English physician and polymath Robert Fludd (1574-1637) had interests spanning from scientific knowledge to occult disciplines. His approach to … [Read more...]
The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)
Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]
“Its unfinished decoration in danger of slipping beneath the eye to hurtle wildly across the crumbling walls.” The Cage, a Visual-Novel, by Martin Vaughn-James (1975)
Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps … [Read more...]
Patterns from the World Underneath: The Ecological Relations of Roots by John Ernest Weaver (1919)
The ecological relations of roots (1919) is a book by John Ernest Weaver (1884 – 1966), an American biologist and prairie ecologist. During his life, … [Read more...]
Ryan Carl, Grid Forms Study 02 (2020)
After Circle Study 07, the second work by designer Ryan Carl that we feature here on Socks is a sequence of geometric operations on grid forms … [Read more...]
Ryan Carl, Circle Study 07 (2020)
The work of Ryan Carl is "rooted in radical simplicity". A designer who studied religion and philosophy before opening his practice, Ryan Carl delves … [Read more...]
The Architecture of the Workspace: Axonometric Drawings by Peter Judson
Peter Judson is a British designer and illustrator. (Already featured, on Socks). For his project "Hyundai card", commissioned by design studio … [Read more...]
An Exercise in Constraints: Drawings by Wacław Szpakowski (1883-1973)
Wacław Szpakowski was a Polish architect, engineer and artist. Starting at seventeen years old and throughout his whole life, he developed a series of … [Read more...]
The Theatre as Machine: Joseph Furttenbach Stage Design
Joseph Furttenbach (1591 – 1667) was a German architect, engineer and architecture theorist who lived in Italy from 1610 to 1620. During his stay … [Read more...]
Axonometric Realism: “Hortus Conclusus” by Beate Gütschow (2019)
Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing … [Read more...]
A Visual Thinking Strategy: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Morphologie: City Metaphors (1982)
German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007) accompanied his life-long architectural and theoretical production with a parallel work on found … [Read more...]
Symbolic Truth: Geometric Portraits by Indigenous Populations from Brazil.
Founded by Lina Bo and her husband Pietro Maria Bardi in 1950, the Brazilian magazine Habitat ("The magazine of the arts in Brazil") manifested a … [Read more...]
Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)
New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected … [Read more...]
Color Schemes from Geology. A Work by Uibelakers (1781)
Franz Uibelakers was a German mineralogist. In his work, “System des Karlsbader Sinters” (1781) he presented sections of stalactites and stalagmites … [Read more...]
Mary Ellen Solt, Moonshot Sonnet (1964)
The Moonshot Sonnet is a concrete poem composed in 1964 by poet Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007). The work is a poem created reformatting diagrammatic … [Read more...]
Two Exhibitions at Iris Clert Gallery, Paris: Yves Klein’s Le Vide (The Void, 1958) and Arman’s Le Plein (The Full-Up, 1960)
Recently my work with color has led me, in spite of myself, to search little by little, with some assistance (from the observer, from the translator), … [Read more...]
Inner Space (The Book)
We present Inner Space, an essay we have written in connection to the curatorship of the homonymous exhibition at the 2019 Lisbon … [Read more...]
The Underlying Structure of Letters: Luca Pacioli’s Alphabet from De Divina Proportione (1509)
Franciscan friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli wrote several books on mathematics and geometry. Among them, in 1497, Pacioli conceived De Divina … [Read more...]
Gareth Damian Martin, Postcards from The Continuous City, 2018
The Continuous City is an in-progress photographic series by Gareth Damian Martin. The British artist, game designer and writer explores video game … [Read more...]
Rabanus Maurus, De laudibus sanctae crucis, (810-814)
Rabanus Maurus was a Benedictine monk, archbishop of Mainz, writer and poet who lived between c.780 and 856. A very sophisticated intellectual, he was … [Read more...]
The Shape of Knowledge: The Mundaneum by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine
Mankind is at a turning point in its history. The mass of data acquired is astounding. We need new instruments to simplify it, to condense it, or … [Read more...]
The Charterhouse of Padua, a Forgotten Place, (Marco Lumini and Alberto Michielotto)
We usually don’t accept text contributions for SOCKS, but we made an exception for this article on the Charterhouse in Padua, Italy featuring original … [Read more...]
The Abstract Textures of the Aurelian Walls. Photographs by Giampiero Sanguigni (2019)
The Aurelian walls have marked the line of defense of Rome for 16 centuries, from their construction (270 to 275 AD), until September 20, 1870, when … [Read more...]
(Review) Éric Alonzo, The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories (2018)
L’architecture de la voie. Histoire et Théories (“The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories”) is the bold title of a French volume that Éric … [Read more...]
Spatializing Knowledge: Giulio Camillo’s Theatre of Memory (1519-1544)
Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480-1544) was an Italian Renaissance polymath. His most famous project, started in ca.1519 and carried on until his death, … [Read more...]
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