Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of … [Read more...]
Michelangelo Caetani’s Six Topographic Maps of the Divine Comedy
As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes's stage set design for Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, here we feature the six maps drawn by … [Read more...]
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921)
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The … [Read more...]
Madeleine de Boullogne and Louise-Magdeleine Hortemels, Abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs: Paintings and Engravings
Madeleine de Boullogne, (1646-1710), was a baroque artist born and raised in a family of painters. Extremely pious, she remained unmarried and lived a … [Read more...]
Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ Blueprints
Anna Atkins (1799-1871) was a British botanist and photographer. She was in direct contact with William Henry Fox Talbot, (the inventor of calotype, … [Read more...]
Constructing Knowledge through Geometry: Ramon Llull’s Figures in Ars Magna, 1305
Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the human mind. In his seminal opus, the Ars Magna, Llull … [Read more...]
Database, Network, Interface : The Architecture of Information. An exhibition at Archizoom (EPFL), Lausanne, starting September 27th 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are curating an exhibition that will open in September at the Archizoom Gallery (EPFL) in Lausanne, … [Read more...]
Al White, Illustrations for 12th Isle Album Covers
12th Isle is a music label founded in 2016 by a collective from Glasgow that has released excellent ambient electronic albums in the last few years, … [Read more...]
“No Function, Just Form”: CXEMA by Artem Matyushkin (2020)
Artem Matyushkin is a Russian art director and graphic designer based in Moscow and New York. He started his career as a journalist and later found … [Read more...]
Energy as Architectural Matter: Oswald Mathias Ungers’ Solar House (1980)
In 1980, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in a competition for a prototypal solar house to develop on a large scale in the community … [Read more...]
Living Inside the Earth: the Yaodong, cave buildings in China
The Yaodong (窑洞) is a type of architecture developed in the Loess Plateau in the north of China. The name literally means “cave building” and … [Read more...]
Linear Analogies: a Selection of Paul Klee’s Black and White Lithographies
In the multiple explorations of form and composition by German-Swiss artist Paul Klee, a special place is occupied by works where the line is the main … [Read more...]
Understanding Reality through Wooden Blocks: Froebel Play Gifts
Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) was a German educator, considered as the inventor of the Kindergarten in 1837, at first named “Play and Activity … [Read more...]
Margarete Fröhlich. Axonometric Explorations of Rooms
Margarete Fröhlich (1901-2001) was an Austrian artist and interior designer who specialised in the modelling of housing units. Initially, she studied … [Read more...]
“The process I use has nothing at all of that of an ‘artist’ nor does it have anything in common with an ‘artistic gesture’”. Dom Hans van der Laan’s Plastic Number
Dutch Benedictine architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) developed his body of work on the base of a system of proportions he had … [Read more...]
From Vision to Knowledge: Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower (1892)
Scottish geographer, biologist, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes bought a tower next to the Edinburgh Castle in 1892. In over 20 years, he … [Read more...]
Architecture as a Mnemonic Device: Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music
English physician and polymath Robert Fludd (1574-1637) had interests spanning from scientific knowledge to occult disciplines. His approach to … [Read more...]
The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)
Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]
“Its unfinished decoration in danger of slipping beneath the eye to hurtle wildly across the crumbling walls.” The Cage, a Visual-Novel, by Martin Vaughn-James (1975)
Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps … [Read more...]
Patterns from the World Underneath: The Ecological Relations of Roots by John Ernest Weaver (1919)
The ecological relations of roots (1919) is a book by John Ernest Weaver (1884 – 1966), an American biologist and prairie ecologist. During his life, … [Read more...]
Ryan Carl, Grid Forms Study 02 (2020)
After Circle Study 07, the second work by designer Ryan Carl that we feature here on Socks is a sequence of geometric operations on grid forms … [Read more...]
Ryan Carl, Circle Study 07 (2020)
The work of Ryan Carl is "rooted in radical simplicity". A designer who studied religion and philosophy before opening his practice, Ryan Carl delves … [Read more...]
The Architecture of the Workspace: Axonometric Drawings by Peter Judson
Peter Judson is a British designer and illustrator. (Already featured, on Socks). For his project "Hyundai card", commissioned by design studio … [Read more...]
An Exercise in Constraints: Drawings by Wacław Szpakowski (1883-1973)
Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect, engineer and artist. Starting at seventeen years old and throughout his whole life, he developed a series of … [Read more...]
The Theatre as Machine: Joseph Furttenbach Stage Design
Joseph Furttenbach (1591 – 1667) was a German architect, engineer and architecture theorist who lived in Italy from 1610 to 1620. During his stay … [Read more...]
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