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The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Representation: Axonometric projection, Representation: Models, Technology Tagged With: constructivism, Lenin, leonidov, Soviet Architecture, Technology

Fireworks at Parc de la Villette, Paris, by Bernard Tschumi, 1992

July 1, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

In 1974, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi developed the theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. Fostering a fierce reaction against the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, Technology, visions

Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves

January 16, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 7 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Culture, Territories Tagged With: form of form, information graphics, Technology, world weird web

Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army

January 10, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: psychogeographies, Sounds, Technology, war, world weird web

Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture

January 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

    Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, form of form, Sounds, Technology, world weird web

A Building is an Island is a Building: The Île Seguin Renault Factory in Paris

December 29, 2013 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

In 1919 Louis Renault, a talented engineer and head of the « Société des Automobiles Renault» began to acquire the "Île Seguin", an island in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, industrial design, Technology, world weird web

Flying Boats /2 – Latécoère 521 “Lieutenant de Vasseau Paris”

November 30, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  The interwar period must have been very exciting for an aviation enthusiast. The aircraft industry developed so rapidly that only twenty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: illustrations, Technology

Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)

November 29, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

  In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]

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

The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project

October 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, fashion, literature, people, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)

October 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: land art, past futures, photography, Technology

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 61 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

When the Earth Began Looking at Itself: the Landsat Program

July 22, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Technology, Territories Tagged With: psychogeographies, Technology, visions

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

Computer Graphics’ Archaeology: the HP 9845C Demo

June 29, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, industrial design, Technology, virtual 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

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

Architecture Without Humans

April 1, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Factory Futures, (Architecture Without Humans), a studio of AA Visiting School at Ivrea, directed by Tommaso Franzolini, Maria S. Giudici, Pierre … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

March 12, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, movies, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird web

How the House looked like in 2001

February 6, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Sorry for the misleading title, this is really Walter Cronkite in 1967 explaining how the house of the future would have looked like. (From the CBS … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, visions, world weird web

Microcities’ “The Field” at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC

February 2, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Hello and sorry for the long hiatus, due to overwork at Microcities, lately. This quick post is to thank friends at Think Space and Adrian Lahoud, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, our works, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, world weird web

Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)

January 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Tango is certainly a prodigy of pre-digital animation. The experimental short video shows thirty-six characters interacting in one room, moving in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: animations, electronic arts, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse

November 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, japanism, satire, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

“Don’t you think there is enough anxiety at present?” The 1982 Debate Between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman

November 6, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 7 Comments

CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The thing that strikes me about your friend's building -- if I understood you correctly -- is that somehow in some intentional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, magazines, past futures, people, Technology, 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

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