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...]
Ryan Carl, Circle Study 07 (2020)
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...]
Clusters and Growth: PREVI Housing Project by James Stirling (1976)
PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda), (Experimental Housing Project), was a strategic low-cost project for experimental mass housing in Peru, … [Read more...]
A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).
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...]
A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii
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...]
Understanding the Grid /1: Michel Ecochard’s Planning and Building Framework in Casablanca
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...]
Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle
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...]
Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)
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...]
“Irrational Thoughts Should be Followed Absolutely and Logically”: Sol LeWitt’s “Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes” (1974)
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...]
A Non-Figurative Memorial: The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps in Milan by BBPR (1946)
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...]
Eva Hesse’s Circles and Grids Drawings: Ordered Systems as and Expression of an Obsessive, Introspective Quality
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...]
