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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

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

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

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 Shape of Knowledge: The Mundaneum by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine

May 5, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Mankind is at a turning point in its history. The mass of data acquired is astounding. We need new instruments to simplify it, to condense it, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: data, information, inner space, knowledge, network

The Charterhouse of Padua, a Forgotten Place, (Marco Lumini and Alberto Michielotto)

April 28, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

We usually don’t accept text contributions for SOCKS, but we made an exception for this article on the Charterhouse in Padua, Italy featuring original … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: charterhouse, community, incomplete

Spatializing Knowledge: Giulio Camillo’s Theatre of Memory (1519-1544)

March 3, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480-1544) was an Italian Renaissance polymath. His most famous project, started in ca.1519 and carried on until his death, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: cognition, memory, mind, renaissance, spatialization, theatre

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

The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)

September 27, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: communication, exhibition, museum, networks, phone

David Katz’s Psychological Atlas (1948)

December 24, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

David Katz's Psychological Atlas (1948), is a collection of drawings, photographs, diagrams, and charts used by the author, a renowned psychologist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: atlas, image, psychology

Peter Eisenman, Notes on Conceptual Architecture. Towards a Definition. (1970)

December 15, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The issue 78/79 of Design Quarterly (journal published in 1970 by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) was completely dedicated to possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: concept, conceptual architecture, eisenman, lippard

Ben Shahn, Untitled Drawing Series, (1948)

November 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, the Hickmans were one among many African Americans families looking for affordable housing in Chicago. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawing, segregation, social

A Portrait of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos (1845-62)

April 17, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German geographer, explorer and naturalist who traveled extensively to Latin America and put the basis for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: atlas, cosmos, current, nature, universe, world

Estates of Tomorrow, by Catherine O’Donnell (2013)

January 8, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Catherine O'Donnell is an Australian visual artist whose practice "is about the beauty of the uncelebrated and ordinary", looking for the intrinsic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: drawing, everyday, ordinary, suburban

Surviving the Fall. Late 19th to early 20th Century Ligurian Ex-Votos

November 25, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

These ex-votos ("Per Grazia Ricevuta" or PGR, in Italian) are popular expressions of religious gratitude and public testimony of faith, from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: ex-voto, popular, religion, vernacular

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

Boats of the Pearl River (1800-1820)

November 13, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

This series of paintings dates back to 1800-1820 and depicts a series of different types of boats that use to cross the Pearl River in Guangzhou, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: boat, China, pearl river

Herman Volz’s Depictions of San Francisco’s Industrialization (1930’s-1940’s)

November 8, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Herman Roderick Volz (1904–1990) was a Swiss-American painter, muralist, lithographer, set designer, decorative artist and ceramist.  As an advocate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: industrialization, litograph

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