Adolphe Appia, (1862-1928) was a Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor. His theories and realized works … [Read more...]
Evolutionary Housescape: the Metabolist Sky House by Kiyonori Kikutake (1958)
The house the Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) designed and built for himself in 1958, still stands out as a monument to his … [Read more...]
The World Explained by Kappa Senoo
Kappa Senoo (1930) is a Japanese graphic designer, a successfull set designer, essayist and novelist. A 1997 autobiographical book depicting … [Read more...]
Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)
Jivya Soma Mashe is a central figure in Indian tribal art, as he was the one who turned the Warli tribal art from a predominantly … [Read more...]
Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects
In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto del … [Read more...]
Methods, Processes and Transformations: 1930s Works by Kurt Kranz
I look for rules, principles, methods or processes that generate change by visual means and lead to a consistent process that is governed by … [Read more...]
The Imaginary Town of an Unconscious Architect: The 387 Paper Model Houses of Peter Fritz
Although the 2013 Venice Art Biennale ended almost two weeks ago, we'd like to talk about one of the artworks that impressed us … [Read more...]
House Within a House /1: Todoroki Residence by Hiromi Fujii, Ichikawa (1976)
Hiromi Fujii (1937) is a Japanese architect who started his career in 1964 collaborating with Italian architect Angelo Mangiarotti … [Read more...]
An Ancient Example of Cluster Planning: Pit Houses and Kivas in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The ruins of the pueblos in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, (villages founded by ancient Native American communities, Ancient Pueblo people, … [Read more...]
A Forgotten Masterwork: Cinema Airone in Rome by Libera with Capogrossi (1952-56)
In the late 1940’s a trapezoidal lot in the then underdeveloped Appio-Latino quartier in Rome was destined to housing and architects Calini and … [Read more...]
Flying Boats /2 – Latécoère 521 “Lieutenant de Vasseau Paris”
The interwar period must have been very exciting for an aviation enthusiast. The aircraft industry developed so rapidly that only twenty … [Read more...]
“Must it Stay that Way?” Critical Posters by Gunter Rambow (1971)
In 1971, German graphic designer and photographer Gunter Rambow produced a series of posters tackling the failing realm of urban planning and building … [Read more...]
Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)
In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]
“Is all Architecture Truly Political?” A response to Quilian Riano by Ross Wolfe
Gunter Rambow, “Utopie Dynamit” (1976) If a mantra could define the present-day architectural debate, it would surely be the assertive claim that … [Read more...]
Seventy ‘Tana’ or ‘Tokowaki’ Variations, in Tetsuro Yoshida’s ‘The Japanese House’ (1935)
Japanese architect Tetsuro Yoshida (1894–1956) was a key figure of architectural interchange between East and West during the early 1930's. … [Read more...]
Hans Poelzig’s Sulphuric Acid Factory in Luboń, Poland (1911-1912)
In a parallel with Ross Wolfe, (yet purely coincidential) we publish here an early industrial work of architect Hans Poelzig, one … [Read more...]
A 50 x 50 House for Mass Production (1951): An Unbuilt Project By L. Mies Van Der Rohe
Mies van der Rohe addressed the question of mass-housing in his unbuilt project, the 50x50 feet House (50 feet is almost 16m) in 1951. Conceived as a … [Read more...]
Applying the Cadavre Exquis: The Competition for the Dutch Parliament Extension, OMA (Koolhaas, Zenghelis, Zaha Hadid) – 1978
The surrealist theorem of the Cadavre Exquis was studied and applied by Rem Koolhaas since the beginning of his architectural … [Read more...]
Walls as Rooms / 2: Fortified Churches in Transylvania
A while ago we wrote about British castles and how they became an inspiration for Louis Kahn's research on "servant" and "served" spaces. A further … [Read more...]
Amancio Williams’s Bridge House (Casa del puente), 1943-45
One of the first built works of the Argentinian architect Amancio Williams was the house for his father, the musician and composer Alberto Williams. … [Read more...]
An Unbuilt Project by L. Kahn: The Library of the Washington University
In 1956, architect Louis Kahn was invited to take part in the competition for "The Olin Library", a 200.000 square feet building in Washington. The … [Read more...]
Sonsbeek Pavilion in Arnhem, Aldo Van Eyck (1966)
A temporary pavilion was designed by Aldo Van Eyck and built in the summer of 1966 to host sculptures by nearly thirty artists (including Brancusi, … [Read more...]
Peugeot Skyscraper in Buenos Aires, a Project by Maurizio Sacripanti (1961)
Maurizio Scripanti (1916-1996) was an original figure in Italian post-war architectural panorama. You maybe remember another project of him that we … [Read more...]
Adolf Loos, Tristan Tzara House, Paris (1925-1926)
The house for the Romanian poet and Dadaist Tristan Tzara and his wife, the painter Knitson, was designed and built by the Austrian architect Adolf … [Read more...]
Drawing the Naked City: Shohei Manabe
What is striking in the precise drawings of the japanese comic artist Manabe Shohei is their ability to immediately express the feeling of a street or … [Read more...]
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