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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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, literature, magazines, past futures, people, photography, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972

June 10, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers,  equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, magazines, past futures, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, world weird web

Ugo La Pietra on Venice (1982)

June 2, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"I pay the ticket, I enter, do a tour of things to see, so I go: this is the time in Venice, a time equal to the one that everyone uses when entering … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, urban chronicles, world weird web

The Diesel Era Lithographs of Louis Lozowick (1920’s to 1940’s)

April 27, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

The Diesel era immortalized in the powerful lithographs of Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973). Born in the Russian Empire, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, magazines, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, street, Technology, urban chronicles, world weird web

OASE Covers by Karel Martens

April 18, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

OASE is a journal for architecture, the content of which is mostly available online. In 1990 Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens took over the design … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, typography, world weird web

Review: The Draftery Fig. 02 – Narrative Exhortations

November 8, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

It is now clear that after some years of normative drawings and shiny renderings like the ones defining the aesthetics of a Mark magazine, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, politics, review, visions, world weird web

“Don’t you think there is enough anxiety at present?” The 1982 Debate Between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman

November 6, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 7 Comments

CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The thing that strikes me about your friend's building -- if I understood you correctly -- is that somehow in some intentional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, magazines, past futures, people, Technology, visions, world weird web

Deserto Rosso #0 – ‘Festschrift per gli 80 anni di Peter Eisenman’

October 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"I have to think that all that happens to me is my life" (Monica Vitti in "The Red Desert") A "Festschrift" is a celebratory book made in honour of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, people, review, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

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

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, literature, magazines, movies, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

“Utopia”, “The Mediatory City” and “The Struggle for Housing”: Three Issues by Gruppo Strum (1972)

August 13, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Low popular culture and social activism blend together in this magazine of three issues by Gruppo Strum, commissioned by Moma in 1972. The three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, politics, satire, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

There’s nothing you can do about it: Short history of the Architect and the Robot, by Gérard Courtieux (1969)

July 23, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

From one of the most impressive issues ever of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Nouvel Environnement de l'Homme, 145/1969), a revealing article about the … [Read more...]

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KRIEGSMASCHINE, BY THNMD – 2012

July 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Our friend THNMD, a very active internet user, just got her Master Degree of Advanced Studies in Spatial Design ZFH at the ZHDK. Congratulating … [Read more...]

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Bringing the Atom into the American Homes: Erik Nitsche illustrations for General Dynamics

July 8, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

"Who is this guy doing the Bauhaus in New York?"  - László Moholy-Nagy   Art director, book designer, illustrator, typographer, graphic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: ads, illustrations, information graphics, magazines, past futures, politics, Technology, world weird web

The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)

June 14, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

An interesting lecture -in Italian- from an almost 35 years old issue of Ottagono, (an Italian architecture and design magazine still living today) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, magazines, past futures, politics, social, Technology, world weird web

Early Days of the Advertising Business

June 2, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Secrets, humiliations and legends in early days of the adverting industry's explosion, from an article of LIFE Magazine April 28th, 1958. As you may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media Tagged With: ads, illustrations, information graphics, magazines, past futures, people, world weird web

Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia

May 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions

Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)

May 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles

Artificial Landscape (La Pietra on Domus 665/1985)

May 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In this text by Ugo La Pietra the urban furniture is the starting point of a project, the elements from which to measure and to define the urban space … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, social, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

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

Past Forward 2012 / The Peak by Zaha Hadid (Domus 1983)

May 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Friends of Think Space, the annual conceptual competition program from Zagreb, Croatia (see our project Grundrisse), have recently unveiled the theme … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, magazines, past futures, visions

Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music

April 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

From Things Magazine:  "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, illustrations, magazines, past futures, synthesizers, Technology, visions

Unemployed into Self Employed, an article by Leon Krier, 1985

April 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

This article was kindly sent to us by Gabriele Mastrigli. Altough we're not fond of Leon Krier past speculations and despite the controversy about his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, magazines, politics, Technology, visions

Rituals, Before and After Space

March 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Two of our articles have been recently featured on the Funambulist and on Studio Magazine. In the next few days we'll talk about the former, that you … [Read more...]

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