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Human Structures and Architectural Archetypes: Aldo Van Eyck’s Playgrounds (1947 – 1978)

February 11, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

A hugely influential Dutch architect and theorist, Aldo Van Eyck conducted a thirty-years-long (1947 - 1978) research through practice designing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: Concrete, Netherlands, play, playground, postwar

House “for a society that had nothing”, the Soho House by Alison and Peter Smithson, 1953

January 3, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson designed a house for themselves for an infill site in Colville place in Soho neighborhood, in London, on an area … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: anxious modernism, as found, brutalism, Concrete

On Continuous Space: Louis Kahn’s Olivetti-Underwood Factory

September 14, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

In 1966 Italian typewriters and related products company Olivetti asked architect Louis Kahn to design their factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, factory, modular

The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma, 1969

August 31, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Akatsuka House by Takamitsu Azuma was built in Osaka in 1969, a few years after the completion of the Tower House in Tokyo. The principles behind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)

July 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

Built in Tokyo in 1966, the Tower house by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma is developed around a staircase which distributes its six levels. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

A Glimpse of Post-Metabolism: Two Houses by Toyokazu Watanabe

March 20, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Suguiyama House and Nakano House (Standard House 001) are two residential projects designed by Toyokazu Watanabe (b. 1938) between 1979 and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Concrete, House, Japan

Concrete Modular Cities by David Umemoto

November 16, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

David Umemoto is an architect who creates concrete architectural sculptures. His work, he explains, is a highly codified and rigorous construction of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Concrete, sculpture

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