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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

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 60 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...]

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Computer Graphics’ Archaeology: the HP 9845C Demo

June 29, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Hp 9845C , introduced in 1981, was the top-of-the-line model of the 9845 series, it was the very first HP computer supporting color and it was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, electronic arts, industrial design, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

March 12, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, movies, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird web

Soviet Abstract Architecture Blueprints (mid-1920s to early-1930s)

February 25, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ross Wolfe just published, on his Charnel House, these beautiful blueprints by early Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, politics, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)

January 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Tango is certainly a prodigy of pre-digital animation. The experimental short video shows thirty-six characters interacting in one room, moving in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: animations, electronic arts, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual 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

Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture

October 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Some days ago I've been invited as part of the final jury for Pierre-Antoine Marraud (a former student of our atelier at ESA) diploma. This is his … [Read more...]

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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

Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself

August 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

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Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times

August 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

“What I speculate in my work is that new technologies will play an important part in how architects embrace new ideas. The advancement of seemingly … [Read more...]

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Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan

August 18, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, land art, past futures, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

About Metropolis

August 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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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A False Paris Outside Paris: a ‘City’ Created to be Bombed

August 11, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

With exactly the same title, on 6 November 1920, the story of Sham Paris was revealed by The Illustrated London News. Located in the northern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: Three Invisible Works

August 9, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Right after the entrance of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, in a somptuous room where one would expect a big art statement, three works deal almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, literature, virtual chronicles, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]

August 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]

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The Future of Architecture and other Collages by Nils-Ole Lund

August 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Danish architect, teacher and collage-artist, author of Collage Architecture in 1990, Nils-Ole Lund's fosters the idea that modern architecture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, illustrations, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

There’s nothing you can do about it: Short history of the Architect and the Robot, by Gérard Courtieux (1969)

July 23, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

From one of the most impressive issues ever of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Nouvel Environnement de l'Homme, 145/1969), a revealing article about the … [Read more...]

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Hiroshi Hara, 500x500x500m, A New Type of Residential Cube for 100,000 People (1992)

July 22, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hiroshi Hara's "Multilayered Theory of the City" is put into practice through this model for an utopian metropolis. A three-dimensional lattice is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

Across the Space Frontier, (1952)

July 22, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

A 50's publication on the space age, before 'real' space age was even started. Among the illustrations and cutaways of space stations, rockets and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, past futures, psychogeographies, social, Technology, virtual chronicles

Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia

July 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

"Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent—a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident—and that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Technology Tagged With: information graphics, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, world weird itself, world weird web

Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code

July 17, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Stuxnet is the first computer virus (precisely a "worm") created to target, study, infect and subvert only industrial systems, namely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: politics, psychogeographies, Technology, virtual chronicles, world weird itself

The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei

July 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

An epicenter of polemics since its birth, the Centre Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

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