák
František Lesák is a Czech artist who moved to Vienna in 1964. In the series Berglandschaft (Mountain Landscape, 1972-1973), today part of the … [Read more...]
The Beauty of Indeterminacy. Graphic Scores from “Treatise” by Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981) was a British music composer, who worked as an assistant for Karlheinz Stockhausen for three years. Apparently, after … [Read more...]
Relief– Architecturer l’Horizon (an exhibition at the Frac Center in Orléans)
"Relief– Architecturer l’horizon" is an exhibition which took place at "Le Turbulences", the Orléans Frac centre between 10/04/2015 and 30/08/2015. … [Read more...]
The New Landscape in Art and Science by György Kepes
The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo … [Read more...]
El Lissitzky’s “Cabinet of Abstraction”
El Lissitzky’s "Cabinet of Abstraction" (Kabinett der Abstrakten) was commissioned in 1927 by Alexander Dorner for the Hannover Provincial Museum. In … [Read more...]
Ultimate Disaster and Other Drawings by Isabel Seliger
Isabel Seliger is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her works range from colourful illustrations to short comics, to black and white … [Read more...]
The “Haus der Freundschaft” (House of Friendship): a Megaform in Istanbul by Hans Poelzig (1916)
In 1916 an invited architectural competition was held in order to decide the scheme of a building which should have celebrated the alliance … [Read more...]
The Battle of Manhattan: Reliving the 1776 Revolution in the City of Today
In 1975 New York Magazine (Oct 20. 1975) published an article by Dorothy Seiberling summarizing, by means of a hypothetical journal, the crucial … [Read more...]
Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons
Polish-Russian artist Kasimir Malevich is mostly known for his paintings that accompanied the artist's evolution from abstract art to … [Read more...]
Earliest Land-Art: Herbert Bayer and Fritz Benedict’s Green Mound and Marble Garden (1954-1955)
''I believe that the artist must achieve creative control over the whole of his environment.''- Herbert Bayer : New York Times, October 21, … [Read more...]
“Making Cinema Out of Cinema”: G.Baruchello and A.Grifi’s La Verifica Incerta (1964-65)
The pencil, the pen, the moviola, the camera and the recorders have taught me to 'somehow' assemble words, pictures, objects, my very existence. (A … [Read more...]
The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)
As a former British Army Captain converted to scholar of early Muslim architecture, K. A. C. Creswell coined the expression "The even covering of the … [Read more...]
Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems
Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, … [Read more...]
Gustavs Klucis’s ‘Constructions’ and Other Works
Gustavs Klucis (1895 - 1938) was a painter, sculptor and graphic designer. He was born in Latvia, but spent most of his life in Moscow, until being a … [Read more...]
City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos, by Manuel Maples Arce
Here is my poem brutal and manifold of the new city, Oh city all tense with cables and exertions resonant with motors and wings. Urbe … [Read more...]
Julien Rodriguez: “La Marche Sensible”
Julien Rodriguez is a student at the "Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs de Paris". Every time he visits a building or an exhibition, the young … [Read more...]
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