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Collapsing Utopia: Massinissa Selmani’s “1000 Villages” and the Failed Algerian Agrarian Revolution of 1973

November 7, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Africa, drawing, politics

The Supreme Achievement – Call for Students Contributions

July 3, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media, Technology Tagged With: ideal cities, microcities, politics, superstudio, workshop

Monopoly before Monopoly: A Board Game as a Critical Device

January 7, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

  "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...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art-2, politics, world weird web

“Must it Stay that Way?” Critical Posters by Gunter Rambow (1971)

November 29, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, Germany, illustrations, politics

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

“Is all Architecture Truly Political?” A response to Quilian Riano by Ross Wolfe

November 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, politics, world weird web

The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project

October 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, fashion, literature, people, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

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

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

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

“Ekümenopolis: City Without Limits” (a Documentary Film About Istanbul )

June 6, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, movies, politics, psychogeographies, social, 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

Francesco Chiacchio, Illustrations for Emile Zola’s Germinal

April 2, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: illustrations, politics, world weird web

Soviet Abstract Architecture Blueprints (mid-1920s to early-1930s)

February 25, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ross Wolfe just published, on his Charnel House, these beautiful blueprints by early Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, politics, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

“House Taken Over”, by Julio Cortazar, (1944) illustrated by Juan Fresan (1969)

February 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 11 Comments

Thanks to writer China Miéville (author of very good "The City & the City") and to his article about the "50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Dysfunctional Plans, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, literature, politics, psychogeographies, review, social, world weird web

Microcities’ “The Field” at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC

February 2, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Hello and sorry for the long hiatus, due to overwork at Microcities, lately. This quick post is to thank friends at Think Space and Adrian Lahoud, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, our works, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, 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

Salaryman 6 – A Modern Tale of Overwork in Japan

November 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Salaryman #6, a short 2002 movie, is a tale of modern life in Japan. A man is seen sprawled on the floor in an office; his colleagues help him to his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Review: The Draftery Fig. 02 – Narrative Exhortations

November 8, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

It is now clear that after some years of normative drawings and shiny renderings like the ones defining the aesthetics of a Mark magazine, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, politics, review, visions, world weird web

Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture

October 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Some days ago I've been invited as part of the final jury for Pierre-Antoine Marraud (a former student of our atelier at ESA) diploma. This is his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, information graphics, literature, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

# OCCUPY BIENNALE # COMMON BATTLE GROUND

August 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

If you're in Venice tomorrow August 28th, pay a visit to the Sale Docks (Magazzini del Sale, Dorsoduro 265, near Punta della Dogana). Among other … [Read more...]

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

A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)

August 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

Kindly offered by the artist and architect Maurizio Cilli through his facebook account and mostly based upon the Game of the Goose. This collection … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: dont do this at work, illustrations, italians, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, world weird web

Mark Lombardi’s Narrative Structures and Other Mappings of Power Relations

August 22, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 12 Comments

(...) the great question today is the question of globalization, the question of the unity of the world. Globalization proposes to us an abstract … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Art, form of form, information graphics, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, world weird web

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