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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

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

Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)

January 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Tango is certainly a prodigy of pre-digital animation. The experimental short video shows thirty-six characters interacting in one room, moving in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: animations, electronic arts, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, 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

Images of a Changing World: Settai Komura (1887–1940)

December 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Settai Komura (1887–1940) was a refined yet prolific Shin Hanga artist. As a kabuki stage set designer, he produced around 200 works. He also was an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, japanism, psychogeographies, 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

“Taking Measures Across the American Landscape” by James Corner and Alex McLean

October 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

James Corner, internationally renowned landscape architect and forerunner of the landscape urbanism movement, was author in 1996 of "Taking Measures … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, land art, psychogeographies, 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

The Territory as an Abstract Cartography

October 10, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Art, information graphics, land art, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

Atemporality at Work *

October 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

* Kazys Varnelis couldn't possibly better resume this series of collage drawings recently featured on Archive of Affinities: "Chief among these is … [Read more...]

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

Relational Cities, by Fabio Alessandro Fusco

September 4, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Fabio Alessandro Fusco, Italian architect and teacher, made a set of drawings entitled "Relational Cities". The Relational Cities are conceptual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, psychogeographies, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20

September 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, information graphics, literature, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, review, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Chris Marker’s Junkopia

August 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Passed away the last month, Chris Marker will be mostly remembered for his 1962 film La Jetée, a post-apocalyptic tale of time travels constructed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: movies, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, 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

Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself

August 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Two days ago Socks featured the work of Mas Yendo. Thanks to Stefano Massa (@doctorcrowd on Twitter) we can update the post with a video interview of … [Read more...]

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

Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times

August 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

“What I speculate in my work is that new technologies will play an important part in how architects embrace new ideas. The advancement of seemingly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, industrial design, past futures, psychogeographies, social, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan

August 18, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

The architect and city planner Oscar Newman, better known for his dreadful "Defensible space theory", (pdf here) also fostered in 1969 the bizarre … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, land art, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

About Metropolis

August 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, literature, magazines, movies, past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

The Walled City of Shibam, a ‘Manhattan of the desert’

August 12, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 16 Comments

Sometimes ago we wrote about the walled city of Kowloon, a spontaneous, unregulated urban development near Hong Kong. Whereas that one was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, information graphics, maps, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

A False Paris Outside Paris: a ‘City’ Created to be Bombed

August 11, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

With exactly the same title, on 6 November 1920, the story of Sham Paris was revealed by The Illustrated London News. Located in the northern … [Read more...]

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

dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)

August 9, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"On the 5th of september 2001, the taliban confiscated thousands of reels of film from the Afghan Film Archive and burned them on the outskirts of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, movies, politics, psychogeographies, social, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]

August 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, literature, movies, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, Sounds, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

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