Christoph Morlinghaus
Posted by Fabio 18 February 2010
A lovely set of architectural and cityscape photography by Christoph Morlinghaus.
Neil Barrett
Posted by Fabio 8 February 2010
For his Autumn-Winter 2010 collection, British designer Neil Barrett turned to Milanese architectural and design studio Aquili Alberg to help out with the background for the show, see more images here.
INFINITE SPACE: The Architecture of John Lautner
Posted by Fabio 5 February 2010
Infinite Space is a new 90 min documentary about the architectural genius John Lautner. If you are new to the works of Lautner check out his 60s modernist LA landmark Chemosphere.
William O’Brien Jr
Posted by Fabio 27 January 2010
Professor in Architecture and Planning at the MIT William O’Brien Jr has recently created this video showing his proposal for the summer installation ‘Weathers Permitting’, a competition held my MOMA and P.S.1.
Hill House
Posted by Fabio 17 December 2009
Completed in October 2004, the Hill House was designed under challenging conditions generated by modern problems of building on a hillside. Located in Pacific Palisades, California, while the site for the house offers panoramic views from Rustic and Sullivan Canyons to Santa Monica Bay, the irregularly shaped lot is situated on an uneven, downhill slope.
Architectural Wonders
Posted by Fabio 4 December 2009
Shown here are a series of avantgarde architectural drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection. This very collection consists of 205 artworks from the years 1960s to 1970s and was on November 1, 2000 donated to The Museum of Modern Art. Prolific names such as R. Buckminster Fuller, Ron Herron, Rem Koolhaas, Archigram, Superstudio and Ettore Sottsass are to be found in the collection. Truly mesmerizing! read more
Martijn Sandberg
Posted by Fabio 23 November 2009
Martijn Sandberg has designed a typographic pattern for the glass of the Stadshoven Weidevenne Apartment Building, Purmerend, Netherlands. Based on the familiar packing material of protective plastic bubble foil, a sequence of letters in a point raster materializes on the transparent glass of the gallery and balconies: ‘Glass Fragile Handle With Care’.
Architectural Fantasies
Posted by Fabio 6 November 2009
This stunning collection of extravagant architectural drawings can be found at the Yakov Chernikov International Foundation’s website. Yakov Chernikov (1889-1959) was a constructivist architect and graphic designer who was greatly interested in futurist movements and the suprematism of Malevich with whom he was acquainted. read more
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