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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 wall of an aula of the … Read More
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 on the water, often … Read More
A hugely influential Dutch architect and theorist, Aldo Van Eyck conducted a thirty-years-long (1947 – 1978) research through practice designing hundreds of public playgrounds in Amsterdam while working for the Urban Development Department. Appeared after World War II, (the first one was built in 1947), the playgrounds slowly found their place in derelict sectors … Read More
In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson designed a house for themselves for an infill site in Colville place in Soho neighborhood, in London, on an area bombed during the war. Confronted with the everyday reality of post-war England, the Smithsons decided to accept the given conditions, those of ‘a society that had nothing‘ (*). The … Read More
‘Mehr Licht!’ (More light!) cried writer and color theorist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe just before dying. Mehr Licht ! is also the title of a series of works by French illustrator, comic artist, and artist tout court Jochen Gerner, a selection of illustrations of whom we have already featured on Socks. The work, an investigation on … Read More
Pia-Mélissa Laroche is an illustrator living and working in Paris, France. Her works, often represented through axonometric projections, depict absurd archaeological islands in decontextualized territories. Populated by objects/architectures coming from the author’s own experience, these territories become settings for potential narratives. Following are graphite drawings from four series: “Hyper Demeures”, “5 Spectres”, “Les futuribles”, “Lieu … Read More
In his Dictionnaire des termes employés dans la construction …: volume G.-Z, (1872) Pierre Chabat, wrote: ‘Considered from the point of view of external form and ornamentation, a large number of wells of all ages can be regarded as true works of art … ‘ This is why the taxonomic enterprise undertaken by J.-N.-L. Durand in 1800 and … Read More
David Katz’s Psychological Atlas (1948), is a collection of drawings, photographs, diagrams, and charts used by the author, a renowned psychologist and professor at the University of Stockholm, to illustrate his lectures. The work was published with the intention of “arousing a zeal for the study of psychology”. As stated in the foreword, the author, invited to speak … Read More
The issue 78/79 of Design Quarterly (journal published in 1970 by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) was completely dedicated to possible definitions of Conceptual Architecture. The author, architectural writer John Margolies, invited 11 artists and architects to provide their own visual account on the subject. Margolies’ letter was also used as the textual cover for the issue, hence … Read More
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