Claire Trotignon (b.1983) is a multi-media artist. At the beginning of her career she mostly produced collages and drawings but in recent times … [Read more...]
Ko. Machiyama’s “Last experiments in America” and Other Illustrations
Machiyama Kotaro (b.1980) is a Japanese painter, illustrator and web designer from the Chiba Prefecture. We love his xeroxed-like coloring and his … [Read more...]
Monument for Every Situation, Lygia Clark (1964)
Monumento para todas as situações ("Monument for Every Situation"), is a series of small-scale objects created by Lygia Clark in 1964. (See also in … [Read more...]
Playhouse of Straw (Peter Stackpole on LIFE Magazine – June 1956)
This very short article about a children building construction kit made of drinking straws, was illustrated by the photographs of Peter Stackpole and … [Read more...]
Civilization and its Discontents According to Ben Tolman
The hyper-detailed ink-on-paper drawings by Ben Tolman depict the built environment and the effects it has on the people who inhabit it. Cities … [Read more...]
Tokyo-X: an “Anti-Compositive and Anti-Typological” Project by Andrea Branzi
Tokyo City X (1990) is a meta-project, the design of a theoretical city based on a single huge building of 800.000 sqm in the Tokyo bay. Commissioned … [Read more...]
“It’s Not Going to Happen Like That” and Other Paintings by Anna Conway
Anna Conway is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Her landscapes, interiors, and urbanscapes often depict individuals confronted with … [Read more...]
“Agricultural City” by Kisho Kurokawa (1960)
Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa survived the Ise Bay Typhoon in 1959 and his experience inspired the design for an "Agricultural City" … [Read more...]
Simmetry and Alignments: The Temple of Horus in Edfu
One of the best preserved temples in Egypt is devoted to the falcon god Horus and was built between 237 and 57 BCE during the Ptolemaic Period. … [Read more...]
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert
Kevin Lucbert (Paris, 1985) is a young illustrator who got a diploma in 2008 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad) in Paris … [Read more...]
“Along the River During the Qingming Festival” by Zhang Zeduan (12th Century) and an 18th Century Remake
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a Chinese artwork attributed to the Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and painted over a … [Read more...]
MAP Office: Hong Kong Is Land (2014)
MAP Office, a duo of artists and architects formed in 1996 by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix (already on Socks with their "Unreal Estates of … [Read more...]
Madelon Vriesendorp’s Manhattan Project
«These works weren't created to commission!», (Vriesendorp) comments smiling, almost hesitantly in Basel. They «were created as the result of an … [Read more...]
Erwin Heerich’s Abstract Geometrical Compositions (and Other Works)
German artist Erwin Heerich (1922-2004) used to work mostly with cardboard and polystyrene, materials which he believed didn't have any specific … [Read more...]
Suburbia and Other Catastrophes: Drawings by Jeremy Profit
The visual universe of French illustrator Jeremy Profit is located somewhere in a generic suburban environment, where sprawled houses, streets and … [Read more...]
The Map as an Artistic Territory: Relief Shading Works and Studies by Eduard Imhof
Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986) was a professor of cartography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, from 1925 to 1965. His studies on … [Read more...]
Allan Wexler’s Axonometrics of the House (1979)
Some days ago we featured on Socks a set of cray landscape models by US architect, artist and teacher Allan Wexler. Today we focus on a smaller scale, … [Read more...]
Maulwerke (Mouth Works) and Other Compositions’ Graphic Scores by Dieter Schnebel
Postmodern composer, musicologist and theologian Dieter Schebel (1930, -), before challenging the definition and the limits of music by expressing it … [Read more...]
Breaking Ground (2011-2014) by Allan Wexler
Allan Wexler is one of those figures whose work is difficult to classify within conventional boundaries. Working since forty five years in the fields … [Read more...]
Blinding Berlin: ‘Pan’ by Johann Besse
Johann Besse is a Swiss photographer currently living in Berlin. For his 2011 series "Pan" he took several shots of pre-fabricated buildings … [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...]
Rento Van Drunen’s ‘Gridcollages’ and ‘Transmission’
Rento Van Drunen is pursuing an ongoing visual research on graphs, tables and grids. His series of drawings "Gridcollages" and "Transmission", are … [Read more...]
Scissors Series by Chiara Dattola
Personal sorrow gave our dear friend Chiara Dattola the strength to produce her more intense drawings so far. "I like scissors. Lately I've started … [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...]
Rem Koolhaas and the Bourgeois Myth of New York (Gabriele Mastrigli – 2013)
Now that the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale finally came to an end, we think it is the right time to publish this interesting short essay by … [Read more...]
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