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Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects

December 8, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto del … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Chiattoni, Futurismo, past futures, urban chronicles, visions

Adolf Loos, Tristan Tzara House, Paris (1925-1926)

November 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

The house for the Romanian poet and Dadaist Tristan Tzara and his wife, the painter Knitson, was designed and built by the Austrian architect Adolf … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, House, Paris, urban chronicles

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

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

Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)

September 7, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, past futures, politics, urban chronicles, world weird web

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 World Was Flat, Paintings by Chris Ballantyne

July 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Desolate settings, impoverished suburban environments and depopulated neighborhoods are the privileged subjects in Chris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, psychogeographies, urban chronicles

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

Oil on Canvas Works by Garcia / Frankowski

June 26, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Recent architectural paintings by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski. Garcia and Frankowsky are architects, artists and writers based in Beijing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, psychogeographies, urban chronicles, 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

Ugo La Pietra on Venice (1982)

June 2, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"I pay the ticket, I enter, do a tour of things to see, so I go: this is the time in Venice, a time equal to the one that everyone uses when entering … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, 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

Barents Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture

April 7, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Laba (Laboratory Basel), a satellite studio of the Institut d’architecture et de la ville (IA) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, information graphics, land art, psychogeographies, review, urban chronicles, visions, 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

Éva Le Roi’s “Conditionnement”

February 10, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Éva Le Roi is a very talented young artist and illustrator living and working in Bruxelles. She's recently collaborated with the Luxemburg Pavilion … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, psychogeographies, urban chronicles, visions, 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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, past futures, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

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

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

Deserto Rosso #0 – ‘Festschrift per gli 80 anni di Peter Eisenman’

October 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"I have to think that all that happens to me is my life" (Monica Vitti in "The Red Desert") A "Festschrift" is a celebratory book made in honour of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, people, review, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Relational Cities, by Fabio Alessandro Fusco

September 4, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Fabio Alessandro Fusco, Italian architect and teacher, made a set of drawings entitled "Relational Cities". The Relational Cities are conceptual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, psychogeographies, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20

September 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, Art, information graphics, literature, magazines, past futures, psychogeographies, review, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

# OCCUPY BIENNALE # COMMON BATTLE GROUND

August 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

If you're in Venice tomorrow August 28th, pay a visit to the Sale Docks (Magazzini del Sale, Dorsoduro 265, near Punta della Dogana). Among other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, politics, urban chronicles, world weird web

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