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“The process I use has nothing at all of that of an ‘artist’ nor does it have anything in common with an ‘artistic gesture’”. Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number

February 7, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Dutch Benedictine architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) developed his body of work on the base of a system of proportions he had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Body Measuring Space, Representation: Models Tagged With: geometry, proportions, theory

Ryan Carl, Grid Forms Study 02 (2020)

April 18, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

After Circle Study 07, the second work by designer Ryan Carl that we feature here on Socks is a sequence of geometric operations on grid forms … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: geometry, grid, grids

Hartmut Böhm’s Sistematic Principles and Magnetic Fields

March 22, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hartmut Böhm is a German artist whose work spans four decades and who joined avant-garde artistic movements such as Neue Tendenzen, a German approach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: geometry, kinetic art, magnetic field, mathematics, op art, structure

“Visual Induction”: Works by Franco Grignani

February 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franco Grignani was a hugely influential graphic designer and artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting. Born in Pieve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: advertising, geometry, gestalt, graphic design, perception, repetition

120 Variations on the Platonic Solids: ‘Perspectiva Corporum Regularium‘ by Wenzel Jamnitzer

November 4, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

The 1586 book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, (Perspective of the Regular Solids) is a study of the five Platonic solids modified, stellated and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: etchings, geometry, variations

Simmetry and Alignments: The Temple of Horus in Edfu

February 21, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

One of the best preserved temples in Egypt is devoted to the falcon god Horus and was built between 237 and 57 BCE during the Ptolemaic Period. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Egypt, form of form, geometry, temple

Richard Giblett’s Architectural Algorithms

October 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories Tagged With: alhorithms, cities, dystopia, form of form, geometry

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