The real Instant City
Archigram’s Instant City. (Woostercollective.com) Instant City, from Archigram’s web page With regard to urban morphology, the origins of “estrangement” get to Julio Verne (his name in Spanish version), who […]
Archigram’s Instant City. (Woostercollective.com) Instant City, from Archigram’s web page With regard to urban morphology, the origins of “estrangement” get to Julio Verne (his name in Spanish version), who […]
Detail of Tim Hawkinson’s painting. Web download. In his book “The eyes of the skin. Architecture and the Senses”, Juhani Pallasmaa emphasizes the significance of the tactile sense for our […]
Fig. 01. Internet downloadFig. 02. Internet download Fig.03. Internet download Immaterial architecture is more a state of mind than a tectonic quality. Architecture theory leans towards abstraction, virtuality, immateriality, the […]
This picture has been downloaded from Kusturica’s web page. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… A literal example of immateriality in architecture is taken from the “ethno cinema”, precisely a scene in Emir Kusturica’s movie […]
LANDSCAPE BY FATHER KIRCHER. In the seventeenth century, Father Kircher conceived the idea of taking up Dinocrates’ plan upon a small scale, and composed the landscape shown in Fig. 1. […]
Nüremberg The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated Biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western […]
Mr. Ron Neumeyer Delta, Canada Specimen: Blowfly Proboscis Technique: BrightfieldIs it a dome? I remember one of our colleague professors had a picture in the bathroom, beautiful illustrations of a […]