Day One is our proposal for a new park in Grønmo (Norway). A former waste disposal site, the new Grønmo is not just a park but a new territory … [Read more...]
The very corporeal infrastructure behind the immaterial network: history of the international submarine cables
Alfonso Desiderio, a journalist of Italian geopolitics magazine Limes, recently published an interesting piece on the submarine cables infrastructure … [Read more...]
Nø City Guide, a monumental work on Shanghai
Our friend Matthieu Duperrex, editor of Urbain-trop Urbain, just released his long awaited monography on the city of Shanghai. The Nø City Guide is … [Read more...]
A phrenology of the artist’s mind: Grayson Perry‘s 2004 “Map of an Englishman”
Exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Grayson Perry's 2004 "Map of an Englishman" is a 120 x 150 cm psychogeographical exploration of the … [Read more...]
Cycle Masturbation Machines, Jan Švankmajer, 1972-1973
A great influence for Terry Gilliam and many other authors, Czech filmaker and surrealism artist Jan Švankmajer drew, in the early 70's, a set of … [Read more...]
London at work and play in the 60’s
What better ending to our five days in London (thanks Giulia and Florian for hosting us!) than to post a pair of videos of the city 50 years … [Read more...]
Celestial Mechanics, by Oronce Fine (1549)
The following images come from the digitalisation of the handwritten manuscript 'La Sphere du Monde..', 1549, by Oronce Fine. From … [Read more...]
David Knight’s Making Planning Popular – A Manifesto
A "growing database of arcane, marginalized, or forgotten planning practices" by David Knight, Making Planning Popular is on show at the Royal College … [Read more...]
Ho Kim’s The Vertical City and Other Works for Peter Cook’s Atelier at ESA
Ho Kim is a brilliant student from Peter Cook's atelier that we met during the students' works exhibition on last 21st of December et ESA. Here are … [Read more...]
Towers of Silence: Zoroastrian Architectures for the Ritual of Death
Zoroastrianism traditionally conceives death as a temporary triumph of evil over good: rushing into the body, the corpse demon contaminates everything … [Read more...]
McKnight Kauffer’s The World in 2030
Edward McKnight Kauffer (14 December 1890 – 22 October 1954) was an influential American-born artist noted for his avant garde graphic design and … [Read more...]
Chris Marker’s La Jetée Study Guide
In the week that will see two landmark Marker's movies out on Blu-ray, Criterion also shares this interesting study guide for junior and senior high … [Read more...]
Livio Dimitriu, Stairwells (1976-78)
Livio Dimitriu is an architect and teacher at Pratt Institute since 1981. He is the founder of the Urban Studies and Architecture Institute (est. … [Read more...]
Cartographic Regression
Here's how the territory of Palestine has shrinked and borders have fragmented from 1917 to present day. A cartographic essay on GOOD. Thanks, Ethel, … [Read more...]
Architecture without contents studio at Mendrisio
Beautiful set posted at NLDR of Ed Ruscha-like architectural landscapes from Architecture Without Contents' studio at Mendrisio. Students : O.A. … [Read more...]
Subterranea, Drawings by Rick Gooding
Practitioner architect, Rick Gooding is also author of the 30 hand drawings that compose Subterranea, an imaginary underground realm of tunnels and … [Read more...]
Taxonomies of Transition: Urban Segregation Maps by Bill Rankin and Eric Fisher
"A taxonomy of transition", (2009) by radical cartographer Bill Rankin is a visual essay on how racial boundaries mark the neighborhoods of a city … [Read more...]
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969
Many years before the Cylindre Sonore, (see previous post), in 1969, Leitner began his research on sound defined space. A room composed of 64 … [Read more...]
Bernhard Leitner’s Le Cylindre Sonore, 1987
Despite living in Paris since 2007 and regularly enjoying a walk in the Park de la Villette, we honestly never happened to find a little sound … [Read more...]
Bunpei Ginza, History of Tokyo
Bunpei Yorifuji, Japanese illustrator and graphic designer. Read IDEA No.347 2011/06: The Garden of Bunpei Yorifuji. … [Read more...]
Stuart Franks’ City in a Building (and other drawings)
Stuart Franks completed his undergraduate architectural degree at the University of Edinburgh and graduated with first-class honours in 2009, before … [Read more...]
Modern Art Oxford’s 50 Years of Art Exhibitions Posters
In fact, the Judd exhibition poster from the previous article is part of a collection of 50 art posters from the Modern Art Oxford … [Read more...]
Larissa Fassler, Les Halles (2011)
At the very moment in which the troubled piece of Parisian urban land is being dismantled again, artist Larissa Fassler tries to preserve the "complex … [Read more...]
Geographical Strips, Cilindrical Projections, Centerfolds
Alexander Trevi of Pruned, whom we thank for linking Socks, has an exceptional obsession we'd like to share: that for long geographical … [Read more...]
Zoe Zenghelis and OMA
Among the four who gave life to the earliest instances of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Zoe Zenghelis is by far the least … [Read more...]
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