HANS RICHTER
LIBBY HOLMAN’S SWIMMING POOL USED FOR A SCENE IN THE FILM ‘8x8’, 1957
A BERLIN BASED BLOG COLLECTING LOST + FOUND PIECES OF ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, AND URBANISM
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A DRAWING OF A BUILDING IN REAL SPACE / PRAGUE, 2013
I love how the facade just looks like a drawing on a piece of paper.
ISAMU NOGUCHI
‘LUNAR VOYAGE’, ILLUMINATED WALL SCULPTURE FOR THE STAIRWELL OF THE S.S. ARGENTINA, 1948
CROSS SECTION OF A BONE THAT SHOWS THE SUBSTANIA SPONGIOSA. THE DENSITY OF THIS VAULTLIKE STRUCTURE FOLLOWS THE FORCES THAT ACT UPON THE BONE
IRVING JOHN GOOD
SPACE-FILLING STRUCTURE COMPOSED OF TRIANGLES AND OCTAGONS THAT ULTIMATELY LEAD TO AN INFINITE SET OF SPHERES WITH THREE MUTUALLY PERPENDICULAR TUNNELS RUNNING THROUGH EACH OF THEM, 1957
Irvin John Good recreated this geometry after it occurred to him in a dream in which kittens crawled from one sphere to another.
MASAO KOMURA
‘UPHEAVAL COLLECTION’ / TRANSITIONAL STAGES OF A SHAPE COMPOSED OF A NETWORK OF LINES THAT MORPHES BETWEEN A CUBE AND A STAR SHAPE BY MEANS OF RANDOM IMPROVISATION, 1960s
SKIDMORE & OWINGS WITH JOHN MOSS
VENEZUELA BUILDING AT NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR WITH A CEILING FRESCO BY LUIS LOPEZ MENDEZ, 1939-40
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