STUFF I LIKE
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Belenyi Szabolcs
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Sergueï Yurkévitch - Shadow, Leningrad, 1981
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Paula Hayes.
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Joanna Chrobak is an amazing contemporary Polish artist. Heavily influenced by medieval and Renaissance art, her paintings are beautiful,...
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Chewing Gum In Venice by Simone Decker
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“Last year, photographer Chase Jarvis called Singapore-based Jared Lim an emerging talent for his unique architectural photos which Jarvis...
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Settlements and City Strategies by Lekan Jeyifous
Lekan Jeyifo (tumblr / twitter)
This series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models.
A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered
(via z-x-y)
ok, graffiti.
i mean, technically it’s attached to a building, so it’s tangentially architecture? right?
well, maybe i just have too broad an idea of what constitutes architecture, as i’ve included pictures of clouds and lizards on this site. but i’m a college drop-out, so what do you expect? an erudite and reasoned consideration of exceptional buildings? or pictures of lizards and graffiti? how about an erudite and reasoned consideration of lizards and graffiti? and buildings, too, on occasion.
i also have a really hard time spelling words with double consonants. like: ‘occasion’. is that right? it looks like it should have 2 ‘s’s’.
so: graffiti. you have to admit, this graffiti is pretty remarkable. and it defines and establishes the space, far more than the building upon which it’s been painted. the building itself is kind of egregiously unremarkable. it’s only the graffiti that distinguishes the building from the few million other generic buildings in l.a.
i especially like the scary blue baby doll playing bongos. and the scary clown.
NOW AND THEN BY DETROITURBEX
Detroiturbex (facebook) - Impressive series of photographs entitled “Now and Then”, in an abandoned school in the city of Detroit
MOST INTERESTING POSTINGS OF THE YEAR BY DEVIDSKETCHBOOK
You can view many interesting messages on page which were posted this year while this blog is exists. Many thanks to all my followers and thank you for your support. Also, thanks to all editors for tumbler support.
Wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
NYC FRACTAL
Germany, Hamburg-based photographer Carsten Witte (facebook / behance) - “shot on my last two trips to NYC with an eye for the relecting surfaces of New York´s architecture. Shot between central park and financial districh in December. Surfaces of NY architecture.”
THE BEAUTY IN EXPIRED LA BY VICKY MOON
CA, Los Angeles-based photographer Vicky Moon - “Expired L.A. is an on going series of my exploration of Los Angeles at night. Every building is unique and captivating, as well as the individual color shifts each building creates with every exposure. I am fascinated by the drama that is created by the night sky and seek the beautiful in the over looked; I find the mundane to be extravagant and I find the beauty in the expired; This is my Los Angeles.”
THE HAPPINESS MACHINE
(Rotring pen on Arches white paper)
UK. Cornwall-based artist Mark Lascelles Thornton
HUT “Hermitage” by Ethan Hayes-Chute
Artist Ethan Hayes-Chute lives and works in Freeport, Maine & Berlin, Germany. Through paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations and artist’s books, he explores the ideas of self-sufficiency, self-preservation and self-exclusion as models for living. Hayes-Chute’s hut is an accumulation of stuff, the ephemera of the every day. Its materials are found, stitched together, hand-assembled – chair, desk, table, shaving mirror, and coffee mug furnish the cabin’s primary function to house and sustain.
LAST HOUSE ON HOLLAND ISLAND
The winter storms early in 2010 took a severe toll on this proud remnant of another century and another way of life. The brick skirting around the foundation has been washed away and the entire foundation on the right (south) side is gone. ( Image via: baldeaglebluff )
Architects of Air - LUMINARIA | EXXOPOLIS
To commemorate the 20th luminarium, and to celebrate its long association with Nottingham, Architects of Air returned to its roots to involve local people. In partnership with Lakeside Arts Centre local community groups were enlisted in the ‘Windows Project’ workshops to make the intricate ‘stained glass’ windows of the EXXOPOLIS cupola based on a tiling design by Sir Roger Penrose.
The luminaria are designed by company founder, Alan Parkinson, who started experimenting with pneumatic sculptures in the I980s.
Each luminarium is an original design. The principal difference between the different luminaria is found in the rendering of the domes and in the layout of the tunnels.
The domes are the large chambers rising up to 10 metres high that provide the focal points. The tunnels connect the domes and determine the journey the visitor will take. The luminaria also feature ‘pods’ - alcoves where people can sit and relax out of the way of the other visitors.
Each luminarium is a dazzling maze of winding paths and soaring domes where Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and Gothic cathedrals meld into an inspiring monument to the beauty of light and colour.
more: MIRACOCO | MIRAZOZO | AMOCOCO | LEVITY II | LEVITY III
URSULINENS PROLAPSE
Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira’s powerful recycled wood installations “Ursulinens Prolapse”
(OK Center, Linz-Austria | plywood, PVC, foam and pigments | 3,75 x 9,07 x 15,27m | 2012 )
Dan Cameron - “Although many installation artists today produce work that reaches far outside the established bounds of both painting and sculpture, the work of young Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira seems to be almost without peer.
Despite such comparisons, no other artist working today seems in possession of quite the same ease and fluidity at transforming the boundaries of the one medium into the other, not least of all as this ease is manifested in the new untitled `brushstroke` piece he has produced for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
To a degree, this work crystallizes a long-term struggle within Oliveira`s art to transform three-dimensional museum space into a dynamically charged zone of free-flowing energy that the viewer experiences as bearing no edges, no beginning or end, and no measurable shape or contours.”
ISTIGKEIT
Photographer Mattia Mognetti - “Since 2010 I began to ride my congenital attraction for architectures: their huge volumes and gigantism, their shapes and textures… Fascinated by perspectives I was taking photographs without fully understanding what my attention was attracted by, what I tried to represent with a shot and his post-production. Photography as an opportunity to take a fragment of reality and make it a meaning, butalso, conversely, as an expedient to let a significance take possession of reality to bring out himself. The contrast between these two visions became the source of my own reflections. Slowly I realized that psychology was an integral part of my creative experience. That I wasn’t trying to represent architectures, but to use a photograph as way to strike and confuse my perceptive system. So I started producing the first works that were later structured in“Istigkeit”. ….
