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“The Unpredictable Marks of Chance”: Works by Sean Sullivan

Sean Sullivan is a multimedia artist currently living in NY’s Hudson Valley. He paints, draws, makes prints, sculptures and poems with few and simple means. In the results, he aims at incorporating the conditions in which the works are made. Producing art becomes a process of recording, which adds the traces of chance to the … Read More

Archetypes and Free Plan: Orinda House by Charles W. Moore

Orinda House, also known as “Moore House” is located in a valley behind San Francisco, was designed by architect Charles W. Moore for himself and built in 1962. In this project, Moore experimented with very simple means the possibility to recreate a project that could embody references to different moments of architectural history and that … Read More

Hashimoto Okiie’s Views of Ancient Castles and Gardens / 1

Hashimoto Okiie ( 1899- 1993) was a Japanese woodcut artist. After working as a teacher and spare-time artist, he devoted himself completely to the artistic activity and became well known only after the publication of Oliver Statler’s Modern Japanese Prints (1960). He specialized in prints depicting Japanese castles and gardens, as the 1946 series “Ten Views of Ancient … Read More

“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” by Ben Tolman

“Weltschmerz” and “Made in Sarajevo” are two series of ink drawings by Washington DC-based artist Ben Tolman. The first one is a collection made in 2016 featuring symbolic constructions which compress the city, with its social differences and paradoxes in a stack of floors, terraces, volumes and materials. The overwhelming scenes are sometimes filled with … Read More

Alison and Peter Smithsons’ Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the “Solar pavilion”), 1959-1962

The Upper Lawn Pavilion (also known as the Solar pavilion) was Alison and Peter Smithsons’ weekend home in Wiltshire in the countryside in South-West England. The building is an important moment in the architects’ research on alternatives to suburban houses, on the combination of found structures with contemporary, prefabricated materials and on the way a … Read More

The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere

Stijn Jonckheere, a Belgian self-titled “experimental architect”, works on the brink of architecture, illustration and graphic design. His working method starts from personal interpretation of real-life locations which are then translated into detailed black and white drawings. The technological features of the drawn artifacts are exposed revealing buildings that look like machines, carefully studied in … Read More

Cut-out Reality Pieces by Mike Lee

Mike Lee is a Californian born, New York-based digital and illustration artist. He has been working in the commercial illustration industry, but he also produces his own personal projects. This selection focuses on Mike Lee’s pencil drawings, most of them cut-out black and white illustrations which feature axonometric sections of cities with a look both … Read More

Flows and Growth as Described by Rachel Duckhouse

Rachel Duckhouse is a multi media artist who lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Her practice is based on the deep observation of patterns in natural systems and in human behavior, from the micro to the macro scale. Her etchings, screenprints, lithographs, watercolors and drawings on paper are the product of this research and of … Read More