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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 … Read More
“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home users through networked communication devices such as the telephone, the fax, and computer networking, this latter being obviously very limited at the time. The show, organized by the Project InterCommunication … Read More
In his magnum opus on light, projections, and astronomy, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae (“the Great Art of Light and Shadows,” polymath Jesuit scholar and inventor Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) describes several spaces of his invention lying between an optical device and an architectural interior through a series of engravings. One among them is a camera obscura (dark room) whose … Read More
We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture magazine Soiled. Since we love her work, we’ll publish here one of her personal projects, titled 100 Houses. A divertissement about spatial concepts, 100 Houses was a daily endeavor manifested on the artist’s tumblr irenagajic.tumblr.com/ I started this project … Read More
Georg Andreas Böckler, a German architect and engineer, wrote the books Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661) and Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664). Mostly dedicated to hydraulics for fountains, water-jets and garden fountains, Architectura Curiosa Nova also includes designs for grottoes and elaborated geometries for gardens (based upon triangles, squares, repetitive patterns, labyrinthine paths). It is not clear whether the gardens were invented or … Read More
Written between 1519 and 1520, Dell’arte della guerra (The Art of War) was the only historical-political essay published by Niccolò Machiavelli during his lifetime, but it was arguably the lesser known compared to The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. In seven books, the author treats themes of military theory and strategy (based on training, discipline, and … 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
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