"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...]
Scissors Series by Chiara Dattola
Personal sorrow gave our dear friend Chiara Dattola the strength to produce her more intense drawings so far. "I like scissors. Lately I've started … [Read more...]
Sculptural Cartography: How The Marshall Islands Inhabitants Used Stick Charts to Map the Waves
The stick charts were the main tool the Marshallese used to navigate on canoe across the islands of the Pacific Ocean, until WWII. Lacking … [Read more...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [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...]
Monopoly before Monopoly: A Board Game as a Critical Device
"Children of nine or ten years (...) learn that the quickest way to accumulate wealth and gain power is to get all the land they can in the … [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...]
E.L. Youmans’s “Chemical Atlas: Or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects” (1854)
"Every experienced teacher understands the necessity of making the acquisition of the elementary and foundation principles upon which a … [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...]
Jivya Soma Mashe and the Controversial Exhibition ‘Les Magiciens de la Terre’ ( Paris, 1989)
Jivya Soma Mashe is a central figure in Indian tribal art, as he was the one who turned the Warli tribal art from a predominantly … [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...]
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...]
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...]
Amancio Williams’s Bridge House (Casa del puente), 1943-45
One of the first built works of the Argentinian architect Amancio Williams was the house for his father, the musician and composer Alberto Williams. … [Read more...]
An Unbuilt Project by L. Kahn: The Library of the Washington University
In 1956, architect Louis Kahn was invited to take part in the competition for "The Olin Library", a 200.000 square feet building in Washington. The … [Read more...]
Bruno Taut: The City Crown (1919)
Second part of our series of posts on Bruno Taut, after "Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)" This is a translated version of part of … [Read more...]
“Before and After Science” and the Eno/Schmidt collaboration
According to Wikipedia, Peter Schmidt was "a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia … [Read more...]
“The true story of Mr Like”, By Nanni and Colella – Crowdfunding Campaign
As you may have / already / noticed, we particularly like the work of Italian author, illustrator and comic artist Giacomo Nanni, namely his studies … [Read more...]
Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)
Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [Read more...]
John Hejduk: The Riga Project (1987)
This is the catalog of an exhibition held at University of the Arts, The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and the Great Hall, Nov. 20-Dec. 22, 1987. It … [Read more...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]
Visual arts and Space of Involvement (Savioli and Natalini on students’ works) – 1966/67
"Per un nuovo rapporto tra l'utente ed il suo spazio" ("For a new relation between the user and his space") and "Arti visive e spazio di … [Read more...]
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