Andrea Grützner (1984) is a photographer living and working in Berlin. In the series Erbgericht, the artist depicts a traditional village guesthouse … [Read more...]
A Portrait of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos (1845-62)
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...]
Estates of Tomorrow, by Catherine O’Donnell (2013)
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...]
Surviving the Fall. Late 19th to early 20th Century Ligurian Ex-Votos
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...]
“Everything important I have done can be fit into a small suitcase” *. Boîte-en-Valise by Marcel Duchamp (1936-1940)
One year before WWII broke out, Marcel Duchamp packed the entirety of his works in the smallest possible space: a commercial traveler suitcase. … [Read more...]
National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1967)
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...]
Boats of the Pearl River (1800-1820)
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...]
Herman Volz’s Depictions of San Francisco’s Industrialization (1930’s-1940’s)
Herman Roderick Volz (1904–1990) was a Swiss-American painter, muralist, lithographer, set designer, decorative artist and ceramist. As an advocate … [Read more...]
Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]
J.N.L.Durand’s “Divers Édifices publics, d’après le Champ de Mars de Piranese” in “Recueil et parallèle des édifices de tout genre, anciens et modernes” (1800)
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand's "Recueil et parallèle" is a musée imaginaire of world architecture. A large folio of 63 plates measuring 51x66 … [Read more...]
S.Tigerman and G.L. Crabtree: The Formal Generators of Structure, 1975
"The Formal Generators of Structure" is a sequence of drawings which explore orthogonal forms. The research starts from the square and the cross, two … [Read more...]
Spaces Out of Time: Set Design by Richard Peduzzi
Richard Peduzzi is a French set and furniture designer who started his career as a painter until he met with director Patrice Chéreau in 1968. Since … [Read more...]
“A Roman State of Landscape”. Exhibition and talk at Campo, Rome – June, 23rd 2016
If you are in Rome today, do not miss: A ROMAN STATE OF LANDSCAPE Exhibition and talk curated by Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli … [Read more...]
The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs (1962)
In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a 'knowledge box', a compressed environment for experiencing 'culture': a cube of … [Read more...]
Wrinkle – 10 Photoengraved Etchings by Liliana Porter With an Interview By Emmett Williams (1968)
Liliana Porter (Buenos Aires, 1941) is an Argentinian artist living and working in New York City since 1964. Using a wide range of media (photography, … [Read more...]
Travel Notes, Ettore Sottsass, Jr. (in: Terrazzo n°1, 1988)
This short, poetic article was originally published in the legendary magazine Terrazzo edited by Barbara Radice, in the very first number in … [Read more...]
Adriana Varejão: Metaphorical Body and Gore in the “Sauna Series”
Adriana Varejão (1964) is a Brazilian multimedia artist. Painting, photography, sculpture, installation: her body of work is wide and very diverse as … [Read more...]
Belief in the Age of Disbelief: 2005 Cyprien Gaillard’s Etchings
I’m interested in things failing, in the beauty of failure, and the fall in general (Cyprien Gaillard, excerpt from an interview on Interview Magazine … [Read more...]
Collapsing Utopia: Massinissa Selmani’s “1000 Villages” and the Failed Algerian Agrarian Revolution of 1973
Massinissa Selmani, an Algerian artist born in 1980, began his studies in art in Tours, France after obtaining a degree in computer science. Today, he … [Read more...]
Underground New York Speculation: “Lower East Side Quarry” by Rebecca Fode (2012)
"Lower East Side Quarry" by Rebecca Fode (at the time of the project, a student of Unit 11 at the Bartlett School of Architecture—, taught by Mark … [Read more...]
Formal Abstraction: “Bricked Castles” and “Handicapped Cars” by Beni Bischof
The works of Beni Bischof defy any categorization. A multimedia artist who works with painting, drawings, photographs, sculpture, computer graphics … [Read more...]
The House of Glass Was Suddenly All Solid Walls, A Project by Anne Holtrop (2006)
Not much happens in A.M. Homes's short story "The Weather Outside Is Sunny and Bright": the protagonist visits her Alzheimer's mother, takes a bath, … [Read more...]
From the Furniture to the City: 1964 Scale-Escalating Projects by Metabolist Kenji Ekuan
Kenji Ekuan (1929 - 2015) was an industrial designer and a central figure in Japan's Metabolist movement. The shock provoked by the sight of Hiroshima … [Read more...]
Museum of Lost Volumes by NEMESTUDIO (2015)
Mete Sonmez and Neyran Turan (NEMESTUDIO) are architects and teachers whose practice focuses on the relationship between geography and design "to … [Read more...]
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