Massinissa Selmani, an Algerian artist born in 1980, began his studies in art in Tours, France after obtaining a degree in computer science. Today, he … [Read more...]
The Supreme Achievement – Call for Students Contributions
CALL FOR STUDENT CONTRIBUTORS FOR ‘THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT’ Workshop at CAMPO (www.campo.space), Rome, September 5 to September 12. Apply until July … [Read more...]
Christoph Steffner: Zimmer (Room) – (1997-2007)
For ten year a sunken living space in St. Pölten (Austria) has been allowed to age naturally with the elements. In this public installation … [Read more...]
An Exploration of the Generic: Allan McCollum’s “Over Ten Thousand Individual Works”
Allan McCollum (1944) is an American artist, born in Los Angeles and currently based in New York, who spent his career investigating the … [Read more...]
Monopoly before Monopoly: A Board Game as a Critical Device
"Children of nine or ten years (...) learn that the quickest way to accumulate wealth and gain power is to get all the land they can in the … [Read more...]
Walls as Stage: The Work of Robin Rhode
Robin Rhode is a South African artist currently based in Berlin. Throughout his career, he discovered a playful way to address social concerns about … [Read more...]
‘Rejoice! Our times are Intolerable’. Jenny Holzer and her ’15 Inflammatory Essays’ 1979-82
In her early years as an artist, Jenny Holzer began working with text as a tool to manipulate the language of pop culture while producing … [Read more...]
“Must it Stay that Way?” Critical Posters by Gunter Rambow (1971)
In 1971, German graphic designer and photographer Gunter Rambow produced a series of posters tackling the failing realm of urban planning and building … [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...]
“Is all Architecture Truly Political?” A response to Quilian Riano by Ross Wolfe
Gunter Rambow, “Utopie Dynamit” (1976) If a mantra could define present-day architectural debate, that would surely be the self-assertive claim that … [Read more...]
The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project
Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of the first … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972
In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers, equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]
“Ekümenopolis: City Without Limits” (a Documentary Film About Istanbul )
"If cities are a reflection of the society, what can we say about ourselves by looking at Istanbul? What kind of city are we leaving behind for future … [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...]
“Peace” Lines: A Selection of Walls Dividing Regions
Some days ago, Italian news website il Post selected and published the photographs of a number of still-standing or just-erected physical barriers … [Read more...]
Francesco Chiacchio, Illustrations for Emile Zola’s Germinal
Friend and illustrator Francesco Chiacchio has created the illustrations for a version of Emile Zola's Germinal by , curated by Daniele Garbuglia for … [Read more...]
Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World
"...For the world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it. That is, the … [Read more...]
Micro-Apartments : Ballardian Living Conditions in Hong Kong City
100,000 of Hong Kong City labourers live in sub-divided apartment units averaging 40 square feet (3.7 sqm), with rents standing up at nearly $1,300 a … [Read more...]
Soviet Abstract Architecture Blueprints (mid-1920s to early-1930s)
Ross Wolfe just published, on his Charnel House, these beautiful blueprints by early Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, … [Read more...]
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