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...]
Computer Graphics’ Archaeology: the HP 9845C Demo
The Hp 9845C , introduced in 1981, was the top-of-the-line model of the 9845 series, it was the very first HP computer supporting color and it was … [Read more...]
Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972
In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers, equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]
Architecture Without Humans
Factory Futures, (Architecture Without Humans), a studio of AA Visiting School at Ivrea, directed by Tommaso Franzolini, Maria S. Giudici, Pierre … [Read more...]
Mas Yendo: Machines for Living in The End of Times
“What I speculate in my work is that new technologies will play an important part in how architects embrace new ideas. The advancement of seemingly … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]
Across the Space Frontier, (1952)
A 50's publication on the space age, before 'real' space age was even started. Among the illustrations and cutaways of space stations, rockets and … [Read more...]
The Social Use of the Kitchen (from Ottagono 48/1978)
An interesting lecture -in Italian- from an almost 35 years old issue of Ottagono, (an Italian architecture and design magazine still living today) … [Read more...]
Kugelhaus, by John William Ludowici
John William Ludowici (1896 - 1983), inventor and engineer, invented the Ball House in the 1950's. The house was intended for emergency situation, … [Read more...]
Architecture of Aggression: Buildings, Ideology and Media during Wartime (Casabella 394/1974)
The following is an illustrated review (on a 1974 number of Casabella), of a research on military architecture published by a group of students of the … [Read more...]
“Linea Ex Machina” / Questioning Architectural Representation, a project by Nelson Larroque
Nelson Larroque's final degree project, made under the supervision of Peter Cook at ESA in Paris, consists literally in a device designed and built … [Read more...]
Ugo La Pietra, La Casa Telematica, 1971
Dpr-barcelona Flickr sets are already worth visiting, but check out this collection about Ugo La Pietra's La Casa Telematica. (and if you're in Paris … [Read more...]
Studio Magazine features “Tower of Joy”, by Leopold Lambert
Check out this interesting episode in digital and on paper architectural zines world: Studio Magazine. Last issue (01), entitled [from] CRISIS … [Read more...]
La città capitalista, by Giovanni Brino
An ambitious title for a 1978 obscure yet brilliantly illustrated book by italian scholar studying urban planning in UCLA Giovanni Brino. Just … [Read more...]
Ruins of the abyss
Ethel Baraona, whose always interesting articles and links we particularly missed during these two weeks of no-internet, points towards this post on … [Read more...]
The implausible futurist: Steven M. Johnson
Since the 70's, Steven M. Johnson, (not to be confused with the almost homonymous Steven B. Johnson ) amused himself drawing utopian products on … [Read more...]
Ettore Sottsass Jr. – The Planet As A Festival, 1972
A pop utopia on Casabella #365, 1972. Second episode on our proposal of 60's and 70's articles from what (once) was an Italian radical … [Read more...]
Play for Conspiracy
Tamiya, producers of plastic and resin kits and accessories for modellers, have released a set of print advertisements featuring conspiracies around … [Read more...]
The Museum of Obsolete Objects
The MOOO makes an interesting use of YouTube, in order to provide informations on our immediate past. A walk down memory lane on things replaced by … [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...]
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...]
Citroën Karin and Citroën Xenia concept cars, by Trevor Fiore
Having no new models to reveal at the 1980 Paris Salon, Citroën stylist Trevor Fiore was given the go ahead to build a model (not a driveable car) for … [Read more...]
I hate myself and I want to DIY* Ken Isaacs: How to build your own living structures
How To Build Your Own Living Structures is an out-of-print manual of utopian architecture from 1974 created by American architectural experimenter Ken … [Read more...]
