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...]
Across the Space Frontier, (1952)
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...]
KRIEGSMASCHINE, BY THNMD – 2012
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...]
Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia
"Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent—a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident—and that … [Read more...]
Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code
Stuxnet is the first computer virus (precisely a "worm") created to target, study, infect and subvert only industrial systems, namely … [Read more...]
The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei
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...]
LUFTSCHLOSS, (Castle in the Air) by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk
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...]
Comparing Urbanization
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...]
Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia
Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]
How Big Really?
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...]
Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)
Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]
Ugo La Pietra – Per Oggi Basta (“That’s it for today”) and Other Videos
Ugo La Pietra, artist and architect, beginned in the 60's his activity of research and experimentation (through performances, drawings, photography, … [Read more...]
Hipcescu. Come and discover the magic
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...]
Thomas Carpentier’s “L’homme, mesures de toutes choses”
Thomas Carpentier's graduation project at ESA questions the normatization of the human body proportions introduced by early Modernist Architectural … [Read more...]
Technologic wizardries at Paris 1900’s Exposition Universelle
Electric machines and light installations, mechanic sidewalks, ramps and escalators, metropolitan lines and hot air ballons were among the urban scale … [Read more...]
Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris
This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]
Rear Window: dissecting and recreating a movie’s scenario
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...]
Mapping the flowing of wind
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...]
ScanLAB Projects’ Bartlett Summer Show 2010 (pioneering 3d scanning)
Led by Matthew Shaw and William Trosell, the London-based ScanLAB Projects specializes in large size 3d scanning for objects, buildings and … [Read more...]
Hell is Real! (The miracle of Fluo-colours, by Dimitris Polychroniadis)
While on la Periferia Domestica (a constant and very recommended reading) we stumbled upon a post about a miniature satire by Dimitris … [Read more...]
Utopia Factory Abraxas / Terrorism Museum, by Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon
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...]
The very corporeal infrastructure behind the immaterial network: history of the international submarine cables
Alfonso Desiderio, a journalist of Italian geopolitics magazine Limes, recently published an interesting piece on the submarine cables infrastructure … [Read more...]
Cartographic Regression
Here's how the territory of Palestine has shrinked and borders have fragmented from 1917 to present day. A cartographic essay on GOOD. Thanks, Ethel, … [Read more...]
Taxonomies of Transition: Urban Segregation Maps by Bill Rankin and Eric Fisher
"A taxonomy of transition", (2009) by radical cartographer Bill Rankin is a visual essay on how racial boundaries mark the neighborhoods of a city … [Read more...]
