The Dining and Assembly Hall at Brunswick Primary School is a project by James Stirling and James Gowan. Completed in 1962, it is composed of a single … [Read more...]
The Temporary Inhabitant (L’Habitant Temporaire) by Thomas Batzenschlager
"L’Habitant Temporaire" is a project by Thomas Batzenschlager, a French architect living and working in Santiago (Chile), which takes the form of an … [Read more...]
Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka
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...]
Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]
Manufacturing Nature: “Trees by Man” by Michael Amery
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...]
Monuments for a Future Civilization: Paintings by Minoru Nomata
Japanese artist Minoru Nomata graduated from the Design Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and started working as a painter at the end of the … [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...]
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...]
“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...]
Imaginary City Landscapes by Georg Bohle
The imaginary city landscapes of Dutch artist Georg Bohle are metaphors representing the growth logic of a city and exacerbating the city's own image. … [Read more...]
“Ueno Planet for Exhibition” by Haruka Misawa
"Ueno Planet for Exhibition" is a collection of posters and brochures by Japanese designer Haruka Misawa and her office, the Misawa Design Institute. … [Read more...]
German Cities and Other Prints by Dieter Roth (1962-1970)
German-born artist Dieter Roth (1930-1998) moved to Switzerland in 1943 at the age of 13, seeking asylum during World War II. As he began to work as … [Read more...]
Infinite Sequence of Interior Space: John Soane’s Bank of England (1788-1833)
From 1788 to 1833, Sir John Soane was the architect and surveyor of the Bank of England, his first major commission and the biggest work he had until … [Read more...]
Perspective Corrections, by Jan Dibbets (1967-1969)
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...]
Thierry Urbain’s Invented Ancient Worlds
Since 1985, photographer Thierry Urbain conducts a relentless work of research on architecture, archaeology and landscape. Reinventing imaginary … [Read more...]
An Encounter with “Naked Space”: The Tanikawa House by Kazuo Shinohara
The second house Kazuo Shinohara designed for Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, lies in the mountains in Nagano prefecture. Built in 1974, this summer … [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...]
Pao: Dwellings For the Tokyo Nomad Woman by Toyo Ito (1985 and 1989)
Pao I and Pao II (1985 and 1989) are two projects by Toyo Ito based on a scenario where most of the domestic functions are dissolved in the metropolis … [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...]
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