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120 Doors by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (2003)

July 8, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Following the previous post on the isometric environments created by Franka Hörnschemeyer, here we propose a relatively old installation by Chilean … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Dysfunctional Plans, Territories Tagged With: doors, form of form, installation

Mary Miss’s 1977–1978 Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys

June 22, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Mary Miss (1944), pioneer of land art, focuses her outdoor interventions on the experience of the individual moving in a particular landscape; … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: form of form

Factories and Plastics by Marion Tivital

June 5, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The factories painted by Marion Tivital are objects reduced to minimal geometrical forms. The buildings appears in a foggy environment which blurs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: factories, form of form, landscapes, Paintings

Nathalie Du Pasquier’s Recent Paintings and Constructions

May 22, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  Graphic and industrial designer, illustrator and painter, Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) was one of the original co-founders of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media Tagged With: Design, form of form, memphis, painting, postmodern, postmodernism

Giorgio Scarpa’s Models of Rotational Geometry (1978)

May 21, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Genesis of form. Motion is at the root of all growth — Paul Klee Giorgio Scarpa (1938-2012) was an Italian designer, bionics researcher, artist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: drawings, form of form, nature, paper models, rotational geometry

The Building is the City: Le Corbusier’s Unbuilt Hospital in Venice

May 18, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: form of form, hospital, venice

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

Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, by Francis Galton (1863)

May 11, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

English Victorian polymath, sir Francis Galton was a psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: form of form, mapping, meteo, representation, weather

“Irrational and Useless” Monument: The Abu Dhabi Mastaba by Christo and Jeanne-Claude

April 22, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: desert, form of form, monument, sculpture

The Plan is a Society of Rooms*: Goldenberg House by Louis Kahn (1959)

April 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: floor plan, form of form, House, Kahn

Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, the “Eastern Castle” in the Syrian Desert

March 28, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi or "the Eastern Castle", (the Arabic term Qasr means a fortified structure for monitoring a region), is situated 97km … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: ancient, Archeology, castle, form of form, fortification, Syria

Jean-Jacques Lequeu: a Visionary at the Age of Reason

March 23, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (Architect, 1757-1825) worked in France at the same time of Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799) and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: drawings, form of form, France

A Settlement for Equals: The Town of Biskupin in Poland

March 21, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

In 1933, a team from Poznan University led by Polish archaeologist professor Józef Kostrzewski, started a series of excavations close to Lake Biskupin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: archaeology, form of form, Poland

First City in Antarctica, a 1980-83 Study by Amancio Williams

March 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Artificial Microclimates, Territories Tagged With: form of form

Ascii-Art Mapping: SyMAP (or Early Computer Generated Cartography)

March 11, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  William Caraher, assistant professor at the University of North Dakota and writer of the site "The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: archaeology, Cartography, computer, form of form, mapping

Notes for a Short History of the Anti-Monument /1 : Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monuments

March 6, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawings, form of form, monument, sculpture

Kristin Arestav

From Lines to Volumes: Architectural Drawings by Kristin Arestava

March 3, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

These enigmatic pencil drawings by Kristin Arestava are an interesting experiment in architectural visualization. The abstract volumes are represented … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawings, form of form, lines

Loos Villa Müller

“I do not draw plans, facades or sections”: Adolf Loos and the Villa Müller

March 3, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 11 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: form of form, House, Loos, Prague, raumplan

Magwandui maps

The Three Mawangdui Maps: Early Chinese Cartography

March 2, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Between 1972 to 1974 three tombs in the archaeological site of Mawangdui, China, were excavated. In one of them, the archaeologists … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Territories Tagged With: Cartography, China, early map, form of form, map

Hans Dieter Schaal

About the Spatial Experience: Hans Dieter Schaal’s Paths, Passages and Spaces (1970’s)

March 2, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Hans Dieter Schaal (1943) is a German architect, stage designer, landscape designer, writer and artist. Throughout his whole career he constantly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawings, form of form, Landscape, utopian

Learning from the Casbah: Horizontal Housing Units in Rome by Adalberto Libera

February 20, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

Adalberto Libera's "Unità orizzontale" (Horizontal Unit) in the Tuscolano neighborhood in Rome is an experimental housing complex built in the city … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude Tagged With: form of form, housing, Italy, Libera, Rome

“Silent Architecture” by Simon Ungers

February 9, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

  Simon Ungers (1957-2006), son of O.M. Ungers, bound architecture and art throughout his career. His series "Silent architecture" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: absolute, Architecture, form of form, model, ungers

Rooms in the Forest: Jan Szpakowicz’s House (1971)

February 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

  The house Jan Szpakowicz designed and built for himself in 1971 deals with the Polish architect's will to inhabit the woods, merging the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans Tagged With: form of form, House, Poland, woods

A City Made of Rooms : The “Neue Stadt” of Köln (1961-1964) by O.M. Ungers

February 5, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

  In 1957 the urban planning department of Köln decided to develop a new satellite-town of 100,000 inhabitants (Neue-Stadt) in the northern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Housing the Multitude Tagged With: "urban planning", form of form, Germany, housing, ungers

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