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On Continuous Space: Louis Kahn’s Olivetti-Underwood Factory

September 14, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

In 1966 Italian typewriters and related products company Olivetti asked architect Louis Kahn to design their factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, factory, modular

How to Make Architecture Disappear: Ice House I and II by Gianni Pettena (1971-1972)

September 11, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Italian artist Gianni Pettena conceived a series of works which might be considered on the brink between land art and architecture. Two of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: ice, landart, suburbs, USA

The Dining and Assembly Hall at Brunswick Primary School by J.Stirling and J.Gowan (1961-1962)

September 7, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: bricks, square

The Temporary Inhabitant (L’Habitant Temporaire) by Thomas Batzenschlager

August 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

"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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: Black and White, Interiors

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

Monuments for a Future Civilization: Paintings by Minoru Nomata

August 23, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: monuments, Paintings, towers

Wolfgang Laib’s Research of Forms

July 11, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: India, minimal art, photos, pictures

Ordinary Buildings, Reassembled by Oliver Michaels

June 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

English photographer Oliver Michaels creates images through the composition of different architectural elements as found in specific places. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Black and White, Collage, photography

“A Roman State of Landscape”. Exhibition and talk at Campo, Rome – June, 23rd 2016

June 23, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media, Territories Tagged With: atlas, exhibition, Rome

Imaginary City Landscapes by Georg Bohle

May 20, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: cities, drawings, pencil

“Ueno Planet for Exhibition” by Haruka Misawa

May 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

"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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: drawings, graphic design, map, posters

German Cities and Other Prints by Dieter Roth (1962-1970)

May 1, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: architecture erased, cities, screenprint

Infinite Sequence of Interior Space: John Soane’s Bank of England (1788-1833)

April 26, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: bank, gandy, Interiors, ruins, soane

Perspective Corrections, by Jan Dibbets (1967-1969)

April 25, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: land art, photography

Thierry Urbain’s Invented Ancient Worlds

April 24, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Since 1985, photographer Thierry Urbain conducts a relentless work of research on architecture, archaeology and landscape. Reinventing imaginary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: Ancient cities, Black and White, photographs

An Encounter with “Naked Space”: The Tanikawa House by Kazuo Shinohara

April 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Interior Landscapes, Territories Tagged With: House, interior landscape, Japan, structure

Ivan Leonidov’s Competition Proposal for the Town of Magnitogorsk (1930)

April 12, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Disurbanism, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: competition, linear city, planning, proposal, Urbanism

Max Thalmann’s “America in Woodcuts” (1925) and “The Cathedral” (1922)

April 2, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Black and White, printing, woodblocks

The “Compact City” of Atlanpole, Nantes by Hans Kollhoff (1988)

March 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

This competition entry for a "technopole", an urban centre for research and teaching for the development of high specialized industries, was submitted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: compact city, competition, megastructure

A Glimpse of Post-Metabolism: Two Houses by Toyokazu Watanabe

March 20, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Suguiyama House and Nakano House (Standard House 001) are two residential projects designed by Toyokazu Watanabe (b. 1938) between 1979 and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

Pirro Ligorio’s “Antiquae Urbis Romae Imago” (Image of the Ancient City of Rome), 1561

March 13, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: map

Travel Notes, Ettore Sottsass, Jr. (in: Terrazzo n°1, 1988)

March 1, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

This short, poetic article was originally published in the legendary magazine Terrazzo edited by Barbara Radice, in the very first number in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: House, houses, India, sottsass

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