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The Forma Urbis Romae or Forma Urbis Severiana was a very large map of the imperial city of Rome (18 m long by 13 m high) carved on 151 marble slabs arranged in 11 rows, made under the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, (between 203 and 211 CE). The 235 sqm map hung on a wall of an aula of the … Read More
Jesùs Perea is a Spanish visual artist with a background in graphic design and illustration and extensive production of abstract prints and frequent excursions in the figurative realm. His work is an exploration of different compositions ranging from intersecting and rotating geometric forms to colorful quasi-architectural structures. A parallel research is made in graphic techniques: … Read More
Zsofia Schweger is a Hungarian artist who currently lives and works in London. Her still life paintings of empty interior spaces talk subtly about the people who inhabited them and then left them behind. In her series Sandorfalva, Hungary (2015-17), the subject is inspired by Schweger’s own experience as a Hungarian living elsewhere and coming back to her hometown, … Read More
In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing”, a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development Corporation for the planning of a neighborhood on the East River in front of Manhattan. Ungers’ entry is a downsized and simplified Manhattan, adapted to the proportions of Roosevelt Island and with a … Read More
Max Guther is a German illustrator who constructs imaginary worlds through axonometric projections. His images usually depict details from urban views or building corners. While appearing realistic at a first glance, they suddenly reveal their digital fabrication, mostly executed through 3D and Photoshop and a palette of pastel colors. The angles of view and the … Read More
The project for the extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery was an unbuilt project developed by Polish architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen, with Lech Tomaszewski and Stanisław Zamecznik, in 1958 and presented one year later at the Otterlo CIAM, (the last one before the Team X took over). The project is a cubic volume connected … Read More
Belgrade-based Irena Gajic clearly reveals her architectural background in her illustrations. Most of her works, commissioned by magazines and by exhibitions, rely on oblique projections and feature colorful interiors, rooms, and complex buildings, ranging from seemingly archaic structures to modern industrial plants. The speculative series Nine Rooms to Die In was commissioned to Irena by … Read More
I had the pleasure of meeting Norwegian architect Espen Vatn in Chicago at his lecture at the UIC School of Architecture in 2018. Among the many brilliants projects he showed in this occasion, this one realized with Andrea Pinochet, James Hamilton, Richard Øiestad and Børre Mølstad, simply stood out. The 12 plans and models of In … Read More
The Eastern Workers village at Amarna in Egypt (c. 1349-1332 BCE) was a walled settlement located in the North-East side of the city and intended for the artisans who worked on the rock-cut tombs and temples not far away. Built during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten for a population of about 300 people, it shows … Read More
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