«Maybe for the first time in the modern era we had men inhabit a monument. Those men, the poorest ones of poor Algeria, understood that: it … [Read more...]
Agnes Denes: Early Philosophical Drawings, Monoprints, and Sculptures
Agnes Denes is a difficult artist to categorize. Born in Budapest, (Hungary) in 1931, raised in Sweden and educated in the United States, since the … [Read more...]
Bruno Taut: The City Crown (1919)
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...]
Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)
[This is the first of a series of posts featuring short essays on and by German architect, city planner, and author Bruno Taut (1880-1938).] In the … [Read more...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“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...]
Confusion of Tongues: The Construction of the Tower of Babel
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...]
Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972
In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers, equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]
“Ekümenopolis: City Without Limits” (a Documentary Film About Istanbul )
"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...]
Xavier Delory’s Habitat (2006-2008)
Xavier Delory, born 1973 in Belgium, is a photographer exploring the "landscape in mutation and the drifts of modern man". This is his cycle … [Read more...]
The Diesel Era Lithographs of Louis Lozowick (1920’s to 1940’s)
The Diesel era immortalized in the powerful lithographs of Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973). Born in the Russian Empire, … [Read more...]
“Peace” Lines: A Selection of Walls Dividing Regions
Some days ago, Italian news website il Post selected and published the photographs of a number of still-standing or just-erected physical barriers … [Read more...]
Micro-Apartments : Ballardian Living Conditions in Hong Kong City
100,000 of Hong Kong City labourers live in sub-divided apartment units averaging 40 square feet (3.7 sqm), with rents standing up at nearly $1,300 a … [Read more...]
“House Taken Over”, by Julio Cortazar, (1944) illustrated by Juan Fresan (1969)
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...]
Omega Suites (1991-1998), The Architecture of Capital Punishment, by Lucinda Devlin
Lucinda Devlin started in 1991 a series of photographs of gas chambers, injection rooms, electric chairs, and death row cells in the rural United … [Read more...]
Hoppla Kultur (50 pictures to the glory of our time) by A. Paul Weber
Ambiguous figure in German history and art, Andreas Paul Weber, prominent lithographer, draftsman and painter, was imprisoned during the Nazi regime … [Read more...]
Grant Wood and Regionalism (Visions on Rural Life and Work)
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...]
Salaryman 6 – A Modern Tale of Overwork in Japan
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...]
A Brief History of Power, by Tobias Revell
From the last series of projects of RCA's Design Interaction 2012 site (very recommended), A Brief History of Time, by Tobias Revell, shows the … [Read more...]
Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture
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...]
A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)
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...]
Mark Lombardi’s Narrative Structures and Other Mappings of Power Relations
(...) 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...]
Sophia Martinek’s The Worker
"In this story I wanted to tell the story of a single man. In general I am interested in the mundane everyday life, the routine and unexciting … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself
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...]
Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times
“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...]
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