For ten year a sunken living space in St. Pölten (Austria) has been allowed to age naturally with the elements. In this public installation … [Read more...]
Palestine 1880-1890 (Coloured Photochromes from the Herzog Collection)
The following is a selection from the Herzog Foundation's collection of 19th Century vintage photography from the Middle East. The images … [Read more...]
Housing the Isolated Individual: ‘Eda Apartments’ by Ryue Nishizawa and ‘White U’ by Toyo Ito
The Eda Apartments building (2002-in progress), by Ryue Nishizawa, partner of Kazuyo Sejima in SANAA, is a collective housing … [Read more...]
Réflexions Faites, by Romain Trystram
Romain Trystram is a freelance illustrator. His series "Réflexions Faites" consists of digital illustrations of a nocturnal cityscape where … [Read more...]
Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects
In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto … [Read more...]
Edgar Bąk’s Posters for Warsaw’s Nowy Teatr
Edgar Bąk is a graphic designer, illustrator and lecturer, living and working in Poland. The artist trademark are simple geometric shapes … [Read more...]
Adolf Loos, Tristan Tzara House, Paris (1925-1926)
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...]
Peeping in the Suburbs: 1970’s works by Dan Graham, Venturi/Scott Brown and Stephen Shore
The following are artistic and research attempts to investigate the American suburban neighborhoods and their inhabitants, in order to reveal their … [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...]
Clay Ketter’s Gulf Coast Slabs and other Works
Clay Ketter, former carpenter, is an artist who works on different media such as photography, flat sculptures, installations and three-dimensional … [Read more...]
Tommy Hilding’s Paintings (2012-2013)
Concrete, alienation and longing are the subject of the recent works of Tommy Hilding, a painter living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. His … [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...]
The Boetti lesson (Searching for One Hotel in Kabul): Mario García Torres’s “Have you Ever Seen the Snow?”
"I am not intending to write history. I am trying to call attention to some interesting marginal stories that I think could be relevant today… I hope … [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...]
When the World Was Flat, Paintings by Chris Ballantyne
Desolate settings, impoverished suburban environments and depopulated neighborhoods are the privileged subjects in Chris … [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...]
Narrative Cities, by Thien K. Nguyen Architecture
Urban imagery by T.N. Architecture (Thien K. Nguyen), from Providence, RI. "The narrative cities are explorations into urban systems that are … [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...]
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...]
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