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)
“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)
“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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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).
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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...]
Human Structures and Architectural Archetypes: Aldo Van Eyck’s Playgrounds (1947 – 1978)
A hugely influential Dutch architect and theorist, Aldo Van Eyck conducted a thirty-years-long (1947 - 1978) research through practice designing … [Read more...]
House “for a society that had nothing”, the Soho House by Alison and Peter Smithson, 1953
In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson designed a house for themselves for an infill site in Colville place in Soho neighborhood, in London, on an area … [Read more...]
Mehr Licht ! by Jochen Gerner (2010)
'Mehr Licht!' (More light!) cried writer and color theorist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe just before dying. Mehr Licht ! is also the title of a … [Read more...]
Pia-Mélissa Laroche, “Hyper demeures” and Other Graphite Drawings
Pia-Mélissa Laroche is an illustrator living and working in Paris, France. Her works, often represented through axonometric projections, depict … [Read more...]
An Inverted Tower: Well of the Citadel of Turin, by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
In his Dictionnaire des termes employés dans la construction ...: volume G.-Z, (1872) Pierre Chabat, wrote: 'Considered from the point of view of … [Read more...]
David Katz’s Psychological Atlas (1948)
David Katz's Psychological Atlas (1948), is a collection of drawings, photographs, diagrams, and charts used by the author, a renowned psychologist … [Read more...]
Peter Eisenman, Notes on Conceptual Architecture. Towards a Definition. (1970)
The issue 78/79 of Design Quarterly (journal published in 1970 by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) was completely dedicated to possible … [Read more...]
Kon Wajiro’s Archaeology of Present Times
Japanese architect, sociologist, and educator Kon Wajiro was living in Tokyo when the violent 1923 earthquake occurred. With his students, he visited … [Read more...]
Ella Webb’s Geological Diagrams
London based artist and illustrator Ella Webb created a complex visual universe starting from two specific inspirations, geology and topography. … [Read more...]
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