Jun Kumaori is a Japanese illustrator based in Kyoto. Her works place a solitary character with manga-like features, in the middle of a very detailed … [Read more...]
Reinventing Suburban Reality: “Constructed” by Pawel Nolbert
"Constructed" is a series of photos by Polish graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer Pawel Nolbert. A selection of the artist's own travel … [Read more...]
Civilization and its Discontents According to Ben Tolman
The hyper-detailed ink-on-paper drawings by Ben Tolman depict the built environment and the effects it has on the people who inhabit it. Cities … [Read more...]
Tokyo-X: an “Anti-Compositive and Anti-Typological” Project by Andrea Branzi
Tokyo City X (1990) is a meta-project, the design of a theoretical city based on a single huge building of 800.000 sqm in the Tokyo bay. Commissioned … [Read more...]
Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)
Now that the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale finally came to an end, we think it is the right time to publish this interesting short essay by … [Read more...]
Walls as Rooms /4 : The Hakka Tulou (Community Housing for Equals)
Mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, the Tulou are large fortified buildings representing a specific and traditional … [Read more...]
Edges of Urban Space: Border Paintings by Koen van den Broek
Koen van den Broek is a Belgian painter. Recurring subjects in his works are close-ups of banal urban landscapes: borders, cracks, … [Read more...]
