"The Formal Generators of Structure" is a sequence of drawings which explore orthogonal forms. The research starts from the square and the cross, two … [Read more...]
Fireworks at Parc de la Villette, Paris, by Bernard Tschumi, 1992
In 1974, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi developed the theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. Fostering a fierce reaction against the … [Read more...]
John Hejduk’s Diamond House A (1963-1967)
In 1962 architect and educator John Hejduk (1929-2000) started a six-year investigation on the architectural implications of the "diamond … [Read more...]
A “Palladian” Villa in Sweden: The Norrköping House by Sverre Fehn (1963-64)
The Norrköping Villa was designed by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn in 1963-64 as a model architecture for an ideal family of four. The 150 m2 house … [Read more...]
“A Given Moment of a Fleeting Reality”: Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor in Oliveira de Azeméis by Álvaro Siza Vieira (1971-1974)
At the start of the seventies, Porto-born architect Álvaro Siza Vieira completed a series of small-scale projects in the north of Portugal, close to … [Read more...]
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The Form of Form [Announcing the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016]
We are happy to announce that Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli (Socks-Studio / Microcities) will contribute as content curators to "The Form of … [Read more...]
“Agricultural City” by Kisho Kurokawa (1960)
Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa survived the Ise Bay Typhoon in 1959 and his experience inspired the design for an "Agricultural City" … [Read more...]
“I grew up here, but I never felt entirely part of it”: Marco Tirelli’s Tiny Sculptures
Marco Tirelli grew up at the Swiss Institute in Rome, surrounded by visiting scholars and artists. His father was the manager and he family lived … [Read more...]
Waiting Land: Ideal Homes / Interiors / Inventory (Karen Lohrmann & Stefano de Martino 2001-2013)
Waiting Land is an art and landscape project devised by Lorma Marti , the collaborative practice of Stefano de Martino and Karen Lohrmann. The … [Read more...]
Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973)
Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. … [Read more...]
Richard Giblett’s Architectural Algorithms
Richard Giblett (B.1966, Hong Kong), an artist living and working in Melbourne, creates bi and three-dimensional works as explorations of urban … [Read more...]
Franco Purini: Study of Architectural Elements (1968)
The number 11-12 (Nov-Dec 1972) of Italian architecture magazine Controspazio presented a retrospective of the earliest "design researches" by the … [Read more...]
Corner Solutions of Mies Van Der Rohe’s towers (John Winter, 1972)
In the February 1972 issue of The Architectural Review, the architect, writer and Architectural Association teacher John Winter analysed the design … [Read more...]
“I haven’t found a measure yet / To calibrate my displeasure yet”: The design sensibility of post-punk band WIRE
The stark urgency and clean lines of their prose mirrored the light-metal severity of groups like Wire, the Banshees, and Gang of Four, just … [Read more...]
Rhythmus 21, an Early Abstract Film by Hans Richter (1921)
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976), a German avant garde artist who had contacts with "Der Blaue Reiter", Cubism and Dada movements, was … [Read more...]
The Building is the City: Le Corbusier’s Unbuilt Hospital in Venice
The "New Venice hospital" is an unbuilt yet renowned project by Le Corbusier. The first phase of the design took place between 1964 and 1965, the year … [Read more...]
“Irrational and Useless” Monument: The Abu Dhabi Mastaba by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Since 1977 Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been working on their largest mastaba of oil barrels, a project conceived for the city of Abu Dhabi in the … [Read more...]
The Plan is a Society of Rooms*: Goldenberg House by Louis Kahn (1959)
The Goldenberg House is a 1959 unbuilt project by Louis Kahn for an area in Montgomery County near Philadelphia. This work couples previous Kahn's … [Read more...]
First City in Antarctica, a 1980-83 Study by Amancio Williams
In early 1980 Amancio Williams, the Argentinian architect whose 1943 Bridge House we already featured here at Socks, was consulted by the Argentine … [Read more...]
Ascii-Art Mapping: SyMAP (or Early Computer Generated Cartography)
William Caraher, assistant professor at the University of North Dakota and writer of the site "The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World" … [Read more...]
Notes for a Short History of the Anti-Monument /1 : Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monuments
Claes Oldenburg's unbuilt "Monuments" are imaginary anti-memorials designed by the artist at the end of the 1960s. Their paradoxical anti-monumental … [Read more...]
From Lines to Volumes: Architectural Drawings by Kristin Arestava
These enigmatic pencil drawings by Kristin Arestava are an interesting experiment in architectural visualization. The abstract volumes are represented … [Read more...]
“I do not draw plans, facades or sections”: Adolf Loos and the Villa Müller
Villa Müller in Prague was designed by architect Adolf Loos, assisted by architect Karel Lhota, in 1930 for František Müller and his wife, Milada … [Read more...]
The Three Mawangdui Maps: Early Chinese Cartography
Between 1972 to 1974 three tombs in the archaeological site of Mawangdui, China, were excavated. In one of them, the archaeologists … [Read more...]
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