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The Underlying Structure of Letters: Luca Pacioli’s Alphabet from De Divina Proportione (1509)

October 27, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franciscan friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli wrote several books on mathematics and geometry. Among them, in 1497, Pacioli conceived De Divina … [Read more...]

Inhabiting a Three-Dimensional Grid: The “Railway Sleeper House” by Shin Takasuga

March 6, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1970, Japanese architect Shin Takasuga designed a house in the middle of the forest on the Pacific Ocean's island of Miyake. Students of the New … [Read more...]

Playhouse of Straw (Peter Stackpole on LIFE Magazine – June 1956)

March 9, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This very short article about a children building construction kit made of drinking straws, was illustrated by the photographs of Peter Stackpole and … [Read more...]

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