In 1934, while working on larger commissions and competitions, Giuseppe Terragni designed this small memorial for Roberto Sarfatti, son of Margherita … [Read more...]
“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen
"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]
A Non-Figurative Memorial: The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps in Milan by BBPR (1946)
The Monument to the Victims of the Concentration Camps was designed by the Milanese architecture group BBPR in 1945 in the weeks following the … [Read more...]
Domestic Monuments: Drawings by Nathalie Du Pasquier (2009)
Painter and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier (also on Socks), has been one of the founding members of the design movement Memphis and, in particular, the … [Read more...]
Monument for Every Situation, Lygia Clark (1964)
Monumento para todas as situações ("Monument for Every Situation"), is a series of small-scale objects created by Lygia Clark in 1964. Each one is a … [Read more...]
“Irrational and Useless” Monument: The Abu Dhabi Mastaba by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Since 1977 Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been working on their largest mastaba of oil barrels, a project conceived for the city of Abu Dhabi in the … [Read more...]
Notes for a Short History of the Anti-Monument /1 : Claes Oldenburg Proposed Colossal Monuments
Claes Oldenburg's unbuilt "Monuments" are imaginary anti-memorials designed by the artist at the end of the 1960s. Their paradoxical anti-monumental … [Read more...]
Monuments (The Aesthetics of Financial Tectonics) by Mathieu Bernard-Reymond
Mathieu Bernard-Reymond is a French visual artist. For his series Monuments, he translated financial charts and statistics into 3d shapes, to later … [Read more...]
Landscape of Stars: Hannsjörg Voth’s Stadt des Orion (City of Orion)
From 1997 to 2003 the German artist Hannsjörg Voth lived in the southern desert of Morocco where he designed, self-funded and built several … [Read more...]
