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The Future of Architecture and other Collages by Nils-Ole Lund

August 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Danish architect, teacher and collage-artist, author of Collage Architecture in 1990, Nils-Ole Lund's fosters the idea that modern architecture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, illustrations, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Otto Dix, Der Krieg (The War) – 1924

August 4, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

First World War was such a traumatic experience for Otto Dix, (he served as a machine-gunner in the Western front from 1914 to 1918) that he later … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, illustrations, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: A Brief History of Collapses, by Mariam Ghani

July 31, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Starting with this post we dedicate our reviews to artworks that impressed us in Kassel's quinquennial art exhibition dOCUMENTA 13, directed, this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, psychogeographies, urban chronicles

Across the Space Frontier, (1952)

July 22, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

A 50's publication on the space age, before 'real' space age was even started. Among the illustrations and cutaways of space stations, rockets and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, past futures, psychogeographies, social, Technology, virtual chronicles

KRIEGSMASCHINE, BY THNMD – 2012

July 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Our friend THNMD, a very active internet user, just got her Master Degree of Advanced Studies in Spatial Design ZFH at the ZHDK. Congratulating … [Read more...]

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

Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia

July 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

"Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent—a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident—and that … [Read more...]

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

Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code

July 17, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Stuxnet is the first computer virus (precisely a "worm") created to target, study, infect and subvert only industrial systems, namely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: politics, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird itself

The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei

July 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

An epicenter of polemics since its birth, the Centre Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Atlas for the Blind, 1837

July 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

From the spectacular David Rumsey Map Collection, the 1837 "Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind", embossed heavy paper … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: illustrations, maps, paperworks, psychogeographies, world weird web

LUFTSCHLOSS, (Castle in the Air) by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk

July 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Luftschloss (Castle in the air) is an installation realized by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk on Alice-Solomon-Platz in Berlin Hellersdorf during the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, psychogeographies

Comparing Urbanization

June 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Berkeley's  Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: information graphics, maps, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles

Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia

May 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions

How Big Really?

May 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

BBC has just released "How Big Really?", a site that allows for the overlay of the dimension of an event onto another geographical territory. That … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Territories Tagged With: information graphics, maps, politics, psychogeographies, urban chronicles

Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)

May 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles

Ugo La Pietra – Per Oggi Basta (“That’s it for today”) and Other Videos

May 23, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ugo La Pietra, artist and architect, beginned in the 60's his activity of research and experimentation (through performances, drawings, photography, … [Read more...]

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

Hipcescu. Come and discover the magic

May 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hipcescu, ‘The city of Thousand Suns’, is spoof urbanism. Conceived by an architect, urban planner and arguably a despot, the city is the result of a … [Read more...]

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

Thomas Carpentier’s “L’homme, mesures de toutes choses”

May 16, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Thomas Carpentier's graduation project at ESA questions the normatization of the human body proportions introduced by early Modernist Architectural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, politics, psychogeographies, satire, visions, world weird web

Technologic wizardries at Paris 1900’s Exposition Universelle

April 30, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Electric machines and light installations, mechanic sidewalks, ramps and escalators, metropolitan lines and hot air ballons were among the urban scale … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird itself

Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris

April 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, maps, past futures, photography, psychogeographies, social, Technology, world weird web

Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario

April 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Back to Socks from Rome and the lecture! We remember, from our time as students at the architecture school, a typical lecture in "Descriptive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, movies, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles

Mapping the flowing of wind

March 29, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Wind Map live-traces the flowing of wind across the territory of the United States. This delicately moving "fur" delineates the uncharted land of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: maps, psychogeographies, Technology, world weird web

ScanLAB Projects’ Bartlett Summer Show 2010 (pioneering 3d scanning)

March 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Led by Matthew Shaw and William Trosell, the London-based ScanLAB Projects specializes in large size 3d scanning for objects, buildings and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, information graphics, maps, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Hell is Real! (The miracle of Fluo-colours, by Dimitris Polychroniadis)

March 16, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

While on la Periferia Domestica (a constant and very recommended reading) we stumbled upon a post about a miniature satire by Dimitris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, politics, psychogeographies, satire, world weird web

Utopia Factory Abraxas / Terrorism Museum, by Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon

March 11, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Come back home right after a fast yet inspiring chat with Paris based artist Stéphane Degoutin at the 104, I and Mariabruna were curious enough to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, information graphics, politics, psychogeographies, satire, Technology, urban chronicles, visions

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