"I want to share with you something I've learned. I'll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the … [Read more...]
Geometry of the Venetian Gondola
Developed in the mid-19th-century, the sections of the boat are asymmetric, in order to balance the weigth of the gondoliere, who stands one side of … [Read more...]
Surreal duotone illustrations by Shigeru Miwa
From the book Ony One Me, by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, illustrated by Shintaro Miwa (Balloon-sha editions). This one and the other two books … [Read more...]
Manuel Palou: 5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte, 2011
A work with interesting content, indeed: 1 TB hard drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the included … [Read more...]
Construire en montagne (To build on the mountain)
"Does it exist an architecture of mountains?" Manuel Pauli, 'Constructions en montagne', L 'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui nr. 126 (1966), pp. … [Read more...]
Stone on Stone, by Rob Carter
robcarter.net/ “Stone On Stone” is a stop-motion video animation that uses the architectural language of High Gothic and Modernism to invent a … [Read more...]
“Can you hear me, Major Tom?” (David Bowie’s Space Oddity as a children’s book)
The sad story of Space Oddity, by David Bowie, illustrated by Andrew Kolb. Download here or here. (links updated 2015/09/12) DAVID … [Read more...]
Ali Ferzat, Syrian political cartoonist
Syrian satirical cartoonist Ali Ferzat was beaten up and got his hands broken as a warning to stop his caricatures. Following the request by Marco … [Read more...]
Ursus Wehrli, or the importance of being compulsively tidy
Swiss artist and comedian Ursus Wehrli visually organizes things. Check his latest book, “The Art of Clean Up”. He became famous thanks to his … [Read more...]
James Corner and Alex S. Maclean: Taking Measures Across The American Landscape (1996)
"The techniques of representation are never neutral and architecture’s abstract means of imagining and realizing form leave their traces on the work. … [Read more...]
Stan Allen: Diagrams of Field Conditions, 1996
“All grids are fields, but not all fields are grids. One of the potentials of the field is to redefine the relation between figure and ground. If we … [Read more...]
What if New York City were hit by a category 3 hurricane?
A 2007 retrofuture competition, recalled on fb by Cameron Sinclair (Architecture for Humanity): "In 2007 our NYC chapter worked with the city to … [Read more...]
Irene (August 26th, 2011)
Tom Waits: Goodnight Irene Click for original 3072x3072px size on Nasa Goddard flickr. … [Read more...]
The Willy Grasser (1923) and other illustrations by Sidney Sime
Sidney Sime (1867 – May 22, 1941) was an English artist in the late Victorian and succeeding periods, mostly remembered for his fantastic and … [Read more...]
Osamu Tezuka B/W Phoenix drawings
Phoenix (火の鳥 Hi no Tori) is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered Phoenix his “life’s work”; it consists of 12 books, each of which tells … [Read more...]
Teaching environmental sculpture to children
In 1975 John Lidstone and Clarence Bunch unveiled the pedagogic potential of environmental actions, specializing ideas of artist like Ant Farm, Otto … [Read more...]
Vestirsi è facile / Dressing is easy, Archizoom on Casabella 1973
Looking among my dad's old numbers of Casabella, I've found lots of interesting and not-very-known articles by 70's Italian radical architects. We'll … [Read more...]
Vintage synths catalogues and brochures
When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for scientific research. Roland, Synclavier, Arp, DA … [Read more...]
Orbital Space Colonies (in form of geometric primitives)
TORUS DESIGN The Stanford Torus was the principal design considered by the 1975 NASA Summer Study, which was conducted in conjunction with Stanford … [Read more...]
Dr. Pierre Pâte Dentifrice
Mural in France, (Versailles?) from the 1920's overgrown over time. (Photographed by Deidi Von Schaewen) Click to zoom. Via: Betonbabe … [Read more...]
Oma’s performance in “A Slice of Modernity / Casa Palestra, The domestic project”, 1986 Milan Triennale
All above images from OMA's page on Facebook Text from OMA.eu: In the beginning of the 1980s modern architecture was always presented as lifeless, … [Read more...]
Real Paper Architecture, on Lebbeus Woods
Here's the full commentary by Lebbeus Woods, worth a read. Thanks Ethel for the link. When rummaging though her extensive library, Aleksandra … [Read more...]
Phase IV, (1974) the only Saul Bass feature film
From Wikipedia: Due to some unknown cosmic event, listed in "phases," ants have undergone rapid evolution and developed a hive mind. A scientific … [Read more...]
More on the Harmonic Synthesizer, and on the Harmonic Analyser
Harmonic Synth Lord Kelvin's harmonic synthesizer is basically Henrici's harmonic analyzer (see later) in reverse. Originally designed as a tide … [Read more...]
Steampunk looking but actually old Harmonic Synthesizer
The Harmonic Synthesizer is an the lobby of the McLennan physics building, University of Toronto. Here’s the description from the accompanying … [Read more...]
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