The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, also called the Mezquita, is a medieval Islamic mosque that was converted into a Catholic Christian cathedral in … [Read more...]
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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The Field and the Wall: The Great Mosque of Samarra
The "Great mosque of al-Mutawakkil" in Samarra, (Iraq), was commissioned in 848 and built in 851 under Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil after his father … [Read more...]
Marco Cadioli’s Abstract Journeys and Necessary Lines (2011 – 2013)
"I'm interested in the signs that man does without knowing" Mario Giacomelli Marco Cadioli is an Italian net artist and teacher … [Read more...]
Mikhail Okhitovich and the Disurbanism
Mikhail Okhitovich was a singular figure in Soviet architecture of the 20's and 30's. As a Bolshevik sociologist, town planner and Constructivist … [Read more...]
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