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Embracing Landscapes: “Mimesis” (1972-1973) by Barbara and Michael Leisgen

November 3, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Body Measuring Space Tagged With: land art, performance, photography

“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen

October 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Fields, Territories Tagged With: antimonument, land art, memorial, monument, open form

Perspective Corrections, by Jan Dibbets (1967-1969)

April 25, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: land art, photography

Earliest Land-Art: Herbert Bayer and Fritz Benedict’s Green Mound and Marble Garden (1954-1955)

July 12, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

''I believe that the artist must achieve creative control over the whole of his environment.''- Herbert Bayer : New York Times, October 21, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: aspen, bauhaus, earthwork, land art

Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973)

October 22, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: conceptual, form of form, land art, map, New York, property

Ettore Sottsass Jr.’s Metaphors (1972-1979)

September 9, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

"He starts leaving discrete signs in the landscape, almost invisible traces, he continues building real architectures or metaphors of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: desert, form of form, land art, metaphors

Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)

October 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: land art, past futures, photography, Technology

Barents Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture

April 7, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, information graphics, land art, psychogeographies, review, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

“Taking Measures Across the American Landscape” by James Corner and Alex McLean

October 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

James Corner, internationally renowned landscape architect and forerunner of the landscape urbanism movement, was author in 1996 of "Taking Measures … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, land art, psychogeographies, visions, world weird web

The Territory as an Abstract Cartography

October 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Art, information graphics, land art, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan

August 18, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, land art, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

Duga-3, a Giant Abandoned Radio Structure Within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

July 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, form of form, land art, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

Poles of Inaccessibility

June 30, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Territories Tagged With: information graphics, land art, world weird web

When Mathias Rust landed on the Red Square, Building an Imaginary Bridge on the Iron Curtain

June 4, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

In the autumn of 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan met in Reykjavík, Iceland, to talk about nuclear disarmament. The summit was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: land art, past futures, people, politics, social, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

David Gissen’s Reconstruction of the Mound of Vendôme

April 30, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

David Gissen, teacher at CCA, author of Subnature and editor of HTC Experiments, proposed a project of radical reconstruction, a pragmatic statement … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, land art, past futures, people, politics, social, urban chronicles

Day One, (a World Without Objects), by Microcities

March 2, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Day One is our proposal for a new park in Grønmo (Norway). A former waste disposal site, the new Grønmo is not just a park but a new territory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, land art, maps, our works, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

A phrenology of the artist’s mind: Grayson Perry‘s 2004 “Map of an Englishman”

February 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Grayson Perry's 2004 "Map of an Englishman" is a 120 x 150 cm psychogeographical exploration of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, land art, literature, maps, past futures, psychogeographies, satire, visions, world weird web

Removing / Extending Manhattan

December 7, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Some time ago we posted an interesting 1975 map entitled "Removal of Manhattan Island", by Robert Grosvenor. The operation (see below) of disposing of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, land art, magazines, past futures, Technology

Ruins of the abyss

October 26, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ethel Baraona, whose always interesting articles and links we particularly missed during these two weeks of no-internet, points towards this post on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, industrial design, land art, movies, past futures, Technology

“Smithson and Serra: beyond modernism” documentary

September 12, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

An out-of-circulation documentary about the work of Richard Serra and Robert Smithson, produced in the UK for television. Streamable and downloadable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, land art, movies

Landscape Futures. Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions

September 7, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"Landscape Futures" is an exhibition curated by Geoff Manaugh of BLDG BLOG, on display at the Nevada Museum of Art through February 12, 2012. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, land art, Technology

Teaching environmental sculpture to children

August 26, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In 1975 John Lidstone and Clarence Bunch unveiled the pedagogic potential of environmental actions, specializing ideas of artist like Ant Farm, Otto … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, information graphics, land art, past futures, social, visions, world weird web

Plan as map: The Funambulist on Miralles

August 7, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"The architect that creates the most expressive ambiguity between the architectural plan and the map seems to be Enric Miralles (1955-2000)." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, land art, people, visions

Samantha Lee, AA Diploma 6: “Sacred Anomalies: Infiltrating Landscape Surveys”

July 22, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

The Australian mineral trade inspired Lee’s work, which intends to "explores the space of the mining survey as a parallel site for intervention, where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, land art, Technology

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