Thanks to the kind invitation of the guys at the Italian design and architecture studio Spacelab (Luca Silenzi + Zoè Chantall Monterubbiano … [Read more...]
The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals by Hans Van der Laan
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...]
Les Immatériaux (an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985)
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...]
Section Drawings by Céline Jesberger and Pierre-Louis Filippi
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...]
Being in Love Eases the Pain, Illustrations by Harriet Lee Merrion
Harriet Lee-Merrion (b. 1991) is a free-lance illustrator living in Bristol, originally from Falmouth, Cornwall. Her recurring theme is the … [Read more...]
Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition (14th Venice Biennale of Architecture – 2014)
Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition is a research project by architect and historian Léa-Catherine Szacka, on display at the 14th … [Read more...]
Ground Floor Crisis (14th Venice Biennale of Architecture – 2014)
"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...]
Giorgio Scarpa’s Models of Rotational Geometry (1978)
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...]
Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, by Francis Galton (1863)
English Victorian polymath, sir Francis Galton was a psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, … [Read more...]
Miniatura (Searching Analogous Relations in São Paulo’s Incongruous Reality)
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...]
Project of my ‘Self’, by Golnar Abbasi
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...]
Ascii-Art Mapping: SyMAP (or Early Computer Generated Cartography)
William Caraher, assistant professor at the University of North Dakota and writer of the site "The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World" … [Read more...]
Space Replay, an Eerie Space Manipulating Device
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...]
Notes for a Short History of the Anti-Monument /1 : Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monuments
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...]
The Three Mawangdui Maps: Early Chinese Cartography
Between 1972 to 1974 three tombs in the archaeological site of Mawangdui, China, were excavated. In one of them, the archaeologists … [Read more...]
To Transcend Reality and Function as Symbol: Stage Design of Edward Gordon Craig
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...]
Structures to Let Man Fly: Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites
Photography from Bell Collection Between 1895 and 1910 famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell worked on the construction of kites, designing, building … [Read more...]
Mapping the ‘Bloody Week’: The Last Days of the Paris Commune in a Cartographic Narrative
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...]
‘Forest’ and Other Interpretations of Nature by Jamie Mills
A series of drawings by English artist, illustrator & animator Jamie Mills show commodified fragments of fauna and flora … [Read more...]
Science Fiction and Architecture in the Work of Frank R. Paul
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...]
Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves
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...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
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...]
Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)
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...]
Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects
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...]
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