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Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing relationships between perception, representation and reality. For her series HC, Hortus Conclusus, she delved into the subject of “Enclosed gardens,” a … Read More
Rabanus Maurus was a Benedictine monk, archbishop of Mainz, writer and poet who lived between c.780 and 856. A very sophisticated intellectual, he was considered one of the most important teachers and encyclopedists of the Carolingian age. Among his body of work, (treatises, commentaries of the Bible, military texts, etc.), he wrote De laudibus sanctae … Read More
Mankind is at a turning point in its history. The mass of data acquired is astounding. We need new instruments to simplify it, to condense it, or intelligence will never be able to overcome the difficulties imposed upon it or achieve the progress that it foresees and to which it aspires. Paul Otlet, Treaties on … Read More
We usually don’t accept text contributions for SOCKS, but we made an exception for this article on the Charterhouse in Padua, Italy featuring original photos and submitted by the two young Italian architects and engineers Marco Lumini and Alberto Michielotto. We feel that the subject (which we are very interested in) and the writing posture, … Read More
The Aurelian walls have marked the line of defense of Rome for 16 centuries, from their construction (270 to 275 AD), until September 20, 1870, when the kingdom of Italy conquered the city of Rome by breaching the sector of Porta Pia. About one-sixth of the walls integrated existing structures, like the Cestius’s Pyramid, the … Read More
L’architecture de la voie. Histoire et Théories (“The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories”) is the bold title of a French volume that Éric Alonzo, PhD, teacher at the School of Architecture of Marne-la-Vallée (Paris), and co-founder, with Sebastien Marot, of Marnes, documents d’architecture, published in 2018 for the Editions Parenthèses in Marseille, France. … Read More
Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480-1544) was an Italian Renaissance polymath. His most famous project, started in ca.1519 and carried on until his death, was “The Theatre of Memory,” an ideal architectural structure destined to “tener collocati e a ministrar tutti gli umani concetti, tutte le cose che sono in tutto il mondo” (“locate and administer all … Read More
Starting in 1814, when he was already 55, Japanese artist Hokusai Katsushika published over 4000 small drawings on extremely varied subjects. The 15 volumes, each one including sixty leaflets, are called “Hokusai’s Manga” The term “manga” doesn’t refer to the kind of narrative format we all know today, but to the original meaning of the … Read More
David Lemm is a visual artist and designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His production ranges widely from illustrations to collages, multi-media projects, prints, and installations, but all of his works share a consistent interest for synthesis and abstraction. A recurring theme in Lemm’s research is the translation of elements of the landscape, natural or urban, … Read More
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