We've never experienced as much nostalgia as in these last few years. Yet we're not only talking about the nostalgia for a (usually) … [Read more...]
Palestine 1880-1890 (Coloured Photochromes from the Herzog Collection)
The following is a selection from the Herzog Foundation's collection of 19th Century vintage photography from the Middle East. The images … [Read more...]
Jean Prouve’s Experimental Prefabricated Houses
Quick, easily-assembled and affordable, the prefabricated houses designed by Jean Prouvé never reached the mass production they have been … [Read more...]
Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)
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...]
Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects
In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto … [Read more...]
Walls as Rooms /3: Henri Sauvage as a Model for MVRDV
Bringing some minor changes implied by the demands of our time, today we could ironically build a complex of the same type as the one Sauvage built 50 … [Read more...]
Landscape as Cartography: When Giant Concrete Arrows were Scattered Across the American Territory
Flying in the 20s had to be a thrilling experience, indeed. In the absence of radio communication or radar technology, pilots engaged in … [Read more...]
Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)
In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]
Peugeot Skyscraper in Buenos Aires, a Project by Maurizio Sacripanti (1961)
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...]
Agnes Denes: Early Philosophical Drawings, Monoprints, and Sculptures
Agnes Denes is a difficult artist to categorize. Born in Budapest, (Hungary) in 1931, raised in Sweden and educated in the United States, since the … [Read more...]
Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)
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...]
Peter Tillessen, 40 years of Nuclear Fission (2012)
40 Jahre Kernspaltung (40 years of Nuclear Fission) is a fake scientific work pretending to illustrate the origins and the characteristics of nuclear … [Read more...]
Joe Colombo, Total Furnishing Unit (1971)
"The possibilities presented by the extraordinary development of audiovisual processes are enormous…… Distances will no longer have much importance; … [Read more...]
Bruno Taut: The City Crown (1919)
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...]
“Before and After Science” and the Eno/Schmidt collaboration
According to Wikipedia, Peter Schmidt was "a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia … [Read more...]
Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)
[This is the first of a series of posts featuring short essays on and by German architect, city planner, and author Bruno Taut (1880-1938).] In the … [Read more...]
Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)
Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [Read more...]
John Hejduk: The Riga Project (1987)
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...]
The Boetti lesson (Searching for One Hotel in Kabul): Mario García Torres’s “Have you Ever Seen the Snow?”
"I am not intending to write history. I am trying to call attention to some interesting marginal stories that I think could be relevant today… I hope … [Read more...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“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...]
Visual arts and Space of Involvement (Savioli and Natalini on students’ works) – 1966/67
"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...]
The Creation of the World According to Moses by Wilhelm & Jan Goeree, 1690
(Originally titled: De Schepping der Wereldt Volgens de Beschryving van Mozes) Via: Willigula and Invisible … [Read more...]
Confusion of Tongues: The Construction of the Tower of Babel
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...]
The Mnemosyne Atlas, Aby Warburg – The Absorption of the Expressive Values of the Past
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...]
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