The Eggs of Price: An Ovo-Urban Analogy | Strange Maps

As an architect, Cedric Price (1934-2003) was such a visionary that he inspired the Centre Pompidou in Paris and anticipated the London Eye rather than actually design those things himself. 

Price’s supposed brilliance is hard to gauge, as very few of his designs were actually built - the most famous exception being the aviary at London Zoo. But if genius is the ability to convey complex information in simple images, then Price had me at egg.

The city as an egg, to be exact. Price condenses millennia of urban evolution into three types of egg: boiled, fried and scrambled - in that chronological order.

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Rail Networks | James Corner. 

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theformofbeauty: Frank Lloyd Wright, 1946 | Source

A sheet of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal stationery; a much larger version of which is here. His studio letterhead has been featured on Letterheady previously.

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Mercedes Benz Left Right Brain advertising

London Poster | Bibliothèque Design | Tribute to Harry Becks definitive London underground map by reproducing it using the two colours specified in the brief – red, for the Central line and black, for the Northern line. The other tube lines were deleted by virtue of not having the colour option to print them.

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The layers serve as cloaks translucent layers and meanings. Each zoom incorporates a meaning. Marks, the key to be read as maps of cities simultaneously. In each scale shapes and sizes but the keys are different, the readings and meanings remain.
 

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Peter Cook | a tower for SWISS COTTAGE

Shitscape via Mammoth

“Shitscape” describes “the making of an entirely functioning landscape built from human excreta”. It proposes to accomplish this by recovering “the ‘soil’ from the settlements while extracting the beneficial flora from the forest and, in turn, utilize both as a generator for a new and evolving landscape”. The project aims to give “those living in peri-urban” Mumbai the capacity to relieve their own ”conditions of poverty” by providing a structure within which “they participate in the creation, processing and profits of this landscape”.

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“Cities” is a series of drawings by Atelier Olschinsky, depicting fantastical, fictional urbanisms that have more in common with sci-fi than with existing cities.

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Soundscrapers: Military Pastoral

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By tapping into our higher self, we access universal intelligence. Art is the visualization & form manifestation of that intelligence. — Synaptic Stimuli

“HEATH ROBINSON”

William Heath Robinson, (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W. Heath Robinson. He is best known for his drawings of eccentric machines and the term “Heath Robinson” has entered the language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption.

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The image of Architect

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Inventing Green | The First Windmill Test Apparatus in America

This here is Thomas O. Perry’s windmill testing apparatus from 1882. A steam engine hooked up to all that stuff on the top drove the windmill being tested around in a circle at a constant speed. Dozens of windmills got hooked up to this thing and their power output recorded. From the results, Perry optimized the design of the American windmill from the kind you see here to the steel Aermotor-type you probably think of when you think of the Prairie windmill.

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