Wall / Dress
Dressing a building and cladding your wife is not a way to get rid of her. What’s interesting, instead, is that the two ideas are correlated and this is resurfacing in contemporary architecture.
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Richard Serra | The space between art, site and viewer.
Not only a sculptor, Richard Serra is an eclectical artist. His out of reach ability to link site, art and viewer makes him one of the most recognized artist of our time.
Philip Johnson | most POWERFUL / INFLUENTIAL architect of all time
Philip Johnson like you never thought he’d be: self-mocking, hilarious… and wise of course. An inspiring and entertaining talk.
12 times NYC… or some other city with an Empire State Building
By photographer Randy Scott Slavin.
In his work called “Alternate Perspectives” NYC becomes an unknown city of nowhere: only its landmarks are recognizable.
“Portraits of time” | Beth Moon
Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world’s oldest trees for the past 14 years. She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself.
Program-driven architecture through constraints
Design process explained: Seattle library, Dallas theatre, Louisville contemporary art museum and mixed use development.
With program as the core element of architectural design, urban constraints along with regulation, natural boundaries and economic criteria, shape these buildings.
Manmade landscapes (part 1)
Manmade Landscapes.
Human activities, along with their results and effects on the environment, create an anthropic landscape that we’ve come to identify with unspoiled nature: the forest and the grassland are no different from the crops and open mines.
Gabriele Basilico | Photographer of the city from another era
Gabriele Basilico, an architectural photographer from another era: A gallery that will shine a new light on the ordinary of architecture: a dimension of the city often overlooked.
ARCHIST | Architect/Artist >> Greet the Artistar!
ARCHIST (Architect/Artist). How would famous artists design a building?
Illustrator Federico Babina creates the Artistar: can you find the correlation between architect and artist, work of art and architecture?
Here’s our take on his work.
Enter the Mesmerizing World of Rainbow Coloured Maps
Rainbow-colored maps of cities around the world.
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