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Alvin Boyarsky, Chicago à la carte, The City as an Energy System (1968)

October 2, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This post introduces a series of heterogeneous articles on Chicago, the city and its architecture: sparse attempts to convey different looks at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: boyarsky, chicago, city, history, labor, postcards, Urbanism

The City in the Space by Ricardo Bofill and Taller de Arquitectura (1970)

December 8, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: archigram, city, housing, utopia

The Round City of Baghdad

October 6, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Ancient cities, city

The Artic City. A project by Frei Otto and Kenzo Tange

October 3, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Artificial Microclimates, Housing the Multitude, Technology, Territories Tagged With: arctic, city, ice

Building a Micropolis: SimCity in 1989

July 20, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: city, Game, simcity

City: Bolshevik Superpoem in 5 Cantos, by Manuel Maples Arce

June 12, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: city, mexico, modernity

The Pleasures of Suburban Life: Las Terrenas Resort (Elia Zenghelis – Eleni Gigantes, 1989)

April 30, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: city, nature, project, resort

Civilization and its Discontents According to Ben Tolman

March 8, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: city, civilization, drawings, ink, Urban

Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)

December 5, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: bourgeois myth, city, koolhaas, Urban

Flat Manhattan (1883)

May 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: city, cretto, form of form, gibellina, manhattan, New York

City Maps by Jazzberry Blue

January 30, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  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...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: Cartography, cities, city, maps, pattern, texture

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