Gerd Jansen, German … [Read more...]
Kugelhaus, by John William Ludowici
John William Ludowici (1896 - 1983), inventor and engineer, invented the Ball House in the 1950's. The house was intended for emergency situation, … [Read more...]
When Mathias Rust landed on the Red Square, Building an Imaginary Bridge on the Iron Curtain
In the autumn of 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan met in Reykjavík, Iceland, to talk about nuclear disarmament. The summit was a … [Read more...]
Early Days of the Advertising Business
Secrets, humiliations and legends in early days of the adverting industry's explosion, from an article of LIFE Magazine April 28th, 1958. As you may … [Read more...]
19th Century Paper Theater Ephemera
50 Watts (*), Agence Eureka and Geheugen van Nederland made a great work collecting images and samples of 19th Century paper theaters. Scenes from … [Read more...]
Duck and Cover, Nuclear War Awareness campaign
In 1951, shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing, the US Federal government's Civil Defense started producing a series of films and … [Read more...]
Stephen Walter’s Maps
Stephen Walter's maps are the result of an intersection of signs and symbols. In Walter's practice, objects tend to be replaced by their … [Read more...]
Nikolai Lutohin, Sci-fi illustrations from 70’s Yugoslavia
Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine … [Read more...]
Again on “How big really?”
As a follow up to Deconcrete's and our post about a more critical use of BBC tool 'How big really?', another interesting approach would consist in … [Read more...]
How Big Really?
BBC has just released "How Big Really?", a site that allows for the overlay of the dimension of an event onto another geographical territory. That … [Read more...]
Reyner Banham – “L’uomo all’expo” + Piero Sartogo – “Habitat 67” (Casabella 327/’67)
Another "vintage" post, this time from Casabella 327/'67, that will be appreciated, unfortunately, only by our Italian readers. In 1967, right … [Read more...]
Artificial Landscape (La Pietra on Domus 665/1985)
In this text by Ugo La Pietra the urban furniture is the starting point of a project, the elements from which to measure and to define the urban space … [Read more...]
Ugo La Pietra – Per Oggi Basta (“That’s it for today”) and Other Videos
Ugo La Pietra, artist and architect, beginned in the 60's his activity of research and experimentation (through performances, drawings, photography, … [Read more...]
Giacomo Nanni – 21 12 2012
Giacomo Nanni is translating his personal technique of hatches and Moiré patterns from drawings to animations. Best watching in HD. … [Read more...]
OMA’s Très Grande Bibliothèque – (More)
As a companion to previous post, here's more drawings of the same iconic project. From the description of the project: OMA received an … [Read more...]
Strategy of the void: Building the model of OMA’s Très Grande Bibliothèque
"Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue… Its subtext is fuck context." – Rem Koolhaas The CCA in Montréal just opened a retrospective … [Read more...]
Hipcescu. Come and discover the magic
Hipcescu, ‘The city of Thousand Suns’, is spoof urbanism. Conceived by an architect, urban planner and arguably a despot, the city is the result of a … [Read more...]
The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump
"Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)", by American John Stump is a parody of a composition, meant to be impossible to … [Read more...]
Architecture of Aggression: Buildings, Ideology and Media during Wartime (Casabella 394/1974)
The following is an illustrated review (on a 1974 number of Casabella), of a research on military architecture published by a group of students of the … [Read more...]
Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”
Roberto La Forgia is one of those artists whose indisputable talent needs some time to completely bloom. Knowing him since almost six years now we've … [Read more...]
Thomas Carpentier’s “L’homme, mesures de toutes choses”
Thomas Carpentier's graduation project at ESA questions the normatization of the human body proportions introduced by early Modernist Architectural … [Read more...]
Past Forward 2012 / The Peak by Zaha Hadid (Domus 1983)
Friends of Think Space, the annual conceptual competition program from Zagreb, Croatia (see our project Grundrisse), have recently unveiled the theme … [Read more...]
David Gissen’s Reconstruction of the Mound of Vendôme
David Gissen, teacher at CCA, author of Subnature and editor of HTC Experiments, proposed a project of radical reconstruction, a pragmatic statement … [Read more...]
Technologic wizardries at Paris 1900’s Exposition Universelle
Electric machines and light installations, mechanic sidewalks, ramps and escalators, metropolitan lines and hot air ballons were among the urban scale … [Read more...]
The way things go… David Weiss (1946-2012)
Yesterday, one half of our favorite artists' duo has died of cancer. We'd like to celebrate him posting (again) the work for which Fischli/Weiss … [Read more...]
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