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A Visual Thinking Strategy: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors (1982)

February 16, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) accompanied his life-long architectural and theoretical production with a parallel work on found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: analogy, essay, maps, metaphor, visual thinking

Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)

January 26, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Media, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: ai, algorithm, maps, new media

Abstract Layers of Territory: Maps by David Lemm

February 3, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

David Lemm is a visual artist and designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His production ranges widely from illustrations to collages, multi-media … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction Tagged With: Cartography, illustration, maps

Visualizing Land: Works by Matthew Rangel

December 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: carthography, maps, mountains

Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)

August 26, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: charts, lunar, mapping, maps, moon, topography

Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems

June 30, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: baruchello, Collage, drawings, maps, Paintings

Gábor Attalai: Map Works For Klaus Groh (1971)

March 19, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Attalai Gábor (Budapest, 1934-2011) was a leading representative of Hungarian conceptual art, performance, and graphic design. His works, with a large … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: conceptual art, maps

MAP Office: Hong Kong Is Land (2014)

February 4, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

MAP Office, a duo of artists and architects formed in 1996 by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix (already on Socks with their "Unreal Estates of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: Cartography, exhibition, hong kong, maps

City Maps by Jazzberry Blue

January 30, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Jazzberry Blue is an an artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Among his rich production, stands out a set of city maps rendered in an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: Cartography, cities, city, maps, pattern, texture

The Walled City of Shibam, a ‘Manhattan of the desert’

August 12, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 16 Comments

Sometimes ago we wrote about the walled city of Kowloon, a spontaneous, unregulated urban development near Hong Kong. Whereas that one was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, information graphics, maps, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

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

Exploring the interiors of London Underground/DLR stations

July 12, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Andrew Godwin, a British programmer, is working on a set of navigable 3d maps of London's tube stations. This is arguably an early version of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, information graphics, maps, world weird web

Atlas for the Blind, 1837

July 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

From the spectacular David Rumsey Map Collection, the 1837 "Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind", embossed heavy paper … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture Tagged With: illustrations, maps, paperworks, psychogeographies, world weird web

Comparing Urbanization

June 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Berkeley's  Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: information graphics, maps, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles

Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)

June 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is one the first (if not the very first) practical astronomy books published in Germany. "Astronomisches Handbuch" appeared in 1718, edited and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: form of form, illustrations, information graphics, maps, past futures, Technology, 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...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, literature, maps, past futures, politics, Technology, visions, world weird web

How Big Really?

May 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

BBC has just released "How Big Really?", a site that allows for the overlay of the dimension of an event onto another geographical territory. That … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Territories Tagged With: information graphics, maps, politics, psychogeographies, urban chronicles

Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris

April 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, maps, past futures, photography, psychogeographies, social, Technology, world weird web

Mapping the flowing of wind

March 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Wind Map live-traces the flowing of wind across the territory of the United States. This delicately moving "fur" delineates the uncharted land of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: maps, psychogeographies, Technology, world weird web

ScanLAB Projects’ Bartlett Summer Show 2010 (pioneering 3d scanning)

March 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Led by Matthew Shaw and William Trosell, the London-based ScanLAB Projects specializes in large size 3d scanning for objects, buildings and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, information graphics, maps, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Emma McNally’s Fields, Charts, Soundings Cartographies

March 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Emma McNally's work is an artistic cartography of imaginary nodes, network topologies, noise patterns, musical notations. Traces and scatters shape an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Fields, Territories Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, form of form, illustrations, maps, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird web

Miracle at the Vistula, by Simone de Iacobis

March 14, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Our friend and school colleague Simone de Iacobis lives and works in Poland as an architect and photographer. Miracle at the Vistula is his recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, maps, past futures, photography, politics, Technology, urban chronicles, world weird web

Day One, (a World Without Objects), by Microcities

March 2, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Day One is our proposal for a new park in Grønmo (Norway). A former waste disposal site, the new Grønmo is not just a park but a new territory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, land art, maps, our works, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Cartographic Regression

January 30, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Here's how the territory of Palestine has shrinked and borders have fragmented from 1917 to present day. A cartographic essay on GOOD. Thanks, Ethel, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, maps, politics, psychogeographies, world weird itself, world weird web

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