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From Vision to Knowledge: Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower (1892)

Scottish geographer, biologist, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes bought a tower next to the Edinburgh Castle in 1892. In over 20 years, he transformed it into an inhabitable device to illustrate his thoughts on visual faculties and the relationship between the individual and the exterior … Read More

Ana Frois, Greenhouses (2015-17)

Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small pieces of an intimate universe. The … Read More

Monumental, Yet So Fragile: Arctic Landscapes by Emma Stibbon

German-born artist Emma Stibbon did her studies in England, where she currently works. Her production is mostly composed of monochrome drawings on paper, often in large-scale … Read More

Fausto Melotti, Weightless Constructions (1960’s – 1980’s)

“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. (Italian … Read More

The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)

“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home … Read More

When Vision becomes Space: Athanasius Kircher’s Camera Obscura (1646)

In his magnum opus on light, projections, and astronomy, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae (“the Great Art of Light and Shadows,” polymath Jesuit scholar and inventor Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) … Read More

Irena Gajic’s 100 Houses

We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture magazine Soiled. Since we love her work, we’ll … Read More

Architectura Curiosa Nova, by Georg Andreas Böckler (1664)

Georg Andreas Böckler, a German architect and engineer, wrote the books Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661) and Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664). Mostly dedicated to hydraulics for fountains, water-jets and … Read More

Plans of Warfare: Figures from Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Art of War

Written between 1519 and 1520, Dell’arte della guerra (The Art of War) was the only historical-political essay published by Niccolò Machiavelli during his lifetime, but it was … Read More

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