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Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect, engineer and artist. Starting at seventeen years old and throughout his whole life, he developed a series of ink drawings on tracing paper which would follow very specific constraints. Each drawing was traced with a single line which would never intersect … 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
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
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