Kenneth Price (1935-2012) was an American sculptor and printmaker, known for abstract shapes in clay. After he moved to Los Angeles in the late … [Read more...]
‘Painting Begins Where Language Fails’: Gao Xingjian Ink-Paintings
2000 Nobel prize winning writer Gao Xingjian (China, 1940) is also a prolific artist. His works expose a contemporary sensibility … [Read more...]
The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project
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...]
Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)
[This is the first of a series of posts featuring short essays on and by German architect, city planner, and author Bruno Taut (1880-1938).] In the … [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...]
Quiet Cities (2006-2008), by Nora Sturges
"This group of paintings of imaginary cities -- inspired in part by my living in Baltimore -- explores the theme of human inhabitation of the … [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...]
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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, aka Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied that site), is … [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...]
John D’Agata – Yucca Mountain (Zones Sensibles)
This is the beatiful cover for the upcoming french translation edition of a novel by John D'Agata (originally titled: About a Mountain): a skillful … [Read more...]
Metachaos, by Alessandro Bavari (2011)
Alessandro Bavari is an animation and painting artist living and working in italy. METACHAOS is a multidisciplinary audio-visual project, … [Read more...]
A phrenology of the artist’s mind: Grayson Perry‘s 2004 “Map of an Englishman”
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...]
Ugo La Pietra, La Casa Telematica, 1971
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...]
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...]
