We don't use to post our own projects here on Socks, but this one just won the prestigious Think-Space | Moral borders competition (ex-aequo with two … [Read more...]
Why Start an Architecture Journal in an Age That is Disgusted with (Most of Them), by Françoise Fromonot
Françoise Fromonot is an architect, teacher and critic. She is professor at the ENSA Paris-Belleville, Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice … [Read more...]
Maria Luisa Corapi’s “Davanti a un’opera” (Facing an artwork)
Maria Luisa Corapi's series of photographs "Davanti a un'opera" (Facing an artwork), explores that instantaneous relationship occurring between an … [Read more...]
Philipp Schaerer, Bildbauten series, 2007- 2009
Swiss artist Philipp Schaerer creates images which aim to reflect a built exaggerated reality, using digital editing techniques in order to obtain a … [Read more...]
Denis Andernach’s architectural drawings
Taking inspirations from Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, Denis Andernach, architect and illustrator living and working in Germany, draws houses as … [Read more...]
Paul Klee, Pedagogical sketchbook, 1968
Based on his 1921 to 1931 lectures on visual form at Bauhaus Staatliche Art School, and on the over 3000 handwritten pages of notes, the sketchbook … [Read more...]
NEU-YORK, a psycho-geographical cartography of alternate history
This is how New York could have turn to, had America been conquered by Nazis in the 40's. A project by Melissa Gould (MeGo). "NEU-YORK … [Read more...]
Emilio Ambasz, Las Promesas, 1975
A project for a Center for Applied Computer Research and Programming in Las Promesas, near Mexico City, published in the May 1975 number of … [Read more...]
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Domu
The chilling 1983 manga "Domu, a child's dream" , by Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira's fame, revolves around a child and an old man conducting telekinetic … [Read more...]
Elias Zenghelis: The Aesthetics of the Present, 1988
A beautiful article signed Zenghelis on the 1988 Architectural Design monograph "Deconstruction in Architecture" (AD profile #72, published as part of … [Read more...]
Construction 1, by Z.E.Fudge
"Z.E. Fudge is an Artist and Architect. Working as an Architect and Technical Illustrator for the last 10 years, her new work appropriates … [Read more...]
Kitchen actions diagrams
Click to zoom: Increasing disorder in a dining table. Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till. Study of kitchen use. Tom Fotheringam, … [Read more...]
“A Home is not a House”, by Reyner Banham and François Dallegret, 1965
Six drawings have been realized by French architect and artist François Dallegret when asked in 1965 by Magazine Art in America to illustrate the … [Read more...]
Wheatstone Wave Machine, c. 1875, Physics Dept., Union College, NY. maker: Rudolph Koenig
In the late 1840s Charles Wheatstone developed a moving mechanical model for demonstrating wave properties of light and sound. It displayed both … [Read more...]
La città capitalista, by Giovanni Brino
An ambitious title for a 1978 obscure yet brilliantly illustrated book by italian scholar studying urban planning in UCLA Giovanni Brino. Just … [Read more...]
150 years of technological evolution from Italy
Vittorio Marchis, teacher of History of Technology and History of material culture, is the author of a book that will be published next Nov 2nd, … [Read more...]
Ruins of the abyss
Ethel Baraona, whose always interesting articles and links we particularly missed during these two weeks of no-internet, points towards this post on … [Read more...]
The Alphabet and the Algorithm, by Mario Carpo
Mario Carpo's work focuses on the relationships between architectural theory, cultural studies and media technologies. Head of the Study Centre at … [Read more...]
“Roma Interrotta” a lecture at ESA-Paris by Léa-Catherine Szacka
Next Saturday, at the ESA - Ecole Spécial d'Architecture (254, Bd Raspail, 75014 Paris), Léa-Catherine Szacka will present his researc work on famous … [Read more...]
An appropriation is a type of inhabitation: Keg Apartment, by Aristide Antonas
We have long wanted to publish Aristide Antonas projects, either for their strong conceptual and aesthetic value. We start here with the Keg … [Read more...]
Tigers Factory, by Mayumi Otero
Illustration for the newspaper Le Tigre numéro 5. mayumiotero.com … [Read more...]
Solving the difficult problem of landing on a roof
Not much more that flight was actually invented, people soon started imagining a very possible future of regular personal flights. Of course, it … [Read more...]
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces – William H. Whyte
Some time ago, friend Luca Diffuse sent us a smart 1979 documentary called The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, directed by William H. … [Read more...]
The Museum of all Museums, Federico Soriano & Asociados
Only a few buildings emerge outside, in Soriano's entry for the new Taipei City Museum of Art. But once inside, hidden under a garden of bamboo, … [Read more...]
The implausible futurist: Steven M. Johnson
Since the 70's, Steven M. Johnson, (not to be confused with the almost homonymous Steven B. Johnson ) amused himself drawing utopian products on … [Read more...]
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