Between 1967 and 1969, Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets created a series of works, consisting of photographs of walls, floors and lawns, titled … [Read more...]
Ivan Leonidov’s Competition Proposal for the Town of Magnitogorsk (1930)
In 1930, the Russian architects group OSA, with Ivan Leonidov as team leader, took part in the competition of the urban design of the chemical and … [Read more...]
Max Thalmann’s “America in Woodcuts” (1925) and “The Cathedral” (1922)
German Max Thalmann (1890-1944) was a figurative artist who produced black and white woodblock prints for a short period of time between the two World … [Read more...]
The “Compact City” of Atlanpole, Nantes by Hans Kollhoff (1988)
This competition entry for a "technopole", an urban centre for research and teaching for the development of high specialized industries, was submitted … [Read more...]
A Glimpse of Post-Metabolism: Two Houses by Toyokazu Watanabe
Suguiyama House and Nakano House (Standard House 001) are two residential projects designed by Toyokazu Watanabe (b. 1938) between 1979 and the … [Read more...]
Pirro Ligorio’s “Antiquae Urbis Romae Imago” (Image of the Ancient City of Rome), 1561
In 1551, Pirro Ligorio produced an engraving depicting a reconstruction of ancient Rome; this inventive map was printed by Jacopo Rossi in 1561. Pirro … [Read more...]
Travel Notes, Ettore Sottsass, Jr. (in: Terrazzo n°1, 1988)
This short, poetic article was originally published in the legendary magazine Terrazzo edited by Barbara Radice, in the very first number in … [Read more...]
Constructing a False Reality: Chris Engman’s Photographs
Chris Engman is a photographer who creates installations and constructions in the landscape and inside preexisting architecture and then captures them … [Read more...]
Underground New York Speculation: “Lower East Side Quarry” by Rebecca Fode (2012)
"Lower East Side Quarry" by Rebecca Fode (at the time of the project, a student of Unit 11 at the Bartlett School of Architecture—, taught by Mark … [Read more...]
A Growing, Incremental Place – Incremental Time: “Victims”, a Project by John Hejduk (1984)
"Victims" is the title of John Hejduk's entry for the 1984 Prinz-Albert-Palais competition in Berlin for the construction of a memorial park. The site … [Read more...]
The Free University of Berlin (Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm – 1963)
The international competition for the new campus of the philological institute in Berlin was won by architects Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm … [Read more...]
Museum of Lost Volumes by NEMESTUDIO (2015)
Mete Sonmez and Neyran Turan (NEMESTUDIO) are architects and teachers whose practice focuses on the relationship between geography and design "to … [Read more...]
A Land-Art of Imagination: Drawings by František Lesák
František Lesák is a Czech artist who moved to Vienna in 1964. In the series Berglandschaft (Mountain Landscape, 1972-1973), today part of the … [Read more...]
The Round City of Baghdad
The first nucleus of the city of Baghdad was the "Round City" (Madinat al-Salam) founded by the Abbasid caliph al- Mansur in 762 AD and completed in … [Read more...]
The Beauty of Indeterminacy. Graphic Scores from “Treatise” by Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981) was a British music composer, who worked as an assistant for Karlheinz Stockhausen for three years. Apparently, after … [Read more...]
The Artic City. A project by Frei Otto and Kenzo Tange
In 1971, German architect Frei Otto presented the project for a city of 40.000 inhabitants to be built in the Artic circle beneath a pneumatic dome of … [Read more...]
Relief– Architecturer l’Horizon (an exhibition at the Frac Center in Orléans)
"Relief– Architecturer l’horizon" is an exhibition which took place at "Le Turbulences", the Orléans Frac centre between 10/04/2015 and 30/08/2015. … [Read more...]
Landscape Pictograms by Otl Aicher
Among several seminal works in his career, German graphic designer Otl Aicher designed a series of posters to promote the Allgäu region in Germany, … [Read more...]
The New Landscape in Art and Science by György Kepes
The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo … [Read more...]
The Etruscan Tumuli: Underground Cities for the Dead
Many of the Etruscan tombs in Italy are housed in round burial mounds (tumuli) built in earth and stones with several rock-carved … [Read more...]
Ultimate Disaster and Other Drawings by Isabel Seliger
Isabel Seliger is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her works range from colourful illustrations to short comics, to black and white … [Read more...]
The “Haus der Freundschaft” (House of Friendship): a Megaform in Istanbul by Hans Poelzig (1916)
In 1916 an invited architectural competition was held in order to decide the scheme of a building which should have celebrated the alliance … [Read more...]
The Battle of Manhattan: Reliving the 1776 Revolution in the City of Today
In 1975 New York Magazine (Oct 20. 1975) published an article by Dorothy Seiberling summarizing, by means of a hypothetical journal, the crucial … [Read more...]
Earliest Land-Art: Herbert Bayer and Fritz Benedict’s Green Mound and Marble Garden (1954-1955)
''I believe that the artist must achieve creative control over the whole of his environment.''- Herbert Bayer : New York Times, October 21, … [Read more...]
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