Alexandre Ciancio is a French architect and graphic designer, who investigates the relationship between architecture, image and metaphor. In 2013 … [Read more...]
“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen
"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]
Piero Portaluppi’s Wagristoratore (1929-30)
The Wagristoratore, opened in 1930, is a project by Milan-born architect Piero Portaluppi. Located in Passo di San Girolamo at a height of 2318 meters … [Read more...]
Zones Devoid of Time: Ballard’s Penguin Covers, by David Pelham
David Pelham was an English artist and graphic designer who came to meet author J. G. Ballard through their mutual friend, pop artist Eduardo … [Read more...]
Leonie Bos’ Ideal Abode
Leonie Bos is a Dutch illustrator who reproduces a traditional printmaking effect through digital techniques. Many of her works include architectural … [Read more...]
Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Tomoyuki Tanaka is a Japanese architect who creates mesmerizing x-ray drawings of Tokyo's major stations. These are precise ballpoint pen descriptions … [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...]
Manufacturing Nature: “Trees by Man” by Michael Amery
Michael Amery is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa with a graphic design background. His series of drawings in charcoal and India ink called … [Read more...]
Monuments for a Future Civilization: Paintings by Minoru Nomata
Japanese artist Minoru Nomata graduated from the Design Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and started working as a painter at the end of the … [Read more...]
Brutal Domesticity: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens (1974)
The residence in Sint-Martens-Latem near Ghent was designed by Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens for the teacher Albert Van Wassenhove in 1974. The … [Read more...]
A Visual Compendium of the Real World: Illustrations by Takeda Yoshifumi
Takeda Yoshifumi is a Japanese illustrator and painter currently base in Tokyo. His work consists mostly of small, detailed illustrations with a … [Read more...]
“Make Mountains” by Mark Lazenby
Mark Lazenby is a collage artist and graphic designer with a large and multifaceted production. For his series "Make mountains" the silhouette of a … [Read more...]
“The most vivid, built example of Venturi’s contradiction in architecture”: Ni-Ban-Kahn by Minoru Takeyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo (1970)
In 1970 Japanese architect Minoru Takeyama designed a building in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, simply called the Ni-Ban-Kahn (Building Number Two), while his … [Read more...]
The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)
Built in Tokyo in 1966, the Tower house by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma is developed around a staircase which distributes its six levels. The … [Read more...]
A Monument to Endless Space: Manifold Garden by William Chyr
William Chyr is currently designing and developing an independent game set in a parallel universe where the physical laws are completely differents … [Read more...]
Illustrating through Parallel Lines: Works by Owen D. Pomery
Owen D. Pomery has an educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for … [Read more...]
Giulio Paolini’s Set Design for Teorema (1999)
On the occasion of the staging of the ballet Teorema in 1999, (produced by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino from an adaptation of the novel and film … [Read more...]
“Habitat and the City”: Competition Entry by Neutelings, Wall, De Geyter and Roodbeen (1990)
In 1990 the "Competition Habitatge i Ciutat" (Housing and City) was promoted by the review Quaderns of Barcelona. The entry by W.J. Neutelings, A. … [Read more...]
Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier (1977)
Alvin Lucier (1931, -) is a major American composer. He pioneered areas of sound art such as using brain waves in live performances, tracking … [Read more...]
Wolfgang Laib’s Research of Forms
Wolfgang Laib is a German artist who explores a set of minimal forms through installations that are mostly realized using natural elements like … [Read more...]
3 Projects for Schools by Carlo Chiappi (1967-1969)
Architect Carlo Chiappi (1939-2001) was an important figure in Florence during the years that led to the formation of the avant-garde generation … [Read more...]
The Limits of Rationality: Impossibly Thin Table by Junya Ishigami (2006)
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami was able to stress the potential of architectural thinking at every scale, since its very first solo project, an … [Read more...]
Disintegrating Digital Images: Laura Charlton’s Prints
Laura Charlton is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with silkscreen prints and monoprints The abstraction in her print works is obtained by … [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...]
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