Mary Yacoob | Thin Cities etchings

“These thin city etchings are inspired by the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino in which the explorer Marco Polo is asked by the Emperor Kublai Khan to describe the cities in his Kingdom. Each city has its own idiosyncratic logic. In the end, it is possible Marco Polo is just describing one city, Venice, but just looking at the same city from a different perspective.Each city etching has it’s own internal logic: eg a city of machine pathways; a city of plan rotation via the spikes on mountain tips; a rotating tool city; a city of tool heads in the sky….”

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Fun House - Eric Owen Moss

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Tom Ingo - Architectural Absurdity

Absurdity can be a rhetorical device aimed at questioning architectural conventions. Architectural absurdity playfully transgresses within the rules of building formation to create valid alternative assemblages while scrutinizing regulation. The resultant architecture redefines the rituals of program and questions the notion of typology. Unbound by strict conformity to logic, the liberated architect breathes new life into architecture.

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110813 - Shin Takamatsu’s Moon Tower

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Design fiction 1/2/3 by Casey Cripe : socks-studio)

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Melun-Sénart project by OMA

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West Bank Industrial Workers Club by Brian D. Andrews

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Hackney Wick Co-operative

Hackney Honey Gardens exist as a series of towers that run parallel to hackney wick rail station and adjacent to the Hertford union Canal. The towers function as Honey making, collecting and processing systems as well as dwelling spaces for resident beekeepers and co-operative members. The collected Honey is jarred and sold or traded within the central Hub of the operating co-operative, at the Lord Napier Public House towards the entrance of Hackney wick Station

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Margaret Bursa - New Local Zlin

The Czech town of Zlín is the site of a social, industrial and architectural experiment begun by Tomas Bata in 1894. The shoe-making factories that were once the town’s driving force no longer operate and so the social and commercial structure of the town and its suburbs are in decline. Responding to the New Local Manifestoa layer of facilities is laid over and interwoven into the residential neighbourhoods where seven housing typologies are afforded dual functions of work and domestic life.

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Kyle Benjamin Jorgensen

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Drawings by Robert Gilson

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Tom Ngo drawings over at BDIF

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Hans Hollein, Aircraft Carrier Projects, 1964

All of Hollein’s drawings in this book are from his Transformations series, created between 1963 and 1968. In each, an agricultural or urban landscape, often apparently barren, becomes the site for a monumental object. The drawings are visual parodies of Le Corbusier’s concept of architecture as an object in the landscape, an idea exemplified in his seminal book Vers une Architecture (Toward a new architecture), with its images of ocean liners, automobiles, and airplanes-examples of technological ingenuity that stand as singular objects, more worthy of an absolute and dominant place in the world than any other current example of monumental architecture.

“This house works like a chessboard. The pieces move according to the rules of each object… They must always return to the starting point to restart the game… Hence the floor, which set the existing items back in front of the windows… or the paint on the walls, which reveals the discovered fragments, are the rules of the game… Amongst them, moving in an orderly fashion, are tables, books, chairs…” Enric Miralles

From | Operative Drawing I: Miralles | Diffusive Architectures

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