In 1974, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi developed the theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. Fostering a fierce reaction against the … [Read more...]
Techno-Human Utopia: 4 Projects in Berlin by Ludwig Leo
Recognition for Ludwig Leo only came in recent years. The architect of few completed buildings, assistant of O.M.Ungers in his office and at … [Read more...]
Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves
The stick charts were the main tool the Marshallese used to navigate on canoe across the islands of the Pacific Ocean, until WWII. Lacking … [Read more...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
A Building is an Island is a Building: The Île Seguin Renault Factory in Paris
In 1919 Louis Renault, a talented engineer and head of the « Société des Automobiles Renault» began to aquire the "Île Seguin", an island in … [Read more...]
Sound Mirrors and Other Sensory Expansion Devices: From Wartime Technology to Radical Art Practices
A sound mirror (or acoustic mirror) is a device employed to reflect and concentrate sound waves. An experimentation on large scale acoustic … [Read more...]
Landscape as Cartography: When Giant Concrete Arrows were Scattered Across the American Territory
Flying in the 20s had to be a thrilling experience, indeed. In the absence of radio communication or radar technology, pilots engaged in … [Read more...]
Flying Boats /2 – Latécoère 521 “Lieutenant de Vasseau Paris”
The interwar period must have been very exciting for an aviation enthusiast. The aircraft industry developed so rapidly that only twenty … [Read more...]
Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)
In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]
Violating Matter: Works by Arcangelo Sassolino
“Creating, I ask myself: why not try and strain the materials to the limit of their resistance? Why not force to the limit the … [Read more...]
A Line in the Landscape: Craig Ellwood’s 1977 Inhabited Bridge
Craig Ellwood was a construction company created by Jon Nelson Burke and three partners in the 1940's in Los Angeles. The name was … [Read more...]
The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project
Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of the first … [Read more...]
Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)
This moon atlas was published by L'Observatoire de Paris in 1899 and edited by Maurice (Moritz) Loewy. The following are the Cover, the Title Page … [Read more...]
Peter Tillessen, 40 years of Nuclear Fission (2012)
40 Jahre Kernspaltung (40 years of Nuclear Fission) is a fake scientific work pretending to illustrate the origins and the characteristics of nuclear … [Read more...]
Joe Colombo, Total Furnishing Unit (1971)
"The possibilities presented by the extraordinary development of audiovisual processes are enormous…… Distances will no longer have much importance; … [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...]
Signal to Noise (Software 1) by Casey Reas
Software art by Casey Reas. "Through defining emergent networks and layered instructions, (Reas) has defined a unique area of visual experience … [Read more...]
“Over Time” by Jonathan Zawada
"Over Time" : another series of painting works by Jonathan Zawada, after its landscapes. Every two days we create as much information as we … [Read more...]
When the Earth Began Looking at Itself: the Landsat Program
When the first images were transmitted from the Landsat 1, only days after the small unmanned satellite was launched in 1972, cartography and Earth … [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...]
Computer Graphics’ Archaeology: the HP 9845C Demo
The Hp 9845C , introduced in 1981, was the top-of-the-line model of the 9845 series, it was the very first HP computer supporting color and it was … [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...]
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...]
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