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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

“Its unfinished decoration in danger of slipping beneath the eye to hurtle wildly across the crumbling walls.” The Cage, a Visual-Novel, by Martin Vaughn-James (1975)

July 12, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: comic, graphic novel

Patterns from the World Underneath: The Ecological Relations of Roots by John Ernest Weaver (1919)

June 21, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The ecological relations of roots (1919) is a book by John Ernest Weaver (1884 – 1966),  an American biologist and prairie ecologist. During his life, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Fields, Territories Tagged With: botany, plants, roots, scientific drawings

The Architecture of the Workspace: Axonometric Drawings by Peter Judson

April 10, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Peter Judson is a British designer and illustrator. (Already featured, on Socks).  For his project "Hyundai card", commissioned by design studio … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: axonometrics, Black and White, illustration, office

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

A Visual Thinking Strategy: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors (1982)

February 16, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) accompanied his life-long architectural and theoretical production with a parallel work on found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: analogy, essay, maps, metaphor, visual thinking

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

Color Schemes from Geology. A Work by Uibelakers (1781)

January 16, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Franz Uibelakers was a German mineralogist. In his work, “System des Karlsbader Sinters” (1781) he presented sections of stalactites and stalagmites … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories

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 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

Monumental, Yet So Fragile: Arctic Landscapes by Emma Stibbon

October 14, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, Landscape, nature, romantic

A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).

June 24, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing", a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: analogy, grid, Urban

Imaginary Places for Mundane Activities: Works by Max Guther

June 19, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Max Guther is a German illustrator who constructs imaginary worlds through axonometric projections. His images usually depict details from urban views … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: axonometrics, realism, videogame

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

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

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

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

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

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

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