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The Temporary Inhabitant (L’Habitant Temporaire) by Thomas Batzenschlager

August 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

"L’Habitant Temporaire" is a project by Thomas Batzenschlager, a French architect living and working in Santiago (Chile), which takes the form of an … [Read more...]

Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka

August 27, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

Tomoyuki Tanaka is a Japanese architect who creates mesmerizing x-ray drawings of Tokyo's major stations. These are precise ballpoint pen descriptions … [Read more...]

Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)

August 26, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]

Manufacturing Nature: “Trees by Man” by Michael Amery

August 25, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Michael Amery is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa with a graphic design background. His series of drawings in charcoal and India ink called … [Read more...]

Monuments for a Future Civilization: Paintings by Minoru Nomata

August 23, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Japanese artist Minoru Nomata graduated from the Design Department of Tokyo University of the Arts and started working as a painter at the end of the … [Read more...]

Brutal Domesticity: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens (1974)

August 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The residence in Sint-Martens-Latem near Ghent was designed by Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens for the teacher Albert Van Wassenhove in 1974. The … [Read more...]

A Visual Compendium of the Real World: Illustrations by Takeda Yoshifumi

August 21, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Takeda Yoshifumi is a Japanese illustrator and painter currently base in Tokyo. His work consists mostly of small, detailed illustrations with a … [Read more...]

“Make Mountains” by Mark Lazenby

August 20, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Mark Lazenby is a collage artist and graphic designer with a large and multifaceted production. For his series "Make mountains" the silhouette of a … [Read more...]

“The most vivid, built example of Venturi’s contradiction in architecture”: Ni-Ban-Kahn by Minoru Takeyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo (1970)

August 19, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

In 1970 Japanese architect Minoru Takeyama designed a building in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, simply called the Ni-Ban-Kahn (Building Number Two), while his … [Read more...]

The Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma (1966)

July 22, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

Built in Tokyo in 1966, the Tower house by Japanese architect Takamitsu Azuma is developed around a staircase which distributes its six levels. The … [Read more...]

A Monument to Endless Space: Manifold Garden by William Chyr

July 18, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

William Chyr is currently designing and developing an independent game set in a parallel universe where the physical laws are completely differents … [Read more...]

Illustrating through Parallel Lines: Works by Owen D. Pomery

July 17, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Owen D. Pomery has an  educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for … [Read more...]

Giulio Paolini’s Set Design for Teorema (1999)

July 14, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

On the occasion of the staging of the ballet Teorema in 1999, (produced by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino from an adaptation of the novel and film … [Read more...]

“Habitat and the City”: Competition Entry by Neutelings, Wall, De Geyter and Roodbeen (1990)

July 13, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1990 the "Competition Habitatge i Ciutat" (Housing and City) was promoted by the review Quaderns of Barcelona. The entry by W.J. Neutelings, A. … [Read more...]

Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier (1977)

July 12, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Alvin Lucier (1931, -) is a major American composer. He pioneered areas of sound art such as using brain waves in live performances, tracking … [Read more...]

Wolfgang Laib’s Research of Forms

July 11, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Wolfgang Laib is a German artist who explores a set of minimal forms through installations that are mostly realized using natural elements like … [Read more...]

3 Projects for Schools by Carlo Chiappi (1967-1969)

July 9, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Architect Carlo Chiappi (1939-2001) was an important figure in Florence during the years that led to the formation of the avant-garde generation … [Read more...]

The Limits of Rationality: Impossibly Thin Table by Junya Ishigami (2006)

July 7, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami was able to stress the potential of architectural thinking at every scale, since its very first solo project, an … [Read more...]

Disintegrating Digital Images: Laura Charlton’s Prints

July 5, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Laura Charlton is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with silkscreen prints and monoprints The abstraction in her print works is obtained by … [Read more...]

J.N.L.Durand’s “Divers Édifices publics, d’après le Champ de Mars de Piranese” in “Recueil et parallèle des édifices de tout genre, anciens et modernes” (1800)

July 3, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand's "Recueil et parallèle" is a musée imaginaire of world architecture. A large folio of 63 plates measuring 51x66 … [Read more...]

S.Tigerman and G.L. Crabtree: The Formal Generators of Structure, 1975

July 2, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"The Formal Generators of Structure" is a sequence of drawings which explore orthogonal forms. The research starts from the square and the cross, two … [Read more...]

Fireworks at Parc de la Villette, Paris, by Bernard Tschumi, 1992

July 1, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

In 1974, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi developed the theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. Fostering a fierce reaction against the … [Read more...]

John Hejduk’s Diamond House A (1963-1967)

June 30, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

  In 1962 architect and educator John Hejduk (1929-2000) started a six-year investigation on the architectural implications of the "diamond … [Read more...]

Understanding How Something is Created: the Drawing Process of Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu

June 29, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Belgian architectural office "Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu" (A DVVT) uses to produce a wide range of architectural drawings that cannot be … [Read more...]

Ordinary Buildings, Reassembled by Oliver Michaels

June 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

English photographer Oliver Michaels creates images through the composition of different architectural elements as found in specific places. The … [Read more...]

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