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