Taylor Mazer is an artist and teacher living and working in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. His work consists of very detailed miniature ink drawings. Working … [Read more...]
The City in the Space by Ricardo Bofill and Taller de Arquitectura (1970)
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 … [Read more...]
Endless City and Other Works by Brian Alfred
Brian Alfred is an artist based in Brooklyn. Parallelly to his career as a musician he has created paintings, collages and animations, consisting … [Read more...]
The Round City of Baghdad
The first nucleus of the city of Baghdad was the "Round City" (Madinat al-Salam) founded by the Abbasid caliph al- Mansur in 762 AD and completed in … [Read more...]
The Artic City. A project by Frei Otto and Kenzo Tange
In 1971, German architect Frei Otto presented the project for a city of 40.000 inhabitants to be built in the Artic circle beneath a pneumatic dome of … [Read more...]
Building a Micropolis: SimCity in 1989
Will Wright's SimCity was originally a map developing feature within the game Raid on Bungeling Bay. Born of Wright's love for the intricacies of … [Read more...]
City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos, by Manuel Maples Arce
Here is my poem brutal and manifold of the new city, Oh city all tense with cables and exertions resonant with motors and wings. Urbe … [Read more...]
The Pleasures of Suburban Life: Las Terrenas Resort (Elia Zenghelis – Eleni Gigantes, 1989)
The 1989 competition entry for a resort in Santo Domingo, was for Elia Zenghelis (teacher, co-founder and former partner of OMA) and Eleni Gigantes … [Read more...]
Civilization and its Discontents According to Ben Tolman
The hyper-detailed ink-on-paper drawings by Ben Tolman depict the built environment and the effects it has on the people who inhabit it. Cities … [Read more...]
City Strips: “All Action Architecture From Some of The Most Read Cities of Fiction Earth”
Following our 2014 post "Spuk, a Story without Characters by Niklas Rüegg", and our 2010 post "Minus", here is another exercise in comic strips … [Read more...]
Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)
Now that the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale finally came to an end, we think it is the right time to publish this interesting short essay by … [Read more...]
Blue Cities for Crystal Globes, by Tom Radclyffe
Tom Radclyffe is a London based illustrator currently studying Ma Visual Communication. He draws densely detailed portraits of cities and buldings, … [Read more...]
Flat Manhattan (1883)
A moment in time when Manhattan was flat and had a strange likeness to Burri's 1984-89 "Cretto di Gibellina" (photograph below). The 1883 engraving … [Read more...]
“Speaks true who speaks shadow” (*): Fernando Martín Godoy’s paintings
The subjects of the paintings by Fernando Martín Godoy range from urban scenes to portrait, to interiors, still life and landscape. He … [Read more...]
Sleepy Town, by Lili des Bellons
Lili des Bellons is an illustrator from Paris, France. Her work is defined by granular textures and vivid tones. This is how the characters of a city … [Read more...]
ONECITY: Will Insley’s Non Utopian Monumental City
American artist Will Insley worked for over 40 years on a monumental project, the planning of an imaginary city called “OneCity”. Starting in the … [Read more...]
Botto & Bruno’s Interiors’ Urban Traces
Turin-born duo Botto & Bruno examines, since the early Nineties, the periphery of European cities. Photographs, collages and drawings, as … [Read more...]
City Maps by Jazzberry Blue
Jazzberry Blue is an an artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Among his rich production, stands out a set of city maps rendered in an … [Read more...]
