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Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)

December 8, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Jivya Soma Mashe is a central figure in Indian tribal art, as he was the one who turned the Warli tribal art from a predominantly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Art, past futures, world weird web

Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects

December 8, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto del … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Chiattoni, Futurismo, past futures, urban chronicles, visions

Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)

November 29, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

  In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, world weird web

Peugeot Skyscraper in Buenos Aires, a Project by Maurizio Sacripanti (1961)

November 15, 2013 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Maurizio Scripanti (1916-1996) was an original figure in Italian post-war architectural panorama. You maybe remember another project of him that we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, past futures

Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)

October 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This moon atlas was published by L'Observatoire de Paris in 1899 and edited by Maurice (Moritz) Loewy. The following are the Cover, the Title Page … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: land art, past futures, photography, Technology

Bruno Taut: The City Crown (1919)

September 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Second part of our series of posts on Bruno Taut, after "Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)" This is a translated version of part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, past futures, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

“Before and After Science” and the Eno/Schmidt collaboration

September 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

According to Wikipedia, Peter Schmidt was "a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, past futures, psychogeographies, Sounds, visions, world weird web

Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)

September 7, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, past futures, politics, urban chronicles, world weird web

John Hejduk: The Riga Project (1987)

September 5, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is the catalog of an exhibition held at University of the Arts, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and the Great Hall, Nov. 20-Dec. 22, 1987. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 55 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

Visual arts and Space of Involvement (Savioli and Natalini on students’ works) – 1966/67

August 8, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"Per un nuovo rapporto tra l'utente ed il suo spazio" ("For a new relation between the user and his space") and "Arti visive e spazio di … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

The Creation of the World According to Moses by Wilhelm & Jan Goeree, 1690

July 25, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

(Originally titled: De Schepping der Wereldt Volgens de Beschryving van Mozes) Via: Willigula and Invisible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: form of form, illustrations, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

Confusion of Tongues: The Construction of the Tower of Babel

July 9, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, people, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

The Mnemosyne Atlas, Aby Warburg – The Absorption of the Expressive Values of the Past

June 16, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 7 Comments

Some days ago, Flavien Menu from N-D-L-R published a long post including many images and the introductory text of the "Mnemosyne Atlas" by art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Art, Art-2, information graphics, past futures, psychogeographies, 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

Architecture Without Humans

April 1, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Factory Futures, (Architecture Without Humans), a studio of AA Visiting School at Ivrea, directed by Tommaso Franzolini, Maria S. Giudici, Pierre … [Read more...]

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

Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

March 12, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, movies, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird web

How the House looked like in 2001

February 6, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Sorry for the misleading title, this is really Walter Cronkite in 1967 explaining how the house of the future would have looked like. (From the CBS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, world weird web

Hoppla Kultur (50 pictures to the glory of our time) by A. Paul Weber

December 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Ambiguous figure in German history and art, Andreas Paul Weber, prominent lithographer, draftsman and painter, was imprisoned during the Nazi regime … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

Grant Wood and Regionalism (Visions on Rural Life and Work)

December 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, past futures, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles, 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 6 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

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