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The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project

October 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of  the first … [Read more...]

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Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 61 Comments

“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]

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“House Taken Over”, by Julio Cortazar, (1944) illustrated by Juan Fresan (1969)

February 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 11 Comments

Thanks to writer China Miéville (author of very good "The City & the City") and to his article about the "50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Dysfunctional Plans, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, literature, politics, psychogeographies, review, social, world weird web

Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture

October 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Some days ago I've been invited as part of the final jury for Pierre-Antoine Marraud (a former student of our atelier at ESA) diploma. This is his … [Read more...]

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Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20

September 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, information graphics, literature, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, review, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Fritz Kahn: Human Body as an Industrialized World

August 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 8 Comments

Codex 99 features a rich article on Fritz Kahn, German gynaecologist and popular science writer from the 1910's to the 1960's. Apart from writing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, literature, past futures, Technology, visions, world weird web

About Metropolis

August 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]

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dOCUMENTA 13: Three Invisible Works

August 9, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Right after the entrance of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, in a somptuous room where one would expect a big art statement, three works deal almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, literature, virtual chronicles, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]

August 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]

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Description of Egypt

July 16, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Flavius Menu of N-D-L-R just wrote a very interesting post about the "Description de l'Egypte", a series of 23 volumes published after the failed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art-2, illustrations, information graphics, literature, maps

The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei

July 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

An epicenter of polemics since its birth, the Centre Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases

June 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 8 Comments

Depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern … [Read more...]

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Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”

May 17, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Roberto La Forgia is one of those artists whose indisputable talent needs some time to completely bloom. Knowing him since almost six years now we've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: comics, illustrations, literature, magazines, world weird web

“Linea Ex Machina” / Questioning Architectural Representation, a project by Nelson Larroque

March 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Nelson Larroque's final degree project, made under the supervision of Peter Cook at ESA in Paris, consists literally in a device designed and built … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, illustrations, industrial design, literature, Technology, 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

Ugo La Pietra, La Casa Telematica, 1971

November 22, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Dpr-barcelona Flickr sets are already worth visiting, but check out this collection about Ugo La Pietra's La Casa Telematica. (and if you're in Paris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, italians, literature, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Studio Magazine features “Tower of Joy”, by Leopold Lambert

November 17, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Check out this interesting episode in digital and on paper architectural zines world: Studio Magazine. Last issue (01), entitled [from] CRISIS … [Read more...]

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Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers

November 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]

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Why Start an Architecture Journal in an Age That is Disgusted with (Most of Them), by Françoise Fromonot

November 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Françoise Fromonot is an architect, teacher and critic. She is professor at the ENSA Paris-Belleville, Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice … [Read more...]

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Paul Klee, Pedagogical sketchbook, 1968

November 7, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Based on his 1921 to 1931 lectures on visual form at Bauhaus Staatliche Art School, and on the over 3000 handwritten pages of notes, the sketchbook … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Art, form of form, illustrations, information graphics, literature, past futures, visions, world weird web

Katsuhiro Otomo’s Domu

November 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 6 Comments

The chilling 1983 manga "Domu, a child's dream" , by Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira's fame, revolves around a child and an old man conducting telekinetic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, comics, illustrations, literature

Elias Zenghelis: The Aesthetics of the Present, 1988

November 5, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A beautiful article signed Zenghelis on the 1988 Architectural Design monograph "Deconstruction in Architecture" (AD profile #72, published as part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, literature, magazines, past futures, politics, urban chronicles

La città capitalista, by Giovanni Brino

October 30, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

An ambitious title for a 1978 obscure yet brilliantly illustrated book by italian scholar studying urban planning in UCLA Giovanni Brino. Just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, italians, literature, past futures, politics, urban chronicles

“Images drifting into the distance”, a cycle of conferences, debates, meetings, by Benoit Peeters

September 27, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Centre Pompidou program of evenings during the last three months of this year is particularly rich (Anri Sala, Kusama, Matali Crasset among … [Read more...]

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