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...]
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...]
Fireworks at Parc de la Villette, Paris, by Bernard Tschumi, 1992
In 1974, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi developed the theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. Fostering a fierce reaction against the … [Read more...]
John Hejduk’s Diamond House A (1963-1967)
In 1962 architect and educator John Hejduk (1929-2000) started a six-year investigation on the architectural implications of the "diamond … [Read more...]
Understanding How Something is Created: the Drawing Process of Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Belgian architectural office "Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu" (A DVVT) uses to produce a wide range of architectural drawings that cannot be … [Read more...]
Ordinary Buildings, Reassembled by Oliver Michaels
English photographer Oliver Michaels creates images through the composition of different architectural elements as found in specific places. The … [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...]
The Dominican Motherhouse by Louis Kahn (1965-1968)
The Dominican Motherhouse in Media, Pennsylvania, is an unbuilt project on which architectLouis Kahn worked from 1965 to 1968. The place of worship … [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...]
A “Palladian” Villa in Sweden: The Norrköping House by Sverre Fehn (1963-64)
The Norrköping Villa was designed by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn in 1963-64 as a model architecture for an ideal family of four. The 150 m2 house … [Read more...]
“A Given Moment of a Fleeting Reality”: Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor in Oliveira de Azeméis by Álvaro Siza Vieira (1971-1974)
At the start of the seventies, Porto-born architect Álvaro Siza Vieira completed a series of small-scale projects in the north of Portugal, close to … [Read more...]
Various Forms of Architecture (1636), A Selection of Etchings
Joanne Vredemanni Vriesio, also known as Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527–c.1607) was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter and engineer. He extensively … [Read more...]
Anatomy of The Line: Drawings by Esjieun Kim
Korean artist and architect Esjieun Kim is interested in the relationship between drawing, movement, and space. The medium which operates the … [Read more...]
A Prototypal House at the Bauhaus: The “Haus am Horn” by Georg Muche (1923)
The "Haus am Horn" is an experimental building erected and furnished as a part of the Weimar Bauhaus exhibition in the early summer of 1923 which had … [Read more...]
A Selection of Paul Rudolph’s Perspective Sections
As stated in Adrian Forty's "Concrete and Culture" (a very recommended read), architect Paul Rudolph's reliance on pen-and-ink rendering came from … [Read more...]
An Introduction to Rudolf Olgiati’s Vocabulary
Swiss architect Rudolf Olgiati (1910-1995) constructed most of his buildings in the region of Grisons in Switzerland. Most of his works were family … [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...]
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