Site plan to bypass traditional construction methods by instead clustering modular ship hulls in difficult aquatic contexts in Jacques Beufé's 'Modular Leisure Homes' (1970) #design #architecture #city #building #landscape #nature#drawing #graphic
Collection of casino typologies and reading of the 'new monumentality' of the Las Vegas strip extracted from Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's 'Learning from Las Vegas' (1972). In memory of Robert Venturi (1925-2018) #design #architecture #venturi #lasvegas
The continuously ramped ziggurat tower in the Assyrian Dur-Sharrukin complex (707 BC) is the only evidence of a real-life spiraling tower that is often used to symbolize utopia #design #architecture #buildings #city #urban #drawing #graphic #form #shape #geometry #world
The continuously ramped ziggurat tower in the Assyrian Dur-Sharrukin complex (707 BC) is the only evidence of a real-life spiraling tower that is often used to symbolize utopia #design #architecture #buildings #city #urban #drawing #graphic #form #shape #geometry #world
GRID: Proposed town plans of Franklinville and Lystra, Kentucky made by a group of English land speculators in 1794—preemptively testing the Systems of Subdivisions of Public Lands in 1796 #design #architecture #city #planning #america #kentucky #grid #drawing #graphic
GRID: Proposed town plans of Franklinville and Lystra, Kentucky made by a group of English land speculators in 1794—preemptively testing the Systems of Subdivisions of Public Lands in 1796 #design #architecture #city #planning #america #kentucky #grid #drawing #graphic
Series of concept sketches for the 'Relocation of Los Angeles' from low-density horizontal parcels to clusters of lifted tensile-structure vertical villages of 1000 homes each proposed by Georgesco Harlan (1965) #design #architecture #city #losangeles #building #drawing #graphic
Series of concept sketches for the 'Relocation of Los Angeles' from low-density horizontal parcels to clusters of lifted tensile-structure vertical villages of 1000 homes each proposed by Georgesco Harlan (1965) #design #architecture #city #losangeles #building #drawing #graphic
Series of concept sketches for the 'Relocation of Los Angeles' from low-density horizontal parcels to clusters of lifted tensile-structure vertical villages of 1000 homes each proposed by Georgesco Harlan (1965) #design #architecture #city #losangeles #building #drawing #graphic
Engraving of a pre-Columbian water-based Mexico City on the lake engraved by Franz Hogenberg for Georg Braun's extensive 'Civitates orbis terrarum' (1572-1617) collection depicting many cities around the world #design #architecture #city #drawing #mexicocity #planning #nature
GRID: Axonometric drawing interpreting the typewriter generated field from Archizoom's No Stop City (1969) #design #architecture #art #city #planning #archizoom #building #drawing #graphic #landscape
Imagined urban plan of the walled city of Kanton (Guangzhou today), China in 1665 by Johan Nieuhof piecing together second-hand accounts of its organization and logic #design #architecture #city #drawing #urbanplanning #nature #life #world
Architectural invention/reconstruction of a Theban Pyramid (1721) by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach as part of his attempt to document the history of architecture #design #architecture #drawing #graphic #building #egypt #pyramid #form #travel #world
Two speculated forms of accelerated urbanism in O.M. Ungers' studio prompt 'Berlin 1995: A Planning-Mode for a Five-Million City in Transition from the 1970s' (1969) where students designed complexity into how these logics meet the city #design #architecture #city #berlin
Two speculated forms of accelerated urbanism in O.M. Ungers' studio prompt 'Berlin 1995: A Planning-Mode for a Five-Million City in Transition from the 1970s' (1969) where students designed complexity into how these logics meet the city #design #architecture #city #berlin
In an attempt to understand what new forms of practice exist in architecture today, Alejandro Zaera Polo & Guillermo Fernandez-Abascal reworked Jenck's canonical 'Theory of Evolution'(1973) diagram with their own 'Political Compass' (2016) #architecture #design #drawing #graphic