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...]
The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)
As a former British Army Captain converted to scholar of early Muslim architecture, K. A. C. Creswell coined the expression "The even covering of the … [Read more...]
Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems
Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, … [Read more...]
Project for a History of Architecture, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1721)
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723) was an important Austrian Baroque architect as well as a sculptor and an architectural historian and … [Read more...]
City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos, by Manuel Maples Arce
Here is my poem brutal and manifold of the new city, Oh city all tense with cables and exertions resonant with motors and wings. Urbe … [Read more...]
The Pleasures of Suburban Life: Las Terrenas Resort (Elia Zenghelis – Eleni Gigantes, 1989)
The 1989 competition entry for a resort in Santo Domingo, was for Elia Zenghelis (teacher, co-founder and former partner of OMA) and Eleni Gigantes … [Read more...]
Steven Holl’s Bridge of Houses (1979-1982)
Throughout history bridges have been a focus of legends of every civilization. Esthetes, philosophers and poets have used the bridge as a transcendent … [Read more...]
L. S. Lowry: the Project of the Working Class Environment
In 1909 English painter L. S. Lowry moved to the industrial town of Pendlebury, the environment which would later inspire him for several years. Row … [Read more...]
“Light, Time, Silence” by Keisuke Yamamoto
Keisuke Yamamoto (1961, -) is a Japanese print artist who worked on a series of interesting lithographies called “Light, Time, Silence”, which include … [Read more...]
“The house sees itself reflected in the office”: Abalos & Herreros’ Housing & City, Barcelona (1988)
Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros established their well known architecture office in Madrid in 1984 and kept working together until they parted ways in … [Read more...]
Civilization and its Discontents According to Ben Tolman
The hyper-detailed ink-on-paper drawings by Ben Tolman depict the built environment and the effects it has on the people who inhabit it. Cities … [Read more...]
Tokyo-X: an “Anti-Compositive and Anti-Typological” Project by Andrea Branzi
Tokyo City X (1990) is a meta-project, the design of a theoretical city based on a single huge building of 800.000 sqm in the Tokyo bay. Commissioned … [Read more...]
“Agricultural City” by Kisho Kurokawa (1960)
Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa survived the Ise Bay Typhoon in 1959 and his experience inspired the design for an "Agricultural City" … [Read more...]
“Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Zhang Zeduan (12th Century) and an 18th Century Remake
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a Chinese artwork attributed to the Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and painted over a … [Read more...]
MAP Office: Hong Kong Is Land (2014)
MAP Office, a duo of artists and architects formed in 1996 by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix (already on Socks with their "Unreal Estates of … [Read more...]
Madelon Vriesendorp’s Manhattan Project
«These works weren't created to commission!», (Vriesendorp) comments smiling, almost hesitantly in Basel. They «were created as the result of an … [Read more...]
The Map as an Artistic Territory: Relief Shading Works and Studies by Eduard Imhof
Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986) was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, from 1925 to 1965. His studies on … [Read more...]
Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)
Now that the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale finally came to an end, we think it is the right time to publish this interesting short essay by … [Read more...]
Waiting Land: Ideal Homes / Interiors / Inventory (Karen Lohrmann & Stefano de Martino 2001-2013)
Waiting Land is an art and landscape project devised by Lorma Marti , the collaborative practice of Stefano de Martino and Karen Lohrmann. The … [Read more...]
Thomas Barbey’s Rotring Cliffs Drawings (2014)
Our dear friend artist and gardener Thomas Barbey, based in Villerville, Normandy (France) and not to be confused to his Switzerland namesake -and … [Read more...]
Paul Kirchner’s The Bus (1978)
Paul Kirchner's comic strip 'The Bus' was published in 1978 and appeared regularly on Heavy Metal Magazine for seven years. In every strip the … [Read more...]
Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973)
Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. … [Read more...]
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