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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Architecture Without Humans
Factory Futures, (Architecture Without Humans), a studio of AA Visiting School at Ivrea, directed by Tommaso Franzolini, Maria S. Giudici, Pierre … [Read more...]
Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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...]
How the House looked like in 2001
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...]
Hoppla Kultur (50 pictures to the glory of our time) by A. Paul Weber
Ambiguous figure in German history and art, Andreas Paul Weber, prominent lithographer, draftsman and painter, was imprisoned during the Nazi regime … [Read more...]
Grant Wood and Regionalism (Visions on Rural Life and Work)
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...]
“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...]
The Territory as an Abstract Cartography
Waiting to find some time to write a more extensive post, we leave you with the marvelous details of early geological maps from the 19th and 20th … [Read more...]
Atemporality at Work *
* Kazys Varnelis couldn't possibly better resume this series of collage drawings recently featured on Archive of Affinities: "Chief among these is … [Read more...]
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