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The Architecture of Cooking. Illustrations from: Urbain Dubois, La Cuisine Artistique, 1872

December 2, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Urbain Dubois (1818-1901) was a French chef, an innovator of the art of the cuisine and a prolific author. During his life, he authored a series of … [Read more...]

The Origins of The Plan: Forma Urbis Romae (between 203 and 211 CE)

November 4, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Forma Urbis Romae or Forma Urbis Severiana was a very large map of the imperial city of Rome (18 m long by 13 m high) carved on 151 marble slabs … [Read more...]

The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as … [Read more...]

Fausto Melotti, Weightless Constructions (1960’s – 1980’s)

October 8, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. … [Read more...]

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