L’architecture de la voie. Histoire et Théories (“The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories”) is the bold title of a French volume that Éric … [Read more...]
S.Tigerman and G.L. Crabtree: The Formal Generators of Structure, 1975
"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
In 1974, Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi developed the theme of fireworks as an architectural manifesto. Fostering a fierce reaction against the … [Read more...]
Section Drawings by Céline Jesberger and Pierre-Louis Filippi
Two former students of ours, at the Atelier we teached in with Luca Galofaro two years ago, (dedicated to "Religion"), Céline and Pierre-Louis proved … [Read more...]
“Silent Architecture” by Simon Ungers
Simon Ungers (1957-2006), son of O.M. Ungers, bound architecture and art throughout his career. His series "Silent architecture" … [Read more...]
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was an Argentinian conceptual artist who worked with a series of extremely different medias through the years. … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
A Building is an Island is a Building: The Île Seguin Renault Factory in Paris
In 1919 Louis Renault, a talented engineer and head of the « Société des Automobiles Renault» began to acquire the "Île Seguin", an island in the … [Read more...]
Colourful Interior Design for the Sonneveld House (Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, 1929-1933)
After the 1929 stock market crash, no big architectural commission was in sight for Dutch architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. Thus the … [Read more...]
A Revolution in Stage Design: Drawings and Productions of Adolphe Appia
Adolphe Appia, (1862-1928) was a Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor. His theories and realized works … [Read more...]
Evolutionary Housescape: the Metabolist Sky House by Kiyonori Kikutake (1958)
The house the Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) designed and built for himself in 1958, still stands out as a monument to his … [Read more...]
The World Explained by Kappa Senoo
Kappa Senoo (1930) is a Japanese graphic designer, a successfull set designer, essayist and novelist. A 1997 autobiographical book depicting … [Read more...]
Drawings and Visions by (Other) Italian Futurist Architects
In 1914 Antonio Sant'Elia signed the "Manifesto per un'architettura futurista", a text coming a few years later the more known "Manifesto del … [Read more...]
The Imaginary Town of an Unconscious Architect: The 387 Paper Model Houses of Peter Fritz
Although the 2013 Venice Art Biennale ended almost two weeks ago, we'd like to talk about one of the artworks that impressed us … [Read more...]
House Within a House /1: Todoroki Residence by Hiromi Fujii, Ichikawa (1976)
Hiromi Fujii (1937) is a Japanese architect who started his career in 1964 collaborating with Italian architect Angelo Mangiarotti … [Read more...]
An Ancient Example of Cluster Planning: Pit Houses and Kivas in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The ruins of the pueblos in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, (villages founded by ancient Native American communities, Ancient Pueblo people, … [Read more...]
A Forgotten Masterwork: Cinema Airone in Rome by Libera with Capogrossi (1952-56)
In the late 1940’s a trapezoidal lot in the then underdeveloped Appio-Latino quartier in Rome was destined to housing and architects Calini and … [Read more...]
“Must it Stay that Way?” Critical Posters by Gunter Rambow (1971)
In 1971, German graphic designer and photographer Gunter Rambow produced a series of posters tackling the failing realm of urban planning and building … [Read more...]
Holiday Machine in Tropea, Italy (1967) by Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio)
In the final diploma project of Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (later to become a member of the Italian architectural collective Superstudio), … [Read more...]
“Is all Architecture Truly Political?” A response to Quilian Riano by Ross Wolfe
Gunter Rambow, “Utopie Dynamit” (1976) If a mantra could define present-day architectural debate, that would surely be the self-assertive claim that … [Read more...]
Seventy ‘Tana’ or ‘Tokowaki’ Variations, in Tetsuro Yoshida’s ‘The Japanese House’ (1935)
Japanese architect Tetsuro Yoshida (1894–1956) was a key figure of architectural interchange between East and West during the early 1930's. … [Read more...]
Hans Poelzig’s Sulphuric Acid Factory in Luboń, Poland (1911-1912)
In a parallel with Ross Wolfe, (yet purely coincidential) we publish here an early industrial work of architect Hans Poelzig, one … [Read more...]
A 50 x 50 House for Mass Production (1951): An Unbuilt Project By L. Mies Van Der Rohe
Mies van der Rohe addressed the question of mass-housing in his unbuilt project, the 50x50 feet House (50 feet is almost 16m) in 1951. Conceived as a … [Read more...]
Applying the Cadavre Exquis: The Competition for the Dutch Parliament Extension, OMA (Koolhaas, Zenghelis, Zaha Hadid) – 1978
The surrealist theorem of the Cadavre Exquis was studied and applied by Rem Koolhaas since the beginning of his architectural … [Read more...]
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