Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect, engineer and artist. Starting at seventeen years old and throughout his whole life, he developed a series of … [Read more...]
The Theatre as Machine: Joseph Furttenbach Stage Design
Joseph Furttenbach (1591 – 1667) was a German architect, engineer and architecture theorist who lived in Italy from 1610 to 1620. During his stay … [Read more...]
Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil.
Founded by Lina Bo and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi in 1950, the Brazilian magazine Habitat ("The magazine of the arts in Brazil") manifested a … [Read more...]
Ben Shahn, Untitled Drawing Series, (1948)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, the Hickmans were one among many African Americans families looking for affordable housing in Chicago. … [Read more...]
Aurélien Débat, Horizon Lines (2014-15)
French illustrator Aurélien Débat has already been featured in Socks with his "Imaginary City of Tamponville". The work shown here (titled: Lignes … [Read more...]
Estates of Tomorrow, by Catherine O’Donnell (2013)
Catherine O'Donnell is an Australian visual artist whose practice "is about the beauty of the uncelebrated and ordinary", looking for the intrinsic … [Read more...]
Anatomy of The Line: Drawings by Esjieun Kim
Korean artist and architect Esjieun Kim is interested in the relationship between drawing, movement, and space. The medium which operates the … [Read more...]
Collapsing Utopia: Massinissa Selmani’s “1000 Villages” and the Failed Algerian Agrarian Revolution of 1973
Massinissa Selmani, an Algerian artist born in 1980, began his studies in art in Tours, France after obtaining a degree in computer science. Today, he … [Read more...]
A Land-Art of Imagination: Drawings by František Lesák
František Lesák is a Czech artist who moved to Vienna in 1964. In the series Berglandschaft (Mountain Landscape, 1972-1973), today part of the … [Read more...]
The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)
As a former British Army Captain converted to scholar of early Muslim architecture, K. A. C. Creswell coined the expression "The even covering of the … [Read more...]
Accidental Abstraction: Works by Marc Nagtzaam
Marc Nagtzaam is a Dutch artist who lives and works in Belgium. His production consists mostly of black and white graphite drawings on different … [Read more...]
Within Four Walls: Binnenskamers by Tim Enthoven
"Binnenskamers" (Within four walls) is a graphic novel by Dutch artist Tim Enthoven, published in 2011. The book contains the detailed story of … [Read more...]
Arnar Ásgeirsson’s Living Sections
Icelandic artist Arnar Ásgeirsson creates narrative works employing disparate materials and techniques, from video to installation and animations. The … [Read more...]
“Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Zhang Zeduan (12th Century) and an 18th Century Remake
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a Chinese artwork attributed to the Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and painted over a … [Read more...]
“We cannot not know history” and other Works by Alex Maymind
Alex Maymind (b. Riga, Latvia, 1984) currently pursues a PhD in the history and theory of architecture at UCLA, after studying architecture at Yale … [Read more...]
Diane Berg doesn’t work as an Architect Anymore
Instead she has pursued an increasingly successful career as illustrator. Yet her former education, which deals with narratives inherent in buildings, … [Read more...]
House E.1027 by Eileen Gray illustrated by Josephin Ritschel
Josephin Ritschel (Mevameva) is an illustrator living and working in Berlin. We originally knew her thanks to Wrap Magazine that used the illustration … [Read more...]
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was an Argentinian conceptual artist who worked with a series of extremely different medias through the years. … [Read more...]
Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)
László Moholy - Nagy - collage, ink and watercolour on paper "The Light Prop for an Electric Stage", also known as "the Light Space Modulator", … [Read more...]
