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...]
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...]
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...]
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