The stark urgency and clean lines of their prose mirrored the light-metal severity of groups like Wire, the Banshees, and Gang of Four, just … [Read more...]
Axonometric Drawings by Icinori
Icinori is a duo based in France, formed by illustrators and graphic designers Raphael Urwiller and Mayumi Otero (the work of the latter was already … [Read more...]
Rhythmus 21, an Early Abstract Film by Hans Richter (1921)
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 – February 1, 1976), a German avant garde artist who had contacts with "Der Blaue Reiter", Cubism and Dada movements, was … [Read more...]
Les Immatériaux (an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985)
30 years are passed since a historic exhibition took place at the Centre Pompidou (specifically at the Centre de Création industrielle). Curated by … [Read more...]
120 Doors by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen (2003)
Following the previous post on the isometric environments created by Franka Hörnschemeyer, here we propose a relatively old installation by Chilean … [Read more...]
The Imaginary City of Tamponville (Aurélien Debat and Marc Kauffmann)
Tamponville is an imaginary city created by French illustrator Aurélien Debat and architect Marc Kauffmann. The duo collaborated for the creation of … [Read more...]
Section Drawings by Céline Jesberger and Pierre-Louis Filippi
Two former students of ours, at the Atelier we teached in with Luca Galofaro two years ago, (dedicated to "Religion"), Céline and Pierre-Louis proved … [Read more...]
Mary Miss’s 1977–1978 Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys
Mary Miss (1944), pioneer of land art, focuses her outdoor interventions on the experience of the individual moving in a particular landscape; … [Read more...]
Reinventing Monumentality: the Competition for the District of Les Halles in Paris by A.Monestiroli (1979)
The troubled history of Les Halles district in Paris is about to enter another chapter with the imminent completion of the new building designed by … [Read more...]
Being in Love Eases the Pain, Illustrations by Harriet Lee Merrion
Harriet Lee-Merrion (b. 1991) is a free-lance illustrator living in Bristol, originally from Falmouth, Cornwall. Her recurring theme is the … [Read more...]
Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition (14th Venice Biennale of Architecture – 2014)
Effimero: or the Postmodern Italian Condition is a research project by architect and historian Léa-Catherine Szacka, on display at the 14th … [Read more...]
Ground Floor Crisis (14th Venice Biennale of Architecture – 2014)
"Ground Floor Crisis" is one of the projects exhibited during the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale of 2014. The work, developed by Matteo Ghidoni … [Read more...]
Factories and Plastics by Marion Tivital
The factories painted by Marion Tivital are objects reduced to minimal geometrical forms. The buildings appears in a foggy environment which blurs … [Read more...]
The Banality of Everyday Life: Domestic Interiors painted by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916)
Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter known for his low-key atmospheres and his very limited palette of grey tones and mostly … [Read more...]
Traces of Nature in Japanese Suburbs: Works by Yukiko Suto
Yukiko Suto is a Japanese artist who works mostly on black and white images on canvas combining different painting and drawing techniques. … [Read more...]
Nathalie Du Pasquier’s Recent Paintings and Constructions
Graphic and industrial designer, illustrator and painter, Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) was one of the original co-founders of … [Read more...]
Giorgio Scarpa’s Models of Rotational Geometry (1978)
Genesis of form. Motion is at the root of all growth — Paul Klee Giorgio Scarpa (1938-2012) was an Italian designer, bionics researcher, artist … [Read more...]
The Building is the City: Le Corbusier’s Unbuilt Hospital in Venice
The "New Venice hospital" is an unbuilt yet renowned project by Le Corbusier. The first phase of the design took place between 1964 and 1965, the year … [Read more...]
Flat Manhattan (1883)
A moment in time when Manhattan was flat and had a strange likeness to Burri's 1984-89 "Cretto di Gibellina" (photograph below). The 1883 engraving … [Read more...]
Meteorographica, or Methods of Mapping the Weather, by Francis Galton (1863)
English Victorian polymath, sir Francis Galton was a psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, … [Read more...]
Diane Berg doesn’t work as an Architect Anymore
Instead she has pursued an increasingly successful career as illustrator. Yet her former education, which deals with narratives inherent in buildings, … [Read more...]
Town Planning by Peter Judson
His name is Peter Judson. He's a Designer and Printmaker based in London. Between Memphis Group, 8-bit video-games, Lego and postmodern aesthetics, … [Read more...]
“Irrational and Useless” Monument: The Abu Dhabi Mastaba by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Since 1977 Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been working on their largest mastaba of oil barrels, a project conceived for the city of Abu Dhabi in the … [Read more...]
The Field and the Nave: the Mezquita of Córdoba
The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, also called the Mezquita, is a medieval Islamic mosque that was converted into a Catholic Christian cathedral in … [Read more...]
The Plan is a Society of Rooms*: Goldenberg House by Louis Kahn (1959)
The Goldenberg House is a 1959 unbuilt project by Louis Kahn for an area in Montgomery County near Philadelphia. This work couples previous Kahn's … [Read more...]
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