Illustrator Brian Sanders was hired by Stanley Kubrick to record the filming of "2001: A Space Odissey. Sanders had free access to most of the set and … [Read more...]
Soviet Abstract Architecture Blueprints (mid-1920s to early-1930s)
Ross Wolfe just published, on his Charnel House, these beautiful blueprints by early Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, … [Read more...]
“House Taken Over”, by Julio Cortazar, (1944) illustrated by Juan Fresan (1969)
Thanks to writer China Miéville (author of very good "The City & the City") and to his article about the "50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every … [Read more...]
Éva Le Roi’s “Conditionnement”
Éva Le Roi is a very talented young artist and illustrator living and working in Bruxelles. She's recently collaborated with the Luxemburg Pavilion … [Read more...]
How the House looked like in 2001
Sorry for the misleading title, this is really Walter Cronkite in 1967 explaining how the house of the future would have looked like. (From the CBS … [Read more...]
Microcities’ “The Field” at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
Hello and sorry for the long hiatus, due to overwork at Microcities, lately. This quick post is to thank friends at Think Space and Adrian Lahoud, … [Read more...]
Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczyński (1980)
Tango is certainly a prodigy of pre-digital animation. The experimental short video shows thirty-six characters interacting in one room, moving in … [Read more...]
Hoppla Kultur (50 pictures to the glory of our time) by A. Paul Weber
Ambiguous figure in German history and art, Andreas Paul Weber, prominent lithographer, draftsman and painter, was imprisoned during the Nazi regime … [Read more...]
Grant Wood and Regionalism (Visions on Rural Life and Work)
Together with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood was one of the three major figures of American regionalist art movement of the … [Read more...]
Images of a Changing World: Settai Komura (1887–1940)
Settai Komura (1887–1940) was a refined yet prolific Shin Hanga artist. As a kabuki stage set designer, he produced around 200 works. He also was an … [Read more...]
Salaryman 6 – A Modern Tale of Overwork in Japan
Salaryman #6, a short 2002 movie, is a tale of modern life in Japan. A man is seen sprawled on the floor in an office; his colleagues help him to his … [Read more...]
Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse
Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]
Review: The Draftery Fig. 02 – Narrative Exhortations
It is now clear that after some years of normative drawings and shiny renderings like the ones defining the aesthetics of a Mark magazine, the … [Read more...]
“Don’t you think there is enough anxiety at present?” The 1982 Debate Between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER: The thing that strikes me about your friend's building -- if I understood you correctly -- is that somehow in some intentional … [Read more...]
“Taking Measures Across the American Landscape” by James Corner and Alex McLean
James Corner, internationally renowned landscape architect and forerunner of the landscape urbanism movement, was author in 1996 of "Taking Measures … [Read more...]
Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture
Some days ago I've been invited as part of the final jury for Pierre-Antoine Marraud (a former student of our atelier at ESA) diploma. This is his … [Read more...]
Deserto Rosso #0 – ‘Festschrift per gli 80 anni di Peter Eisenman’
"I have to think that all that happens to me is my life" (Monica Vitti in "The Red Desert") A "Festschrift" is a celebratory book made in honour of … [Read more...]
The Territory as an Abstract Cartography
Waiting to find some time to write a more extensive post, we leave you with the marvelous details of early geological maps from the 19th and 20th … [Read more...]
Atemporality at Work *
* Kazys Varnelis couldn't possibly better resume this series of collage drawings recently featured on Archive of Affinities: "Chief among these is … [Read more...]
Relational Cities, by Fabio Alessandro Fusco
Fabio Alessandro Fusco, Italian architect and teacher, made a set of drawings entitled "Relational Cities". The Relational Cities are conceptual … [Read more...]
Book Review: Pamphlet Architecture 11-20
Pamphlet Architecture is a Princeton Architectural Press publication founded in 1977 "as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing". With … [Read more...]
Chris Marker’s Junkopia
Passed away the last month, Chris Marker will be mostly remembered for his 1962 film La Jetée, a post-apocalyptic tale of time travels constructed … [Read more...]
# OCCUPY BIENNALE # COMMON BATTLE GROUND
If you're in Venice tomorrow August 28th, pay a visit to the Sale Docks (Magazzini del Sale, Dorsoduro 265, near Punta della Dogana). Among other … [Read more...]
A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)
Kindly offered by the artist and architect Maurizio Cilli through his facebook account and mostly based upon the Game of the Goose. This collection … [Read more...]
Enzo Mari “Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat” (1967)
A work of the great Italian designer Enzo Mari: Struttura 895, Omaggio a Fadat (1967) (64 lamps, 64 switches, plexiglas and steel support, 87,5 x … [Read more...]
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