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The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)

September 6, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: pixelated, rooms, section, videogame

The Theatre as Machine: Joseph Furttenbach Stage Design

March 8, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Joseph Furttenbach (1591 – 1667) was a German architect, engineer and architecture theorist who lived in Italy from 1610 to 1620. During his stay … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: drawing, set design, tretise

Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)

February 23, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: axonometric projection, Landscape, photography, Urban

Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)

January 26, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Media, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: ai, algorithm, maps, new media

Mary Ellen Solt, Moonshot Sonnet (1964)

December 15, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Moonshot Sonnet is a concrete poem composed in 1964 by poet Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007). The work is a poem created reformatting diagrammatic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Representation: Graphic Scores, Technology, Territories Tagged With: concrete poetry, moon, Nasa, poem, sonnet, territories

Gareth Damian Martin, Postcards from The Continuous City, 2018

October 13, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Continuous City is an in-progress photographic series by Gareth Damian Martin. The British artist, game designer and writer explores video game … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Interior Landscapes, Media, Technology, Territories, Topics Tagged With: photography, videogame

The Shape of Knowledge: The Mundaneum by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine

May 5, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Mankind is at a turning point in its history. The mass of data acquired is astounding. We need new instruments to simplify it, to condense it, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: data, information, inner space, knowledge, network

(Review) Éric Alonzo, The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories (2018)

March 19, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

L’architecture de la voie. Histoire et Théories (“The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories”) is the bold title of a French volume that Éric … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: alonzo, Architecture, eavt marne-la-vallée, road, theory

The Architecture of Cooking. Illustrations from: Urbain Dubois, La Cuisine Artistique, 1872

December 2, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Urbain Dubois (1818-1901) was a French chef, an innovator of the art of the cuisine and a prolific author. During his life, he authored a series of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: cuisine, kitchen, kitchenware

The Origins of The Plan: Forma Urbis Romae (between 203 and 211 CE)

November 4, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Forma Urbis Romae or Forma Urbis Severiana was a very large map of the imperial city of Rome (18 m long by 13 m high) carved on 151 marble slabs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: campo marzio, canina, carettoni, forma urbis romae, piranesi, stanford

The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Representation: Axonometric projection, Representation: Models, Technology Tagged With: constructivism, Lenin, leonidov, Soviet Architecture, Technology

The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)

September 27, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: communication, exhibition, museum, networks, phone

A Portrait of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos (1845-62)

April 17, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German geographer, explorer and naturalist who traveled extensively to Latin America and put the basis for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: atlas, cosmos, current, nature, universe, world

Early Digital, Unintentional Collages: Fireflies by William Larson

February 23, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

William Larson is an American photographer who continuously experimented with different media in order to produce meaningful works and question the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: Collage, concrete poetry, digital, fax, media

“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” by Ben Tolman

January 22, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

"Weltschmerz" and "Made in Sarajevo" are two series of ink drawings by Washington DC-based artist Ben Tolman. The first one is a collection made in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Black and White, cities, drawings, ink

Alison and Peter Smithsons’ Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the “Solar pavilion”), 1959-1962

January 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

The Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the Solar pavilion) was Alison and Peter Smithsons’ weekend home in Wiltshire in the countryside in South-West … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: countryside, House, low-cost, Pavilion

National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1967)

November 17, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

The (unbuilt) competition project for the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, was a sort of religious building, or rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: information age, venturi

Boats of the Pearl River (1800-1820)

November 13, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

This series of paintings dates back to 1800-1820 and depicts a series of different types of boats that use to cross the Pearl River in Guangzhou, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: boat, China, pearl river

Zones Devoid of Time: Ballard’s Penguin Covers, by David Pelham

September 16, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology, Territories Tagged With: books, covers, painting, science fiction

Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka

August 27, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: ballpoint pen, drawings, infrastructures, Japan, stations, tokyo

Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)

August 26, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: charts, lunar, mapping, maps, moon, topography

Manufacturing Nature: “Trees by Man” by Michael Amery

August 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: charcoal, industry, Landscape, Trees

A Monument to Endless Space: Manifold Garden by William Chyr

July 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

William Chyr is currently designing and developing an independent game set in a parallel universe where the physical laws are completely differents … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Game, gif, labyrinth, sequence, videogame

3 Projects for Schools by Carlo Chiappi (1967-1969)

July 9, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: school, technomorphic

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