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An Exercise in Constraints: Drawings by Wacław Szpakowski (1883-1973)

March 29, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Visual Atlas Tagged With: drawing, line

The Theatre as Machine: Joseph Furttenbach Stage Design

March 8, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: drawing, set design, tretise

Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil.

February 6, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: drawing, indigenous, portrait

Ben Shahn, Untitled Drawing Series, (1948)

November 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, the Hickmans were one among many African Americans families looking for affordable housing in Chicago. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawing, segregation, social

Aurélien Débat, Horizon Lines (2014-15)

October 16, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

French illustrator Aurélien Débat has already been featured in Socks with his "Imaginary City of Tamponville". The work shown here (titled: Lignes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: drawing, lines, texture

Estates of Tomorrow, by Catherine O’Donnell (2013)

January 8, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, The Everyday Uncanny Tagged With: drawing, everyday, ordinary, suburban

Anatomy of The Line: Drawings by Esjieun Kim

June 1, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Korean artist and architect Esjieun Kim is interested in the relationship between drawing, movement, and space. The medium which operates the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields Tagged With: drawing, line

Collapsing Utopia: Massinissa Selmani’s “1000 Villages” and the Failed Algerian Agrarian Revolution of 1973

November 7, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Africa, drawing, politics

A Land-Art of Imagination: Drawings by František Lesák

October 7, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: drawing, Landscape, mountain

The Even Covering of the Field (Sam Jacob)

July 5, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields, Territories Tagged With: drawing, field, sam jacob

Accidental Abstraction: Works by Marc Nagtzaam

June 2, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Territories Tagged With: abstraction, Black and White, drawing, minimalism

Within Four Walls: Binnenskamers by Tim Enthoven

May 8, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

"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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Housing the Isolated Individual Tagged With: ascetism, Black and White, comic, drawing, isolation

Arnar Ásgeirsson’s Living Sections

March 15, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Icelandic artist Arnar Ásgeirsson creates narrative works employing disparate materials and techniques, from video to installation and animations. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Black and White, drawing, section

“Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Zhang Zeduan (12th Century) and an 18th Century Remake

February 8, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

"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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: axonometries, axonometry, chinese art, drawing

“We cannot not know history” and other Works by Alex Maymind

May 19, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: drawing

Diane Berg doesn’t work as an Architect Anymore

May 6, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Instead she has pursued an increasingly successful career as illustrator. Yet her former education, which deals with narratives inherent in buildings, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: drawing, illustration

Josephin Ritschel

House E.1027 by Eileen Gray illustrated by Josephin Ritschel

February 26, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: drawing, eileen gray, illustration, Le Corbusier

“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias

January 31, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

  León Ferrari (1920-2013) was an Argentinian conceptual artist who worked with a series of extremely different medias through the years. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: Architecture, Art, drawing, ferrari, form of form, plan, plans

Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)

January 18, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

 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...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, bauhaus, drawing, electronic arts, illustrations, Moholy-Nagy, sound, visions

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