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Irena Gajic, Nine Rooms To Die In. (2016)

June 13, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Belgrade-based Irena Gajic clearly reveals her architectural background in her illustrations. Most of her works, commissioned by magazines and by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: care, hospitalization, illustration

Espen Vatn Et Al: In Hannes Meyer Pockets: 12 Life Factories, 2014

June 6, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

I had the pleasure of meeting Norwegian architect Espen Vatn in Chicago at his lecture at the UIC School of Architecture in 2018. Among the many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Hannes Meyer, life factories

The Eastern Workers Village at Amarna (c. 1349-1332 BCE)

May 22, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Eastern Workers village at Amarna in Egypt (c. 1349-1332 BCE) was a walled settlement located in the North-East side of the city and intended for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cluster Urbanism, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: archaic, enclosure, housings, square, walls

Visual Groups and Cluster Planning, The Pendrecht District in Rotterdam by the Opbouw (1949-1956)

March 21, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The urban plan for the district of Pendrecht, in the south of Rotterdam, is one of the most representative projects of the urban theories developed in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cluster Urbanism, Territories Tagged With: planning, structuralism, Urbanism

Human Structures and Architectural Archetypes: Aldo Van Eyck’s Playgrounds (1947 – 1978)

February 11, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

A hugely influential Dutch architect and theorist, Aldo Van Eyck conducted a thirty-years-long (1947 - 1978) research through practice designing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: Concrete, Netherlands, play, playground, postwar

House “for a society that had nothing”, the Soho House by Alison and Peter Smithson, 1953

January 3, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson designed a house for themselves for an infill site in Colville place in Soho neighborhood, in London, on an area … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: anxious modernism, as found, brutalism, Concrete

Mehr Licht ! by Jochen Gerner (2010)

January 1, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

'Mehr Licht!' (More light!) cried writer and color theorist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe just before dying. Mehr Licht ! is also the title of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: landscapes, textures

Pia-Mélissa Laroche, “Hyper demeures” and Other Graphite Drawings

December 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Pia-Mélissa Laroche is an illustrator living and working in Paris, France. Her works, often represented through axonometric projections, depict … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: drawings, graphite, sottsass

An Inverted Tower: Well of the Citadel of Turin, by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand

December 25, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

In his Dictionnaire des termes employés dans la construction ...: volume G.-Z, (1872) Pierre Chabat, wrote: 'Considered from the point of view of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: concentric, durand, inverted tower, taxonomy

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

Kon Wajiro’s Archaeology of Present Times

December 10, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Japanese architect, sociologist, and educator Kon Wajiro was living in Tokyo when the violent 1923 earthquake occurred. With his students, he visited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: drawings, sketches, taxonomy, Urban

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

The One-Room Apartment by Cornelius Meyer (1689)

November 12, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Cornelis Meijer (Cornelius Meyer) (1629-1701) was a Dutch hydraulics engineer that came to Rome in 1680 to assist in the design of the banks of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: housing, one-room apartment

An Immaterial Drawing in Space: Alberto Giacometti’s The Palace at 4 a.m. (1933)

October 22, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

A 1933 sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m. relates to "a period of six months passed in the presence of a woman who, concentrating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: scaffolding, sculpture, skeletons, stage, surrealism

Aurélien Débat, Horizon Lines (2014-15)

October 16, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

French illustrator Aurélien Débat has already been featured in Socks with his "Imaginary City of Tamponville". The work shown here (titled: Lignes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: drawing, lines, texture

Max Bill’s Exhibition pavilion of the City of Ulm at the National Exhibition of Baden/Württemberg – Stuttgart, Germany (1955)

October 15, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In 1955 the city of Ulm commissioned architect Max Bill, Rector of the Ulm University of Design, to plan and execute a pavilion for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: economy of means, Pavilion

Alvin Boyarsky, Chicago à la carte, The City as an Energy System (1968)

October 2, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This post introduces a series of heterogeneous articles on Chicago, the city and its architecture: sparse attempts to convey different looks at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: boyarsky, chicago, city, history, labor, postcards, Urbanism

Labyrinths of Unreal Buildings: Works by Tishk Barzanji

September 7, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Tishk Barzanji is an Iraqi artist currently based in London. In his work, he combines photography and digital production of images, mixing 3d modeling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Visual Atlas Tagged With: 3d, digital, pastel, surreal

Depicting Process through Forms: Works by Anton Stankowski (1906 – 1998)

September 3, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

German graphic designer and painter Anton Stankowski (1906 - 1998) worked on the possibility of describing actions and forces through abstract … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: abstraction, composition, graphic design

Imants Tillers: This attempting to be That (1980)

August 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Imants Tillers is an Australian artist, curator, and writer. Trained as an architect, he participated to Christo's wrapping-up of Little Bay in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Landscape, semantics, Trees

Houses, Landscapes and Mental Spaces by Jon Koko

July 23, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Jon Koko is an artist who currently lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. His square illustrations and paintings are carefully balanced scenes with mostly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny, Visual Atlas Tagged With: illustration, landscapes

Jeff Wall, Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’, (1993)

June 28, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

There's a fine line between fact and fiction, between a moment and a perfect representation of that moment. Melissa Denes, Picture Perfect, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: hokusai, photography, postmodernism, reference

Tim Mara’s Prints Narrative

June 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Despite his focus on ordinary scenes and everyday objects, Irish artist Tim Mara (1948-1997) always rejected the qualification of Pop artist and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Interior Landscapes, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: Interiors, printmaking

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