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Abstract Layers of Territory: Maps by David Lemm

February 3, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

David Lemm is a visual artist and designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His production ranges widely from illustrations to collages, multi-media … [Read more...]

Clusters and Growth: PREVI Housing Project by James Stirling (1976)

January 20, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda), (Experimental Housing Project), was a strategic low-cost project for experimental mass housing in Peru, … [Read more...]

John Mehegan, Jazz Improvisation (1959-65)

January 9, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Jazz Improvisation is a series of 4 books edited by pianist, composer, lecturer, and critic John Mehegan between 1959 and 1965. Today considered … [Read more...]

The Thersilion in Megalopolis, Greece (370 BCE)

December 27, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Greek city of Megalopolis was founded between 371 and 368 BC in order to provide a counterweight to the power of Sparta and shortly belonged … [Read more...]

Luigi Moretti’s Structures and Sequences of Spaces (1952)

December 9, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

In 1952, Italian architect Luigi Moretti wrote an editorial for the 7th issue of the Italian magazine Spazio, (which he directed and designed), titled … [Read more...]

The Architecture of Cooking. Illustrations from: Urbain Dubois, La Cuisine Artistique, 1872

December 2, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Urbain Dubois (1818-1901) was a French chef, an innovator of the art of the cuisine and a prolific author. During his life, he authored a series of … [Read more...]

The Origins of The Plan: Forma Urbis Romae (between 203 and 211 CE)

November 4, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Forma Urbis Romae or Forma Urbis Severiana was a very large map of the imperial city of Rome (18 m long by 13 m high) carved on 151 marble slabs … [Read more...]

The Lenin Institute for Librarianship by Ivan Leonidov (1927)

October 30, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Ivan Illich Leonidov (1902-1957) designed the Lenin Institute for Librarianship (the collective scientific and cultural center of the USSR) in 1927 as … [Read more...]

Ana Frois, Greenhouses (2015-17)

October 21, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Ana Frois is a Portuguese architect and self-taught illustrator. Her drawings place together archetypal architectures with natural elements and small … [Read more...]

Monumental, Yet So Fragile: Arctic Landscapes by Emma Stibbon

October 14, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

German-born artist Emma Stibbon did her studies in England, where she currently works. Her production is mostly composed of monochrome drawings on … [Read more...]

Fausto Melotti, Weightless Constructions (1960’s – 1980’s)

October 8, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

“A score of weightless ideograms like water insects that seem to whirl on a brass structure screened by gauze thread”. Italo Calvino, Gli Effimeri. … [Read more...]

The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)

September 27, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home … [Read more...]

When Vision becomes Space: Athanasius Kircher’s Camera Obscura (1646)

September 11, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In his magnum opus on light, projections, and astronomy, Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae ("the Great Art of Light and Shadows," polymath Jesuit scholar and … [Read more...]

Irena Gajic’s 100 Houses

August 28, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture … [Read more...]

Architectura Curiosa Nova, by Georg Andreas Böckler (1664)

August 17, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Georg Andreas Böckler, a German architect and engineer, wrote the books Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661) and Architectura Curiosa Nova … [Read more...]

Plans of Warfare: Figures from Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Art of War

August 10, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Written between 1519 and 1520, Dell'arte della guerra (The Art of War) was the only historical-political essay published by Niccolò Machiavelli during … [Read more...]

The Multiple Shapes of Abstract Thinking: Prints by Jesus Perea

July 27, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Jesùs Perea is a Spanish visual artist with a background in graphic design and illustration and extensive production of abstract prints and frequent … [Read more...]

Spaces Left Behind: Paintings by Zsofia Schweger

July 1, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Zsofia Schweger is a Hungarian artist who currently lives and works in London. Her still life paintings of empty interior spaces talk subtly about the … [Read more...]

A Downsized Manhattan Between Analogy and Abstraction: “Roosevelt Island Housing, competition” by O.M. Ungers (1975).

June 24, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1975, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers took part in the “Roosevelt Island Housing", a competition sponsored by the State’s Urban Development … [Read more...]

Imaginary Places for Mundane Activities: Works by Max Guther

June 19, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Max Guther is a German illustrator who constructs imaginary worlds through axonometric projections. His images usually depict details from urban views … [Read more...]

The Search for the “Open Form”: The Extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery by Oskar and Zofia Hansen (1958)

June 15, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The project for the extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery was an unbuilt project developed by Polish architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen, with Lech … [Read more...]

Irena Gajic, Nine Rooms To Die In. (2016)

June 13, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Belgrade-based Irena Gajic clearly reveals her architectural background in her illustrations. Most of her works, commissioned by magazines and by … [Read more...]

Espen Vatn Et Al: In Hannes Meyer Pockets: 12 Life Factories, 2014

June 6, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

I had the pleasure of meeting Norwegian architect Espen Vatn in Chicago at his lecture at the UIC School of Architecture in 2018. Among the many … [Read more...]

The Eastern Workers Village at Amarna (c. 1349-1332 BCE)

May 22, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The Eastern Workers village at Amarna in Egypt (c. 1349-1332 BCE) was a walled settlement located in the North-East side of the city and intended for … [Read more...]

Visual Groups and Cluster Planning, The Pendrecht District in Rotterdam by the Opbouw (1949-1956)

March 21, 2018 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The urban plan for the district of Pendrecht, in the south of Rotterdam, is one of the most representative projects of the urban theories developed in … [Read more...]

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