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...]
“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...]
The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)
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...]
The Search for the “Open Form”: The Extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery by Oskar and Zofia Hansen (1958)
The project for the extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery was an unbuilt project developed by Polish architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen, with Lech … [Read more...]
Autonomous Neutral Objects: The Combinatorial Models of La Villette’s Folies
We've recently stumbled upon these interesting photographs of "maquettes combinatoires" (combinatorial models) of the Park La … [Read more...]
“I grew up here, but I never felt entirely part of it”: Marco Tirelli’s Tiny Sculptures
Marco Tirelli grew up at the Swiss Institute in Rome, surrounded by visiting scholars and artists. His father was the manager and he family lived … [Read more...]
