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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

Ryan Carl, Circle Study 07 (2020)

April 15, 2020 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The work of Ryan Carl is "rooted in radical simplicity". A designer who studied religion and philosophy before opening his practice, Ryan Carl delves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: circles, form, formal abstraction, grid

Clusters and Growth: PREVI Housing Project by James Stirling (1976)

January 20, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda), (Experimental Housing Project), was a strategic low-cost project for experimental mass housing in Peru, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: flexibility, grid, growth, housing, low-cost

A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).

June 24, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing", a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: analogy, grid, Urban

A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii

June 21, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The city of Timgad, in today's Algeria, was founded as a military settlement by Emperor Trajan around AD 100 and its original scope was to be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: grid, military, roman, square, town

Understanding the Grid /1: Michel Ecochard’s Planning and Building Framework in Casablanca

December 7, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

French architect Michel Ecochard, also trained as an archeologist, was the director of the Morocco Department of Urban Planning from 1946 to 1952 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Fields, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: colonialism, grid, housing, planning, ubranism

Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle

November 30, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) was an influential graphic and exhibition designer and photographer who lived and worked in Zurich. As the leading … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds Tagged With: Design, grid, music

Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)

September 10, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Project E-2 (1968-1971) by Hiromi Fujii is an example of the Japanese architect's research on "neutral" architecture, one liberated from any burden of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Dysfunctional Plans, Fields, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: abstract, grid, House, Japan

“Irrational Thoughts Should be Followed Absolutely and Logically”: Sol LeWitt’s “Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes” (1974)

June 15, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

In 1974, American artist Sol LeWitt created one of his major works, a seminal piece on the themes of seriality and variation, the series entitled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: conceptual art, form of form, grid, seriality, variation

A Non-Figurative Memorial: The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps in Milan by BBPR (1946)

February 21, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps was designed by the Milanese architecture group BBPR in 1945 in the weeks following the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: grid, monument

Eva Hesse’s Circles and Grids Drawings: Ordered Systems as and Expression of an Obsessive, Introspective Quality

February 16, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Repetition as a formal and conceptual strategy has been employed by artist Eva Hesse (1936-1970) throughout her career with series of drawings on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: grid, minimalism, order

Rento Van Drunen’s ‘Gridcollages’ and ‘Transmission’

December 27, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Rento Van Drunen is pursuing an ongoing visual research on graphs, tables and grids. His series of drawings "Gridcollages" and "Transmission", are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: diagrams, form of form, graphs, grid

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