The New York Earth Room is an interior land-art installation by artist Walter de Maria. Since 1977, 197 cubic meters of earth fill a room on the … [Read more...]
Embracing Landscapes: “Mimesis” (1972-1973) by Barbara and Michael Leisgen
Barbara and Michael Leisgen are a couple of German artists working at the intersection between photography, performance art and land-art since the … [Read more...]
“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen
"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]
Perspective Corrections, by Jan Dibbets (1967-1969)
Between 1967 and 1969, Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets created a series of works, consisting of photographs of walls, floors and lawns, titled … [Read more...]
Alice Aycock’s “A Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels” (1975)
In 1975, American artist Alice Aycock created the first of her underground earthworks for the exhibition “Projects in Nature” at Merriewold West, Far … [Read more...]
“Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing”, 1969 by Michael Heizer
In 1969, American artist Michael Heizer drove a motorcycle in circles in Jean Dry Lake, Nevada. The tire tracks created a pattern of circular lines, … [Read more...]
Earliest Land-Art: Herbert Bayer and Fritz Benedict’s Green Mound and Marble Garden (1954-1955)
''I believe that the artist must achieve creative control over the whole of his environment.''- Herbert Bayer : New York Times, October 21, … [Read more...]
Rock Drawings, by Richard Long (1994)
A long trajectory connects Richard Long's "A line made by walking" (1967) to his "Rock Drawings" (1994). In both works (as in many during his career) … [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...]
Ettore Sottsass Jr.’s Metaphors (1972-1979)
"He starts leaving discrete signs in the landscape, almost invisible traces, he continues building real architectures or metaphors of the … [Read more...]
Inhabiting the Earth: Walter Pichler’s “Sitzgruben”
Walter Pichler (1936-2012) is renowned for his conception of the unity of artistic disciplines: sculpture, architecture, art have no … [Read more...]
Domestication of a Pyramid, by Magdalena Jetelovà (1991)
“The domestication of absolute architecture takes place in our minds.” - Magdalena Jetelova Some days ago we wrote about Czech artist … [Read more...]
The “Yonaguni Monument” : An Underwater Sculptural Space of Ambiguous Origin
The "Yonaguni monument" is a massive submarine rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni in the Ryukyu Island, in Japan. Discovered in 1985 … [Read more...]
Landscape as Cartography: When Giant Concrete Arrows were Scattered Across the American Territory
Flying in the 20s had to be a thrilling experience, indeed. In the absence of radio communication or radar technology, pilots engaged in … [Read more...]
Sculpted Landscapes: Isamu Noguchi’s Playgrounds
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a prolific sculptor who later applied his plastic sensibility to furniture design, landscape architecture as well as … [Read more...]
Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)
This moon atlas was published by L'Observatoire de Paris in 1899 and edited by Maurice (Moritz) Loewy. The following are the Cover, the Title Page … [Read more...]
Barents Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture
Laba (Laboratory Basel), a satellite studio of the Institut d’architecture et de la ville (IA) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) … [Read more...]
“Taking Measures Across the American Landscape” by James Corner and Alex McLean
James Corner, internationally renowned landscape architect and forerunner of the landscape urbanism movement, was author in 1996 of "Taking Measures … [Read more...]
The Territory as an Abstract Cartography
Waiting to find some time to write a more extensive post, we leave you with the marvelous details of early geological maps from the 19th and 20th … [Read more...]
Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan
The architect and city planner Oscar Newman, better known for his dreadful "Defensible space theory", (pdf here) also fostered in 1969 the bizarre … [Read more...]
Gravity One, A Choreography for Militarised Airspace
"GravityONE" is Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu's architectural diploma, presented in the summer of 2011 at The Architectural Association [AA] School of … [Read more...]
Duga-3, a Giant Abandoned Radio Structure Within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Just a few miles away from the exploded nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, stands a huge Soviet abandoned rectangular antenna made by an array of … [Read more...]
How to ‘Earthwork’ an Exhibition Space: Interiors Land Art Experiences
Early Land Art practices emerged as a protest against the commercialization of art at the end of the 1960's and as a subsequent refusal of the museum … [Read more...]
Poles of Inaccessibility
A pole of inaccessibility is an extreme point of Earth which is hard to reach due to its remoteness to geographical features that could provide … [Read more...]
