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...]
A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii
The city of Timgad, in today's Algeria, was founded as a military settlement by Emperor Trajan around AD 100 and its original scope was to be a … [Read more...]
Accidental Monuments by Brion Nuda Rosch
Brion Nuda Rosch is a multimedia American artist and curator currently living in San Francisco. His collages superimpose small pieces of paper of a … [Read more...]
Herbert Bayer’s Small Architectural Projects (1924)
Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural … [Read more...]
Forgotten Corners, by Andrew G. Fisher
Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white … [Read more...]
A Portrait of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos (1845-62)
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...]
Matter, Structure and Form of Life: Der Fels ist mein Haus, by Werner Blaser (1976)
In “Der Fels ist mein Haus = La rocher est ma demeure = The rock is my home", Werner Blaser analyses Swiss vernacular stone architecture. The … [Read more...]
Hashimoto Okiie’s Views of Ancient Castles and Gardens / 1
Hashimoto Okiie ( 1899- 1993) was a Japanese woodcut artist. After working as a teacher and spare-time artist, he devoted himself completely to the … [Read more...]
“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” by Ben Tolman
"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...]
Cut-out Reality Pieces by Mike Lee
Mike Lee is a Californian born, New York-based digital and illustration artist. He has been working in the commercial illustration industry, but he … [Read more...]
Portraying Stillness: Alex Lowery’s Paintings.
Alex Lowery is a British painter who depicts landscapes composed of few elements: houses, skies, surfaces which become fields, streets, beaches or … [Read more...]
Two Rooms Filled with Dirt: The New York Earth Room by Walter De Maria and the House in the Mud by Santiago Sierra
The New York Earth Room is an interior land-art installation by artist Walter de Maria. Since 1977, 197 cubic meters of earth fill a room on the … [Read more...]
Monumental, Yet So Fragile: Arctic Landscapes by Emma Stibbon
German-born artist Emma Stibbon did her studies in England, where she currently works. Her production is mostly composed of monochrome drawings on … [Read more...]
Ken Price’s Heat Wave (1995)
Kenneth Price (1935-2012) was an American sculptor and printmaker, known for abstract shapes in clay. After he moved to Los Angeles in the late … [Read more...]
Visualizing Land: Works by Matthew Rangel
Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints … [Read more...]
Don’t Be Afraid of Bad Dreams: Rik Smits’ Cities and Landscapes
Rik Smits is a Dutch artist who works with several media. His large pencil drawings depict cities and landscapes sceneries, sometimes with a realistic … [Read more...]
Rinat Voligamsi’s Surreal Glimpses of Russia
Rinat Voligamsi is a Russian painter who retrieves vintage images of the Russian countryside and of military life and alters them in a surrealist … [Read more...]
Jun Kamaori’s Isolated People in the Landscape
Jun Kumaori is a Japanese illustrator based in Kyoto. Her works place a solitary character with manga-like features, in the middle of a very detailed … [Read more...]
The City in the Space by Ricardo Bofill and Taller de Arquitectura (1970)
In 1970, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill and his Taller de Arquitectura worked on a huge housing complex called La Ciudad en el Espacio (The City in … [Read more...]
Understanding the Grid /1: Michel Ecochard’s Planning and Building Framework in Casablanca
French architect Michel Ecochard, also trained as an archeologist, was the director of the Morocco Department of Urban Planning from 1946 to 1952 … [Read more...]
Francisco Mujica : From the Pyramid to the Skyscraper.
During his tenure at the University of Mexico City, Mexican architect and historian Francisco Mujica, born in 1899, undertook archeological research … [Read more...]
“Everything important I have done can be fit into a small suitcase” *. Boîte-en-Valise by Marcel Duchamp (1936-1940)
One year before WWII broke out, Marcel Duchamp packed the entirety of his works in the smallest possible space: a commercial traveler suitcase. … [Read more...]
Communal Living Around a Void: The Shabonos, Dwellings of the Yanomami Tribes
The shabonos (or yanos) are the traditional communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They are circular … [Read more...]
Boats of the Pearl River (1800-1820)
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...]
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