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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
PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda), (Experimental Housing Project), was a strategic low-cost project for experimental mass housing in Peru, conceived to be adaptable over time. In 1966, the Peruvian government and the United Nations invited British architect Peter Land to produce a strategy followed by a competition brief for housing schemes which could provide an … Read More
Jazz Improvisation is a series of 4 books edited by pianist, composer, lecturer, and critic John Mehegan between 1959 and 1965. Today considered classic of jazz instructional books, the four volumes feature anthologies of scores from jazz standards and forewords by renowned Jazz musicians and present a very simple yet stunning graphic design. According to … Read More
The Greek city of Megalopolis was founded between 371 and 368 BC in order to provide a counterweight to the power of Sparta and shortly belonged to the Arcadian League until 362 BC. The city’s most important landmarks include two buildings related one with the other (probably planned together, or constructed as complementary buildings): a theatre … Read More
In 1952, Italian architect Luigi Moretti wrote an editorial for the 7th issue of the Italian magazine Spazio, (which he directed and designed), titled “Structures and sequences of spaces”. In his article, Moretti proposed a spatial reading of several architectural works (from Villa Adriana to Guarino Guarini’s Church of San Filippo Neri) conducted with the … Read More
Urbain Dubois (1818-1901) was a French chef, an innovator of the art of the cuisine and a prolific author. During his life, he authored a series of book on the cookery containing descriptions and recipes and featuring a very rich apparatus of illustrated plates depicting types of food, utensils, stoves, kitchenware, etc. In this way, … Read More
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 … Read More
Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as his thesis project at the VKhUTEMAS, the art and technical School of Moscow, with Alexander Vesnin as his tutor. The Institute is made of a series of individualized shapes embodied by clear geometrical … Read More
Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small pieces of an intimate universe. The greenhouse is one of her recurring subjects and is usually drawn with an almost childish trait. In Frois’ works, the buildings are abstract entities traced with thin white lines on … Read More
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