FIG Projects

FIG projects explores the boundaries between architecture, urban exploration and visual arts and promotes interdisciplinary initiatives.

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Carlos Quintans Eiras has launched a new and intriguing project, called "Atlas", a growing visual database that gathers numerous and heterogeneous materials, often redirecting towards online archives.
the title could... https://t.co/dUEmbTUktU

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Finally a book on Victor Lundy. https://t.co/1lXB29Jbda

Pictures of the Galloway’s Furniture Showroom in Sarasota (1959) - as it is part of our series of trees across buildings.

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A few years ago, we posted about the amazing online archive of Amancio Williams, one of the most engaging modernist architects of Latin America. We often return there as a source of inspirations and ideas. Such as... https://t.co/XkiYVGUMJi

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Tech Plans / Endemic Architecture.
Reminds us of León Ferrari as well as numerous paedagogical exercises, by Pezo von Ellrichhausen, for instance.

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The first built projects by Jean Nouvel. Maison Delbigot, 1973.

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Expressing the intense dialogue with Claude Parent.

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One of the craziest architect and therefore show of this summer are in Sevilla: the first monographic exhibition about the work of José Miguel de Prada Poole, king of pneumatic architecture, titled "Prada Poole: La... https://t.co/nw6rGUWXyR

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Transcidisplinary influences. A show about and arounf Lee Scratch Perry, together with King Tubby, the master of dub.

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Living the curve. Modern an contemporary Japanese single family houses have always been a place of extreme experimentation, at the crossroads between cunning design and a certain laissez-faire of planning... https://t.co/fkDdZN390N

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If we were in Switzerland (or Europe for that matter), we would rush to see "U-Joints" in Lausanne, the second installment of what was the highlight of the 2018 Fuorisalone exhibitions in Milano. The show, open until... https://t.co/L7lOK7xB8z

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Muharraq
Bahrain
Pearling Path
Anne Holtrop

A few days ago we posted about the recently opened Visitor and Experience Center by Valerio Olgiati (https://t.co/k2PKslHCKv), part of a far wider renovation process for... https://t.co/s4dnGqWWRS

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1st of May. Happy Workers' Day!

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lenin workers’ club at "Exposition des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes", Paris 1925.... https://t.co/teJxQeIAVd

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Ken Isaacs.
Today was the day when the Chicago based Graham Foundation revealed the 2019 recipients of its generous grants program, https://t.co/Y0qwKNW7Xw.

Among the many intriguing... https://t.co/cbOmuo7ZwY

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21 Millones de ciudades The 7h of May 2019, FIG Projects will run an intensive workshop in Ciudad de México, within the "What Design Can Do" initiative. https://t.co/7YYzOpXPh9 Here a short description https://t.co/Nz7vBTnSxJ … Please join us!

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Some more Rudolphiana, suggested by architecture historian David Rikind:

Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, 1963-65

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More Rudolphiana.
Paul Rudolph, UMass.
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Some of the most acute and stimulating writings and intellectual speculations around design, data-collection, archiving, interfaces, libraries, new-media and novel digital technologies are produced by Shannon Mattern... https://t.co/oMJMwb8yYd

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The neo-broletto and the shadow machine.

Yesterday's post about the Valerio Olgiati canopy in Bahrain made us remember of a late medieval civic structure in Italian cities, the Broletto, a place for citizens to... https://t.co/KiAiGtv3xZ

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In Bahrein, a series of architectural interventions, under the astute guidance of Nourah Al Sayeh (https://t.co/3bzuDnS83K) and commissioned to designers such as Anne Holtrop... https://t.co/jQAvb94exf

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The Moholy-Nagy Foundation has a quite astounding visual databases of works by László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). The Foundation was created in 2003 by his grandson, Daniel Hug.
Here just a small selection of graphic... https://t.co/4g027GmGs2