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Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)

February 23, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection, Technology, Territories, When Photography Catches Time Tagged With: axonometric projection, Landscape, photography, Urban

A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).

June 24, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing", a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Representation: Axonometric projection, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: analogy, grid, Urban

Kon Wajiro’s Archaeology of Present Times

December 10, 2017 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Japanese architect, sociologist, and educator Kon Wajiro was living in Tokyo when the violent 1923 earthquake occurred. With his students, he visited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories, Visual Atlas Tagged With: drawings, sketches, taxonomy, Urban

Reinventing Suburban Reality: “Constructed” by Pawel Nolbert

October 24, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

"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...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: Collage, graphic design, photography, Urban

Civilization and its Discontents According to Ben Tolman

March 8, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Housing the Multitude, Territories Tagged With: city, civilization, drawings, ink, Urban

Tokyo-X: an “Anti-Compositive and Anti-Typological” Project by Andrea Branzi

March 3, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: meta-project, radical, Urban

Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)

December 5, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Fields, Territories Tagged With: bourgeois myth, city, koolhaas, Urban

Walls as Rooms /4 : The Hakka Tulou (Community Housing for Equals)

February 1, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, the Tulou are large fortified buildings representing a specific and traditional housing type of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Housing the Multitude, Territories, Walls as Rooms Tagged With: China, community, form of form, hakka tulou, housing, settlement, Urban

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