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Fields

Architectural projects and artistic researches have explored the potential of isotropic spaces, by definition: territories where the conditions are equally distributed. Hierarchy is abandoned, the distinction between figure and ground disappears and the available land is evenly covered, being it a piece of paper or a territorial plot. In some projects the idea of field is a metaphor, the ever-expanding territory of capital materialized by infinite urban development, in other it is merely a condition, a potential to be explored.
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Understanding the Grid /1: Michel Ecochard’s Planning and Building Framework in Casablanca

December 7, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

French architect Michel Ecochard, also trained as an archeologist, was the director of the Morocco Department of Urban Planning from 1946 to 1952 … [Read more...]

“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen

October 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]

On Continuous Space: Louis Kahn’s Olivetti-Underwood Factory

September 14, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

In 1966 Italian typewriters and related products company Olivetti asked architect Louis Kahn to design their factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The … [Read more...]

Materializing Abstract Space: Project E-2, a House by Hiromi Fujii (1968-71)

September 10, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Project E-2 (1968-1971) by Hiromi Fujii is an example of the Japanese architect's research on "neutral" architecture, one liberated from any burden of … [Read more...]

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