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Representation: Axonometric projection

The axonometric projection is a parallel projection, usually detaching the viewer from the scene and emphasizing the level of abstraction in the representation of the subject. Mostly employed for technical drawings, axonometrics can be as expressive as any other projection while keeping the ability of being highly descriptive. An axonometric image allows to place on the same level very different layers of informations on a space which is non-hierarchical and isotropic. The complexity of a scene is underlined while its contradictions are resolved by making them peacefully cohabit in the same frame.
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Fragments of an Unknown Civilization: Works by James Lipnickas

October 9, 2022 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes representing small architectural stages in … [Read more...]

Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot

June 12, 2022 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Energy as Architectural Matter: Oswald Mathias Ungers’ Solar House (1980)

June 27, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Understanding Reality through Wooden Blocks: Froebel Play Gifts

March 8, 2021 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

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