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...]
Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)
James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist and illustrator. His 1809 book 'A new elucidation of colours, original, … [Read more...]
Waiting Land: Ideal Homes / Interiors / Inventory (Karen Lohrmann & Stefano de Martino 2001-2013)
Waiting Land is an art and landscape project devised by Lorma Marti , the collaborative practice of Stefano de Martino and Karen Lohrmann. The … [Read more...]
Hans Poelzig’s Festspielhaus in Salzburg
In 1920, German architect Hans Poelzig began the preliminary design of the Festival Theatre (Festspielhaus) for Hellbrunn, Salzburg. The visionary … [Read more...]
Thomas Barbey’s Rotring Cliffs Drawings (2014)
Our dear friend artist and gardener Thomas Barbey, based in Villerville, Normandy (France) and not to be confused to his Switzerland namesake -and … [Read more...]
Roland Kayn and the Development of Cybernetic Music
Roland Kayn (1933-2011) was a German composer who studied in Stuttgart at the "Hochschule fur Musik", and at the "Technische Hochschule" with Max … [Read more...]
“Where is the Mind, When the Body is Here?”: Pushwagner’s Soft City (1970)
"Get up, take a pill, kiss the baby, go to work, punch in, punch out, go home, kiss the baby, go to sleep." (from) The cyclical story of Soft … [Read more...]
The Observatory by Robert Morris (1971)
The Observatory is a land-art piece by Robert Morris located in Flevoland, in the Netherlands. The first version of the project was created by the … [Read more...]
Paul Kirchner’s The Bus (1978)
Paul Kirchner's comic strip 'The Bus' was published in 1978 and appeared regularly on Heavy Metal Magazine for seven years. In every strip the … [Read more...]
“An Extended Moment, a Slightly Displaced Presence”: Miwa Ogasawara’s paintings
Critics consider Miwa Ogasawara's paintings as representational but without narrative. The unspectacular works of the Japanese born, Hamburg based … [Read more...]
Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973)
Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. … [Read more...]
Richard Giblett’s Architectural Algorithms
Richard Giblett (B.1966, Hong Kong), an artist living and working in Melbourne, creates bi and three-dimensional works as explorations of urban … [Read more...]
Franco Purini: Study of Architectural Elements (1968)
The number 11-12 (Nov-Dec 1972) of Italian architecture magazine Controspazio presented a retrospective of the earliest "design researches" by the … [Read more...]
Corner Solutions of Mies Van Der Rohe’s towers (John Winter, 1972)
In the February 1972 issue of The Architectural Review, the architect, writer and Architectural Association teacher John Winter analysed the design … [Read more...]
William Turner’s Perspective Lectures Diagrams
During his tenure as Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, (between 1807 and 1837) Joseph Mallord William Turner created 170 drawings, … [Read more...]
Kaupungin Arkkitehtuuri: Posters from the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1950-2000)
The Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA) in Helsinki, has an interesting collection of posters of its exhibitions from the 1950's to the … [Read more...]
Ettore Sottsass Jr.’s Metaphors (1972-1979)
"He starts leaving discrete signs in the landscape, almost invisible traces, he continues building real architectures or metaphors of the … [Read more...]
“Je croyais voir un piège”, by Laurent Millet (2012)
Je croyais voir un piège ("I thought I saw a trap") is a 2012 set of photographs and sculptures by French artist Laurent Millet, exhibited at … [Read more...]
Klaus Rinke: Time, Space, Body, Transformations
Klaus Rinke is a German artist who explored several artistic means (painting, sculpture) before concentrating on body art. He especially used the … [Read more...]
A Book of Images Drawn by William Thomas Horton (1898)
A collection of both mundane and mystical scenes, A Book of Images is an odd work by W.T.Horton (1864-1919). Mystic, illustrator and author, Horton … [Read more...]
Moving Boundaries in the Alps: Italian Limes (Venice Architecture Biennale 2014), by Folder and collaborators
After actually visiting the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, during the last week, we finally had the pleasure to … [Read more...]
Socks-Studio/Microcities in 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale: State of Exception (Spacelab’s Weekend Monditalia Special)
Thanks to the kind invitation of the guys at the Italian design and architecture studio Spacelab (Luca Silenzi + Zoè Chantall Monterubbiano … [Read more...]
The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals by Hans Van der Laan
The St.Benedictusberg Abbey at Vaals (Netherlands) is a Benedectin Abbey which was built starting in 1922 as a simple quadrilater with two towers … [Read more...]
Eileen Gray’s 1920’s Screens
Fascinated by traditional lacquerware technique, Irish furniture designer and pioneer Modern architect Eileen Gray (1878 - 1976), (related, on Socks) … [Read more...]
Less is (not) a Bore: Illustrations and Designs by Okuyama Taiki
Okuyama Taiki is a Tokyo based, Japanese graphic designer and illustrator born in 1988. His designs are quite minimalist without ever looking … [Read more...]
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