Although still very young, artist Eleanor Ray has already established herself as an important voice in modern painting. What contrasts with her … [Read more...]
Fracturing and Displacement of Form: Daniel Libeskind’s Early Collage Drawings (1967-1970)
The pedagogical methods of John Hejduk, Ulrich Franzen and Robert Slutzky at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in the 1960's was crucial for … [Read more...]
Collapsing Utopia: Massinissa Selmani’s “1000 Villages” and the Failed Algerian Agrarian Revolution of 1973
Massinissa Selmani, an Algerian artist born in 1980, began his studies in art in Tours, France after obtaining a degree in computer science. Today, he … [Read more...]
Infinite Small Landscapes by Claire Harvey
English artist Claire Harvey proposes an interesting approach to contemporary drawing. She works with soft pencils using office supplies like … [Read more...]
Underground New York Speculation: “Lower East Side Quarry” by Rebecca Fode (2012)
"Lower East Side Quarry" by Rebecca Fode (at the time of the project, a student of Unit 11 at the Bartlett School of Architecture—, taught by Mark … [Read more...]
A Growing, Incremental Place – Incremental Time: “Victims”, a Project by John Hejduk (1984)
"Victims" is the title of John Hejduk's entry for the 1984 Prinz-Albert-Palais competition in Berlin for the construction of a memorial park. The site … [Read more...]
The Free University of Berlin (Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm – 1963)
The international competition for the new campus of the philological institute in Berlin was won by architects Candilis, Josic, Woods and Schiedhelm … [Read more...]
Unsettling Interiors by Joachim Devillé
Joachim Devillé is a Belgian artist who mostly draws detailed charcoal pictures. His interior series represents classically composed scenes with a … [Read more...]
The House of Glass Was Suddenly All Solid Walls, A Project by Anne Holtrop (2006)
Not much happens in A.M. Homes's short story "The Weather Outside Is Sunny and Bright": the protagonist visits her Alzheimer's mother, takes a bath, … [Read more...]
From the Furniture to the City: 1964 Scale-Escalating Projects by Metabolist Kenji Ekuan
Kenji Ekuan (1929 - 2015) was an industrial designer and a central figure in Japan's Metabolist movement. The shock provoked by the sight of Hiroshima … [Read more...]
Museum of Lost Volumes by NEMESTUDIO (2015)
Mete Sonmez and Neyran Turan (NEMESTUDIO) are architects and teachers whose practice focuses on the relationship between geography and design "to … [Read more...]
Absence of Style: Lewis Baltz and the New Topographics
The exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" represented a paradigm shift in the history of photography. Nine then young … [Read more...]
Domestic Monuments: Drawings by Nathalie Du Pasquier (2009)
Painter and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier (also on Socks), has been one of the founding members of the design movement Memphis and, in particular, the … [Read more...]
“The Set and the Script” in Architecture: The Manhattan Transcripts (1976-1981) by Bernard Tschumi
Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space. B.Tschumi Developed between 1976 and 1981, … [Read more...]
Scary Monsters and Nice Prints: Works by Jamie Temple
Jamie Temple is a Scottish illustrator based in London, working primarily with Linocut. He writes about himself: Jamie’s narrative driven works … [Read more...]
Light, Shadows, Projections: Set Design by Josef Svoboda
Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) was an eminent Czech scenographer who first trained as an architect in Prague and later studied scenography at the Prague … [Read more...]
Grid, No Corridors, No Open Floor: Casa Mora by Ábalos y Herreros
Casa Mora is an unbuilt project by Iñaki Ábalos y Juan Herreros, two Spanish architects who worked together from 1985 until 2008. (Cf another post … [Read more...]
A Land-Art of Imagination: Drawings by František Lesák
František Lesák is a Czech artist who moved to Vienna in 1964. In the series Berglandschaft (Mountain Landscape, 1972-1973), today part of the … [Read more...]
The Round City of Baghdad
The first nucleus of the city of Baghdad was the "Round City" (Madinat al-Salam) founded by the Abbasid caliph al- Mansur in 762 AD and completed in … [Read more...]
The Beauty of Indeterminacy. Graphic Scores from “Treatise” by Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981) was a British music composer, who worked as an assistant for Karlheinz Stockhausen for three years. Apparently, after … [Read more...]
The Artic City. A project by Frei Otto and Kenzo Tange
In 1971, German architect Frei Otto presented the project for a city of 40.000 inhabitants to be built in the Artic circle beneath a pneumatic dome of … [Read more...]
Franco Albini’s A Room for a Man (1936)
Devised as an allegorical space for the daily activities of the modern man (embodied by the modern materials of glass, linoleum, tubular steel and … [Read more...]
Collecting, Rearranging and Reinventing: Ray Yoshida’s Comic Works
Throughout his career artist Ray Yoshida produced a long series of collages featuring excerpts from comic books. The working process includes the … [Read more...]
Relief– Architecturer l’Horizon (an exhibition at the Frac Center in Orléans)
"Relief– Architecturer l’horizon" is an exhibition which took place at "Le Turbulences", the Orléans Frac centre between 10/04/2015 and 30/08/2015. … [Read more...]
Landscape Pictograms by Otl Aicher
Among several seminal works in his career, German graphic designer Otl Aicher designed a series of posters to promote the Allgäu region in Germany, … [Read more...]
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