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...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“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...]
“House Taken Over”, by Julio Cortazar, (1944) illustrated by Juan Fresan (1969)
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...]
Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture
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...]
Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20
Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]
Fritz Kahn: Human Body as an Industrialized World
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...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Three Invisible Works
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...]
dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
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...]
Description of Egypt
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...]
The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei
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...]
How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases
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...]
Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”
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...]
“Linea Ex Machina” / Questioning Architectural Representation, a project by Nelson Larroque
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...]
Studio Magazine features “Tower of Joy”, by Leopold Lambert
Check out this interesting episode in digital and on paper architectural zines world: Studio Magazine. Last issue (01), entitled [from] CRISIS … [Read more...]
Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers
208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]
Why Start an Architecture Journal in an Age That is Disgusted with (Most of Them), by Françoise Fromonot
Françoise Fromonot is an architect, teacher and critic. She is professor at the ENSA Paris-Belleville, Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice … [Read more...]
Paul Klee, Pedagogical sketchbook, 1968
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...]
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Domu
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...]
Elias Zenghelis: The Aesthetics of the Present, 1988
A beautiful article signed Zenghelis on the 1988 Architectural Design monograph "Deconstruction in Architecture" (AD profile #72, published as part of … [Read more...]
La città capitalista, by Giovanni Brino
An ambitious title for a 1978 obscure yet brilliantly illustrated book by italian scholar studying urban planning in UCLA Giovanni Brino. Just … [Read more...]
“Images drifting into the distance”, a cycle of conferences, debates, meetings, by Benoit Peeters
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...]
Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas, (12 Ideal Cities), by Superstudio, 1971
Piero Frassinelli, member of Superstudio, evoked here for the first time his idea of 12 dystopic funny fantasies of urban planning. After its first … [Read more...]
Kort Vonnegut explains the Shapes of Stories
"I want to share with you something I've learned. I'll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the … [Read more...]
