“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...]
Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972
In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers, equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]
Ugo La Pietra on Venice (1982)
"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...]
The Diesel Era Lithographs of Louis Lozowick (1920’s to 1940’s)
The Diesel era immortalized in the powerful lithographs of Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973). Born in the Russian Empire, … [Read more...]
OASE Covers by Karel Martens
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...]
Review: The Draftery Fig. 02 – Narrative Exhortations
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...]
“Don’t you think there is enough anxiety at present?” The 1982 Debate Between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman
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...]
Deserto Rosso #0 – ‘Festschrift per gli 80 anni di Peter Eisenman’
"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...]
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...]
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...]
“Utopia”, “The Mediatory City” and “The Struggle for Housing”: Three Issues by Gruppo Strum (1972)
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...]
There’s nothing you can do about it: Short history of the Architect and the Robot, by Gérard Courtieux (1969)
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...]
KRIEGSMASCHINE, BY THNMD – 2012
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...]
The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)
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...]
Early Days of the Advertising Business
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...]
Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia
Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]
Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)
Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]
Artificial Landscape (La Pietra on Domus 665/1985)
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...]
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...]
Past Forward 2012 / The Peak by Zaha Hadid (Domus 1983)
Friends of Think Space, the annual conceptual competition program from Zagreb, Croatia (see our project Grundrisse), have recently unveiled the theme … [Read more...]
Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music
From Things Magazine: "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]
Unemployed into Self Employed, an article by Leon Krier, 1985
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...]
Rituals, Before and After Space
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...]
The very corporeal infrastructure behind the immaterial network: history of the international submarine cables
Alfonso Desiderio, a journalist of Italian geopolitics magazine Limes, recently published an interesting piece on the submarine cables infrastructure … [Read more...]
