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...]
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...]
Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)
Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [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...]
Oil on Canvas Works by Garcia / Frankowski
Recent architectural paintings by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski. Garcia and Frankowsky are architects, artists and writers based in Beijing … [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...]
Ugo La Pietra on Venice (1982)
"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...]
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...]
Barents Lessons: Teaching and Research in Architecture
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...]
Architecture Without Humans
Factory Futures, (Architecture Without Humans), a studio of AA Visiting School at Ivrea, directed by Tommaso Franzolini, Maria S. Giudici, Pierre … [Read more...]
Éva Le Roi’s “Conditionnement”
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...]
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...]
Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse
Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]
Deserto Rosso #0 – ‘Festschrift per gli 80 anni di Peter Eisenman’
"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...]
Relational Cities, by Fabio Alessandro Fusco
Fabio Alessandro Fusco, Italian architect and teacher, made a set of drawings entitled "Relational Cities". The Relational Cities are conceptual … [Read more...]
Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20
Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]
# OCCUPY BIENNALE # COMMON BATTLE GROUND
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...]
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...]
Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan
The architect and city planner Oscar Newman, better known for his dreadful "Defensible space theory", (pdf here) also fostered in 1969 the bizarre … [Read more...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
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