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March 6, 2013

Grönlund-Nisunen’s Kinetic Art

by fosco lucarelli

contemporary art, electronic arts, technology
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Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen are two artists living and working in Finland.
Their kinetic installations have the appearance of aseptic scientific laboratories for chemistry and physics experiments.

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Liquid Diagram 2010

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Slidepipe 2008

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Reel to Reel 2010

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March 3, 2013

Isometric cross-sections and other drawings by Evan Wakelin

by fosco lucarelli

architecture, illustrations, information graphics, psychogeographies, technology, urban chronicles
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Evan Wakelin is an illustrator and photographer.
He curates Tesseract and another inspiration tumblr.

“I like decayed, vernacular architecture, old Europe, public transport, green roofs, forests, the ocean and space exploration.

My current work is an attempt to capture some of these interests in a detailed, isometric style. The intention is to represent these spaces in a form that can be explored, not framed. In isometric projection, nothing disappears into the distance, you can walk through the drawing as you would in reality.”

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February 28, 2013

Micro-Apartments : Ballardian Living Conditions in Hong Kong City

by fosco lucarelli

architecture, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles
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100,000 of Hong Kong City labourers live in sub-divided apartment units averaging 40 square feet (3.7 sqm), with rents standing up at nearly $1,300 a square foot, 35% higher than New York City.

The Ballardian living conditions in one of the most densely populated city in the world, are documented in a reportage released by the “Society for Community Organization” an HK-based advocacy organization. All the cramped units are depicted from the only vantage point able to capture the entire surface: the ceiling.

Via Me-Fi and Things Magazine.




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February 25, 2013

Soviet Abstract Architecture Blueprints (mid-1920s to early-1930s)

by fosco lucarelli

architecture, politics, virtual chronicles, visions
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Ross Wolfe just published, on his Charnel House, these beautiful blueprints by early Soviet architects Ivan Leonidov, Leonid Vesnin, Aleksandr Vesnin, and Nikolai Krasil’nikov.

Wolfe is making an indispensable work of retrieval of documents related to Soviet early architectural experimenters. Look in particular his pages on Leonidov, on Leonid Sabsovich’s Urbanism, and the Socialist City (1929-1931), on the Okhitovic’s Disurbanism (which we also wrote of, here at Socks), Aleksandr Vesnin.

Also of interest: an excerpt about Leonidov’s project of the “Palace of Culture” from the pages of Sovremennaia arkhitektura, 1930 (no. 5, pgs. 2-3) we have also borrowed from Wolfe’s blog.

“In publishing projects for the Palace of Culture to be built on the Simonov Monastery site as discussion material, the editors of SA observe that not one of them provided a generally and entirely satisfactory solution to the problem. The arguments which have developed around these projects in the press, higher education establishments, and in public debates have mainly emphasized the design submitted by I. Leonidov, and as a result have come to assume the character of an undisguised persecution and baiting of the latter.

The editors of SA are perfectly well aware of the shortcomings of certain of I. Leonidov’s projects: ignoring the economic situation today at the same time as indulging in certain elements of aestheticism. All these features are undoubtedly a minus in Leonidov’s work.

But the critics of Leonidov’s work totally fail to see what from our standpoint is a great plus in it, which for all these shortcomings makes it in certain respects better and more valuable than the work of his competitors.

…The editors of SA, whilst recognizing that some of the accusations made against him are correct (abstractness, schematicism, etc.) consider that despite this the works of Leonidov are highly valuable as material of an investigative and experimental character, and they most forcefully protest against the groundless persecution of him.

Signed,
the Editors of Modern Architecture”

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