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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 … Read More
This post introduces a series of heterogeneous articles on Chicago, the city and its architecture: sparse attempts to convey different looks at the city from within and outside the boundaries of the discipline. Canadian architect and educator Alvin Boyarsky, director of the Architectural Association school in London from 1971 until his death in … Read More
German graphic designer and painter Anton Stankowski (1906 – 1998) worked on the possibility of describing actions and forces through abstract compositions. Far from the depiction of physical properties, his visual research did not aim at depicting physical properties, but at giving shape to the forces acting behind intangible scientific processes and societal relationships. The … Read More
Imants Tillers is an Australian artist, curator, and writer. Trained as an architect, he participated to Christo’s wrapping-up of Little Bay in 1969. His interest in conceptual art is expressed by his vision of reality as a construct of the mind and art as a key system in conceptualization. His series of 1979-80, This Attempting to … Read More
“Slat Dance” is a ballet conceived by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer in the 1920s. The main feature is a specific costume that connects poles to the body of the dancer in order to limit his movements, but also to underline the direction of the movements in space. In Schlemmer’s research, the poles refer to the … Read More
Despite his focus on ordinary scenes and everyday objects, Irish artist Tim Mara (1948-1997) always rejected the qualification of Pop artist and rather identified himself rather in the lineage of Piero della Francesca, Velasquez and Vermeer, with a particular interested towards still life. “I like the constancy of life, like Shakespeare in modern dress.” he stated. … Read More
The city of Timgad, in today’s Algeria, was founded as a military settlement by Emperor Trajan around AD 100 and its original scope was to be a defensive bastion against the Berber invasions. The city had a peaceful existence for the first centuries of its life, but was sacked by the Vandals in the 5th … 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
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