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...]
“Art is a mixture between concept and discipline”: Hanne Darboven
Hanne Darboven was a German prominent conceptual artist, whose most known works were large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten … [Read more...]
How to use infographics to tell a story
Soviet era propaganda done with infographics. Thanks Simone de Iacobis, Via: Ripetungi Rise in the national material welfare, … [Read more...]
Mikhail Okhitovich and the Disurbanism
Mikhail Okhitovich was a singular figure in Soviet architecture of the 20's and 30's. As a Bolshevik sociologist, town planner and Constructivist … [Read more...]
Arabic Machines: Early Schematics
Water powered systems, pulleys and gearing mechanisms, images from an arabic manuscript, datable from the 16th to 19th century. Sources: Max Planck … [Read more...]
Lectures on Ventilation (1869)
XIX Century studies of air movement through various rooms: illustrations from Lectures on Ventilation, "Man's own breath is his greatest enemy", by … [Read more...]
Exploring the interiors of London Underground/DLR stations
Andrew Godwin, a British programmer, is working on a set of navigable 3d maps of London's tube stations. This is arguably an early version of … [Read more...]
Central Library Rotterdam, Jaap Bakema – 1977-1983
A pure late 70's wonder, which combined Pompidou-style yellow round pipes with the glass cascade used previously by James Stirling for his University … [Read more...]
Duga-3, a Giant Abandoned Radio Structure Within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Just a few miles away from the exploded nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, stands a huge Soviet abandoned rectangular antenna made by an array of … [Read more...]
Grand Finale, [all 135 Space Shuttle Launches]
All 135 Space Shuttle launches, played simultaneously, including, for morbid viewers, the "major malfunction" one (2nd row, 6th video from the … [Read more...]
Bringing the Atom into the American Homes: Erik Nitsche illustrations for General Dynamics
"Who is this guy doing the Bauhaus in New York?" - László Moholy-Nagy Art director, book designer, illustrator, typographer, graphic … [Read more...]
The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei
An epicenter of polemics since its birth, the Centre Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied its … [Read more...]
Atlas for the Blind, 1837
From the spectacular David Rumsey Map Collection, the 1837 "Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind", embossed heavy paper … [Read more...]
LUFTSCHLOSS, (Castle in the Air) by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk
Luftschloss (Castle in the air) is an installation realized by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk on Alice-Solomon-Platz in Berlin Hellersdorf during the … [Read more...]
MinJeong Ahn, An Autobiography in Diagrams
Ahn Min Jeong writes: "My work appears to be emotionless and analytic, but when you take a close look at it, the majority of my work employs motifs … [Read more...]
Poles of Inaccessibility
A pole of inaccessibility is an extreme point of Earth which is hard to reach due to its remoteness to geographical features that could provide … [Read more...]
Lotta Nieminen, Helsinki (2010)
Lotta Nieminen is a designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland, living and working in Brooklyn, NY . "Helsinki" is a series of illustrated … [Read more...]
Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650
Just yesterday we quoted an Athanasius Kircher's excerpt from his Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650). This seminal works of musicology in two volumes … [Read more...]
Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)
Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]
Comparing Urbanization
Berkeley's Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]
Yoichiro Kamei, Ceramic Works
We're sorry for the recent problems of access to Socks, but we experienced an unexpected burst of traffic that overcame our web-hosting capabilities. … [Read more...]
Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)
This is one the first (if not the very first) practical astronomy books published in Germany. "Astronomisches Handbuch" appeared in 1718, edited and … [Read more...]
The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)
An interesting lecture -in Italian- from an almost 35 years old issue of Ottagono, (an Italian architecture and design magazine still living today) … [Read more...]
The book of Fortresses, a XVI Century Codex of Defensive Structures
The "Livro das fortalezas situadas no extremo de Portugal e Castela por Duarte de Armas, escudeiro da casa do rei D. Manuel I" is an analysis, dating … [Read more...]
Lyrical Theatre in Cagliari, Maurizio Sacripanti, 1965
Among Italian avantgarde architects of the 60's and 70's, Maurizio Sacripanti was one of those who gained a lesser fortune. Known almost uniquely for … [Read more...]
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