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Socks-Studio/Microcities in 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale: State of Exception (Spacelab’s Weekend Monditalia Special)

August 20, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Thanks to the kind invitation of the guys at the Italian design and architecture studio Spacelab (Luca Silenzi + Zoè Chantall Monterubbiano … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories

The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals by Hans Van der Laan

August 17, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals (Netherlands) is a Benedectin Abbey which was built starting in 1922 as a simple quadrilater with two towers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: form of form, proportions, religious architecture, theory

Les Immatériaux (an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985)

July 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

30 years are passed since a historic exhibition took place at the Centre Pompidou (specifically at the Centre de Création industrielle). Curated by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media, Sounds, Technology, Territories Tagged With: exhibition, postmodern

Section Drawings by Céline Jesberger and Pierre-Louis Filippi

June 23, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Two former students of ours, at the Atelier we teached in with Luca Galofaro two years ago, (dedicated to "Religion"), Céline and Pierre-Louis proved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, drawings

Being in Love Eases the Pain, Illustrations by Harriet Lee Merrion

June 18, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Harriet Lee-Merrion (b. 1991) is a free-lance illustrator living in Bristol, originally from Falmouth, Cornwall. Her recurring theme is the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: illustration, psychology

Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition (14th Venice Biennale of Architecture – 2014)

June 16, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

  Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition is a research project by architect and historian Léa-Catherine Szacka, on display at the 14th … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Biennale, exhibition, venice biennale

Ground Floor Crisis (14th Venice Biennale of Architecture – 2014)

June 9, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

"Ground Floor Crisis" is one of the projects exhibited during the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale of 2014. The work, developed by Matteo Ghidoni … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: crisis, economy, ground floor

Giorgio Scarpa’s Models of Rotational Geometry (1978)

May 21, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Genesis of form. Motion is at the root of all growth — Paul Klee Giorgio Scarpa (1938-2012) was an Italian designer, bionics researcher, artist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: drawings, form of form, nature, paper models, rotational geometry

Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, by Francis Galton (1863)

May 11, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

English Victorian polymath, sir Francis Galton was a psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: form of form, mapping, meteo, representation, weather

Miniatura (Searching Analogous Relations in São Paulo’s Incongruous Reality)

April 7, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Bruna Canepa is an illustrator, architect, writer for the music blog Suppaduppa and co-founder of Miniatura, a project she created with architect and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: collages, drawings, illustrations, sao paulo

Project of my ‘Self’, by Golnar Abbasi

March 16, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Project of my 'self' is a tumblr curated by Golnar Abbasi which contains the elements of the author's postgraduate thesis project at The Berlage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: rooms, tumblr, work and life

Ascii-Art Mapping: SyMAP (or Early Computer Generated Cartography)

March 11, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  William Caraher, assistant professor at the University of North Dakota and writer of the site "The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: archaeology, Cartography, computer, form of form, mapping

Space Replay, an Eerie Space Manipulating Device

March 10, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Space replay is a project designed by Francesco Tacchini, Julinka Ebhardt and Will Yates-Johnson of the London's Royal College of Art. As the title … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: arduino, installation, video

Notes for a Short History of the Anti-Monument /1 : Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monuments

March 6, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Claes Oldenburg's unbuilt "Monuments" are imaginary anti-memorials designed by the artist at the end of the 1960s. Their paradoxical anti-monumental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawings, form of form, monument, sculpture

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The Three Mawangdui Maps: Early Chinese Cartography

March 2, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Between 1972 to 1974 three tombs in the archaeological site of Mawangdui, China, were excavated. In one of them, the archaeologists … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Cartography, China, early map, form of form, map

To Transcend Reality and Function as Symbol: Stage Design of Edward Gordon Craig

February 15, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Born in 1872 as illegitimate son of an architect and of the revered actress Dame Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig was raised as an actor in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawings, engraving, form of form, scene, set design, stage design, theatre

Structures to Let Man Fly: Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites

February 4, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Photography from Bell Collection  Between 1895 and 1910 famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell worked on the construction of kites, designing, building … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology Tagged With: Bell, flying, inventions, kite, kites

Mapping the ‘Bloody Week’: The Last Days of the Paris Commune in a Cartographic Narrative

January 29, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  The events that occurred in the last month of La Commune, - the socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: army, Art, Cartography, commune, military, socialism, strategy, war

‘Forest’ and Other Interpretations of Nature by Jamie Mills

January 26, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

    A series of drawings by English artist, illustrator & animator Jamie Mills show commodified fragments of fauna and flora … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories

Science Fiction and Architecture in the Work of Frank R. Paul

January 24, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Born in Vienna in 1884, Frank R. Paul studied architecture, but applied his knowledge and passion in this field to illustrate cityscapes of a future … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture

Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves

January 16, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 7 Comments

  The stick charts were the main tool the Marshallese used to navigate on canoe across the islands of the Pacific Ocean, until WWII. Lacking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Territories Tagged With: form of form, information graphics, Technology, world weird web

Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army

January 10, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

  Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: psychogeographies, Sounds, Technology, war, world weird web

Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)

December 8, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Jivya Soma Mashe is a central figure in Indian tribal art, as he was the one who turned the Warli tribal art from a predominantly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Art, past futures, world weird web

Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects

December 8, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto del … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Chiattoni, Futurismo, past futures, urban chronicles, visions

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