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Ben Shahn, Untitled Drawing Series, (1948)

November 27, 2017 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, the Hickmans were one among many African Americans families looking for affordable housing in Chicago. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: drawing, segregation, social

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

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 60 Comments

“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, literature, magazines, past futures, people, photography, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Confusion of Tongues: The Construction of the Tower of Babel

July 9, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, past futures, people, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, 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

“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

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...]

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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

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

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 5 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

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

“Utopia”, “The Mediatory City” and “The Struggle for Housing”: Three Issues by Gruppo Strum (1972)

August 13, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Low popular culture and social activism blend together in this magazine of three issues by Gruppo Strum, commissioned by Moma in 1972. The three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, politics, satire, social, urban chronicles, 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

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: Bomb Ponds, by Vandy Rattana

August 3, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"There is a Khmer proverb that says: you can hear something a thousand times and not know it, yet if you see it with your eyes just once, you know." … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: past futures, photography, politics, psychogeographies, social

There’s nothing you can do about it: Short history of the Architect and the Robot, by Gérard Courtieux (1969)

July 23, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

From one of the most impressive issues ever of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Nouvel Environnement de l'Homme, 145/1969), a revealing article about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, information graphics, magazines, past futures, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

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

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