Born in 1872 as illegitimate son of an architect and of the revered actress Dame Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig was raised as an actor in the … [Read more...]
The Field and the Wall: The Great Mosque of Samarra
The "Great mosque of al-Mutawakkil" in Samarra, (Iraq), was commissioned in 848 and built in 851 under Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil after his father … [Read more...]
“Under the Mountain” by Jamie Mills
"Under the mountain" is a small sequence of axonometric illustrations by Jamie Mills: a story of progressive colonization of built … [Read more...]
“Silent Architecture” by Simon Ungers
Simon Ungers (1957-2006), son of O.M. Ungers, bound architecture and art throughout his career. His series "Silent architecture" … [Read more...]
Rooms in the Forest: Jan Szpakowicz’s House (1971)
The house Jan Szpakowicz designed and built for himself in 1971 deals with the Polish architect's will to inhabit the woods, merging the … [Read more...]
A City Made of Rooms : The “Neue Stadt” of Köln (1961-1964) by O.M. Ungers
In 1957 the urban planning department of Köln decided to develop a new satellite-town of 100,000 inhabitants (Neue-Stadt) in the northern … [Read more...]
Structures to Let Man Fly: Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites
Photography from Bell Collection Between 1895 and 1910 famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell worked on the construction of kites, designing, building … [Read more...]
How to Isolate Yourself and Inhabit Everywhere: Absalon’s Living Cells (1991-1993)
The inhabitation cells ("Cellules d'habitation") are six living pods for a single person designed by Israeli-born artist Absalon. After leaving his … [Read more...]
Walls as Rooms /4 : The Hakka Tulou (Community Housing for Equals)
Mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, the Tulou are large fortified buildings representing a specific and traditional housing type of … [Read more...]
León Ferrari’s Héliographias / 2 (Iterations, Textures, Pattern)
In this second series of Héliographias (see previous post), the plan view drawings by Léon Ferrari lose every connection with … [Read more...]
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was an Argentinian conceptual artist who worked with a series of extremely different medias through the years. … [Read more...]
City Maps by Jazzberry Blue
Jazzberry Blue is an an artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Among his rich production, stands out a set of city maps rendered in an … [Read more...]
Mapping the ‘Bloody Week’: The Last Days of the Paris Commune in a Cartographic Narrative
The events that occurred in the last month of La Commune, - the socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871 … [Read more...]
‘Forest’ and Other Interpretations of Nature by Jamie Mills
A series of drawings by English artist, illustrator & animator Jamie Mills show commodified fragments of fauna and flora … [Read more...]
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered, an ETH Zürich Studio by Adam Caruso
The 2012 Studio at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), held by Prof. Adam Caruso focused on the important relation betweeen … [Read more...]
Science Fiction and Architecture in the Work of Frank R. Paul
Born in Vienna in 1884, Frank R. Paul studied architecture, but applied his knowledge and passion in this field to illustrate cityscapes of a future … [Read more...]
Marco Cadioli’s Abstract Journeys and Necessary Lines (2011 – 2013)
"I'm interested in the signs that man does without knowing" Mario Giacomelli Marco Cadioli is an Italian net artist and teacher … [Read more...]
Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)
László Moholy - Nagy - collage, ink and watercolour on paper "The Light Prop for an Electric Stage", also known as "the Light Space Modulator", … [Read more...]
Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves
The stick charts were the main tool the Marshallese used to navigate on canoe across the islands of the Pacific Ocean, until WWII. Lacking … [Read more...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
Monopoly before Monopoly: A Board Game as a Critical Device
"Children of nine or ten years (...) learn that the quickest way to accumulate wealth and gain power is to get all the land they can in the … [Read more...]
A Building is an Island is a Building: The Île Seguin Renault Factory in Paris
In 1919 Louis Renault, a talented engineer and head of the « Société des Automobiles Renault» began to acquire the "Île Seguin", an island in the … [Read more...]
Colourful Interior Design for the Sonneveld House (Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, 1929-1933)
After the 1929 stock market crash, no big architectural commission was in sight for Dutch architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. Thus the … [Read more...]
E.L. Youmans’s “Chemical Atlas: Or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects” (1854)
"Every experienced teacher understands the necessity of making the acquisition of the elementary and foundation principles upon which a … [Read more...]
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