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The urban plan for the district of Pendrecht, in the south of Rotterdam, is one of the most representative projects of the urban theories developed in Europe in the post-war period. It was part of a series of studies for the expansion of Rotterdam through polders, artificial sectors of land gained … Read More
Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His works are formally revolutionary, but always for the sake of content: the representation of the movement, the solutions in the board’s layouts, the cancellation of the cartoon scanning for the “table-sequence”, … Read More
After the death of her parents, wealthy Josabeth Sjöberg (1812-1882), formerly daughter of a clerk in a Swedish government department, became poor and was obliged to work as a governess and music teacher in high bourgeois homes in 19th Century Stockholm. As a technically unsophisticated, yet meticulous watercolourist, Mademoiselle Sjöberg used her free time to carefully portray the everyday life of the … Read More
Herbert Bayer was a prolific graphic designer and typography designer who also worked as a sculptor and a painter and who produced architectural projects mostly inspired by his research in graphic design. In 1925, he became a teacher at the Bauhaus after having been a student under Kandinsky. In 1946 he moved to Aspen in … Read More
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German geographer, explorer and naturalist who traveled extensively to Latin America and put the basis for a modern scientific description of the world. His research was published in a large series of volumes over 21 years. Fosterer of a holistic vision of the universe, Von Humboldt unified diverse branches … Read More
In Principles of Three-Dimensional Design, 1976, (an obvious companion to Principles of Two-Dimensional Design), Wucius Wong offers a thorough explanation of three-dimensional objects. An educational book aimed at designer, the work demonstrates how simple plan and construct are able to explain complex configurations. The book features amazing photographs of models and drawings. … Read More
A relevant figure in the Rationalist movement, Italian-Swiss architect Alberto Sartoris (1901-1998) represented most of his projects in black and white or colorful axonometric projections. This choice of a precise representation technique is connected to his will to emphasize a rigorous geometrical control in the construction of a project. At the same time, axonometric projections … Read More
This small kindergarten, made by only two classrooms, is located on the outskirts of Piacenza in Italy and was designed by Giuseppe Vaccaro starting in 1953 and finally built in 1961. The kindergarten is a part of the INA-casa neighborhood «Unità Galleana». The elements which compose the project are extremely simple while subtly crafted and … Read More
In “Der Fels ist mein Haus = La rocher est ma demeure = The rock is my home”, Werner Blaser analyses Swiss vernacular stone architecture. The wonderfully illustrated book contains a number of black and white photographs that have been originally collected by the editors at Subtilitas. As stated in Gaudenz Risch’s review, in Blaser survey, “Matter, structure … Read More
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