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Zsofia Schweger is a Hungarian artist who currently lives and works in London. Her still life paintings of empty interior spaces talk subtly about the people who inhabited them and then left them behind. In her series Sandorfalva, Hungary (2015-17), the subject is inspired by Schweger’s own … Read More
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” 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
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
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
After proposing the last chapter of Complexity and Contradiction, we would like to publish here a rare text by recently passed away architect, historian and teacher Mario Manieri Elia, whose introductory course we had the privilege to attend ourselves while students. The text has originally appeared in 2001 in a publication edited by the school of Architecture of Roma3 following an International … Read More
In 1970, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill and his Taller de Arquitectura worked on a huge housing complex called La Ciudad en el Espacio (The City in the Space) which could acquire the characteristic of a whole neighborhood and provide the basis for a reflexion on the idea of city. Conceived to be “complex and flexible” at … Read More
French architect Michel Ecochard, also trained as an archeologist, was the director of the Morocco Department of Urban Planning from 1946 to 1952 within the context of the French Protectorate of Morocco. In this role, Ecochard led huge urbanization programs, mostly in the Casablanca area. First, Ecochard and his team of architects and planners from … Read More
The Narkomfin Building (Dom Narkomfin) in Moscow was designed by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis in 1928 to host collective housing for employees of the Narodnyo Kommissariat Finansov (the People’s Commissariat of Finance). Completed in 1932, the Narkomfin is one of the few actually built architectural works responding to the constructivist aim of reinventing the everyday … Read More
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