(...) the great question today is the question of globalization, the question of the unity of the world. Globalization proposes to us an abstract … [Read more...]
Sophia Martinek’s The Worker
"In this story I wanted to tell the story of a single man. In general I am interested in the mundane everyday life, the routine and unexciting … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo Speaking of Himself
Two days ago Socks featured the work of Mas Yendo. Thanks to Stefano Massa (@doctorcrowd on Twitter) we can update the post with a video interview of … [Read more...]
Olympic Diving Diagrams, from the Stockholm games of 1912
Right after the end of this year Olympic games in London, a little divertissement from the Public Domain Review. From the "Official Report of the … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times
“What I speculate in my work is that new technologies will play an important part in how architects embrace new ideas. The advancement of seemingly … [Read more...]
Oscar Newman’s Underground City Beneath Manhattan
The architect and city planner Oscar Newman, better known for his dreadful "Defensible space theory", (pdf here) also fostered in 1969 the bizarre … [Read more...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
“Utopia”, “The Mediatory City” and “The Struggle for Housing”: Three Issues by Gruppo Strum (1972)
Low popular culture and social activism blend together in this magazine of three issues by Gruppo Strum, commissioned by Moma in 1972. The three … [Read more...]
The Walled City of Shibam, a ‘Manhattan of the desert’
Sometimes ago we wrote about the walled city of Kowloon, a spontaneous, unregulated urban development near Hong Kong. Whereas that one was a … [Read more...]
A False Paris Outside Paris: a ‘City’ Created to be Bombed
With exactly the same title, on 6 November 1920, the story of Sham Paris was revealed by The Illustrated London News. Located in the northern … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA13: Francis Alÿs’ REEL/UNREEL (2011)
"On the 5th of september 2001, the taliban confiscated thousands of reels of film from the Afghan Film Archive and burned them on the outskirts of … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Three Invisible Works
Right after the entrance of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, in a somptuous room where one would expect a big art statement, three works deal almost … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]
The Future of Architecture and other Collages by Nils-Ole Lund
Danish architect, teacher and collage-artist, author of Collage Architecture in 1990, Nils-Ole Lund's fosters the idea that modern architecture … [Read more...]
Otto Dix, Der Krieg (The War) – 1924
First World War was such a traumatic experience for Otto Dix, (he served as a machine-gunner in the Western front from 1914 to 1918) that he later … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Bomb Ponds, by Vandy Rattana
"There is a Khmer proverb that says: you can hear something a thousand times and not know it, yet if you see it with your eyes just once, you know." … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Czechoslovak Radio 1968, by Tamás St. Turba
When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: A Brief History of Collapses, by Mariam Ghani
Starting with this post we dedicate our reviews to artworks that impressed us in Kassel's quinquennial art exhibition dOCUMENTA 13, directed, this … [Read more...]
There’s nothing you can do about it: Short history of the Architect and the Robot, by Gérard Courtieux (1969)
From one of the most impressive issues ever of L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (Nouvel Environnement de l'Homme, 145/1969), a revealing article about the … [Read more...]
Hiroshi Hara, 500x500x500m, A New Type of Residential Cube for 100,000 People (1992)
Hiroshi Hara's "Multilayered Theory of the City" is put into practice through this model for an utopian metropolis. A three-dimensional lattice is … [Read more...]
Across the Space Frontier, (1952)
A 50's publication on the space age, before 'real' space age was even started. Among the illustrations and cutaways of space stations, rockets and … [Read more...]
KRIEGSMASCHINE, BY THNMD – 2012
Our friend THNMD, a very active internet user, just got her Master Degree of Advanced Studies in Spatial Design ZFH at the ZHDK. Congratulating … [Read more...]
Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb? Post-apocalyptic depictions of 80’s Nuclear Paranoia
"Thinking that perhaps some terrible calamity was imminent—a nuclear catastrophe, or a sudden epidemic after a research-laboratory accident—and that … [Read more...]
Stuxnet: Anatomy of the first weapon made entirely out of code
Stuxnet is the first computer virus (precisely a "worm") created to target, study, infect and subvert only industrial systems, namely … [Read more...]
Description of Egypt
Flavius Menu of N-D-L-R just wrote a very interesting post about the "Description de l'Egypte", a series of 23 volumes published after the failed … [Read more...]
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