A cinematic tour inside 1564 Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Procession to Calvary" (image below), The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski, … [Read more...]
Sound Mirrors and Other Sensory Expansion Devices: From Wartime Technology to Radical Art Practices
A sound mirror (or acoustic mirror) is a device employed to reflect and concentrate sound waves. An experimentation on large scale acoustic … [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...]
Joe Colombo, Total Furnishing Unit (1971)
"The possibilities presented by the extraordinary development of audiovisual processes are enormous…… Distances will no longer have much importance; … [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...]
Computer Graphics’ Archaeology: the HP 9845C Demo
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...]
Brian Sanders: Artwork Commissioned for the Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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...]
Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World
"...For the world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it. That is, the … [Read more...]
Soviet Abstract Architecture Blueprints (mid-1920s to early-1930s)
Ross Wolfe just published, on his Charnel House, these beautiful blueprints by early Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, … [Read more...]
Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)
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...]
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...]
Thierry Cohen’s Villes éteintes / Darkened Cities
Thierry Cohen is a professional photographer since 1985 and a pioneer in digital photography. "Since 2010, from megacities to deserts, he has … [Read more...]
Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture
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...]
Flying Houses, by Laurent Chehere
Pretty much as the title says. By Laurent Chehere, a photographer living and working in Paris. … [Read more...]
Variations on a Dark City and Other Works, by Espen Dietrichson
Levitating, exploded architecture by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson. These images result from a combination of media including photography, … [Read more...]
Models of Soviet Avant-garde Architecture
Thanks to Ross Wolfe, we can feature here these models of Soviet Constructivist architectures (built or non-built), recently made by Australian … [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...]
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...]
Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times
“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...]
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...]
A False Paris Outside Paris: a ‘City’ Created to be Bombed
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...]
Liddy Scheffknecht’s Scaffolding
Liddy Scheffknecht's "Scaffolding" is a series of photographs of buildings being refurbished. The photographs are edited in order to leave only the … [Read more...]
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