mobile color machine

(images for young gossamer)(luxorgan - mobile color machine)image 1 - watercolor from the series mathematical abstractions - 1941image 2 - watercolor for a mobile-color composition - 1934image 3 - drawing showing wiring connections between keyboard and luxorgan lamps - ca. 1917image 4 - lamping plan for a later version of the luxorgan - 1920"from 1917 on, claude bradgon began to develop a

a wavering gleam of pointed light

greene & greenefrom a new and native beauty: the art and craft of greene & greeneviewed at the huntington library, art collections, and botanical gardens

a glimmer of vivid light

greene & greene - watercolourfrom a new and native beauty: the art and craft of greene & greeneviewed at the huntington library, art collections, and botanical gardens

with the gentle embrace

dom hans van der laan (dutch monastic architect)schemi per tuniche represe da abiti orientali che testimoniano l'attitudinefrom dom hans van der laan: le opere, gli scritti - electa - 2000for diane

glimpse of the city through glass walls

gustave doré, view after thousands of years(london destroyed)woodcut, 1872 champs-elysées, jardin d'hiversection through the nave, showing fountainca. 1850thierry, lithograph, champs-elysées, jardin d'hiver, ca. 1850victoria regia house, berlin-schönebergengraving (built 1882, destroyed 1907)joseph paxton, engraving of interior regia houseat the great conservatory, 1849(paxton's daughter is shown

often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth

riccardo morandiconstruction photo of bridge over lake maracaibo, venezuelafrom - the concrete architecture of riccardo morandi by giorgio boaga & benito boni - praeger - 1966

the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line

in 1795, when shirley, massachusettes, was a community of 200 shakers living on three thousand acres, an outside observer recorded, "the walls are excellent & high & upon an horizontal line, & as straight as they can be laid."inspired by visionary experiences, the gift drawings bridge the heavenly and the earthly spheres....imaging heaven as a perfectly balanced array of circles, squares, and

no. 406296

il disegno del primo brevetto del ferrocementoimage from pier luigi nervi:dai primi brevetti al palazzo delle esposizioni di torino 1917-1948quart verlag - 2008

25 great circles

images from buckminster fuller: starting with the universe -yale university press/whitney museum of american art - 2008(25 great circles & 2 geodesic drawings from the 1960s)

an interval of time

from christian norberg-schultz - intentions in architecture - mit press - 1965

our house, like a solo performance, proudly resounds amongst the confusion and clamor of the disproportionate piers of the capital

melnikov and his wife next to their future house in moscow, late 1920'sfrom architecture of konstantin melnikov: 1920's-1930's, toto, 2002

le magasin de ventre citroën à paris

le magasin de ventre citroën à paris, 1927-29 avec léon émile bazin(détruit 1954)albert laprade: architecte, jardinier, urbaniste,dessinateur, serviteur du patrimoine,norma editions, 2007d'autres livres d'intérêt:-le jardin et la maison arabes au maroc, editions albert levy, 1926-l'exposition de paris, librairie des arts décoratif, 1937-architectures de france à travers les croquis,

joseph-nicéphore niepce (physicien et photographe français 1765-1833)

paysage architectural à saint-loup-de-varennes, vers 1826the first photograph(from a camera obscura, eight hour exposure)the university of texas at austinfound looking through the amazing centre georges pompidou catalogue images et imaginaires d'architecture: dessin, peinture, photographie, arts graphiques, théâtre, cinéma en europe aux XIXe et XXe siècles, 1984

tour de l'apocalypse

robert garcet's tower of the apocalypseimage from: fantastic architecture: personal and eccentric visions, 1980 harry abramstext from the book:born in 1912, robert garcet is a stonecutter by profession. around 1930, he settled in fort ebenemael, belgium, building a house there, then a workshop. in the early fifties, he began the tour de l'apocalypse. garcet sees the church as the cause of today's

prehistoric architecture in the eastern united states

page 75, perkins: scott, mississippiprehistoric architecture in the eastern united states by william n. morgan, 1980 mit pressgreat book on pre-land art structures in the united states, specifically native american architecture from about 2200 bc to ad 1500.

prouvé in queens

jean prouvé house beside the queensboro bridge, awaiting its sale at christie's.more images here

monochromes and architecture

monochromes and interior design by david ireland.folded paper landscape, 1973landscape, 1974dirt work with flakes, 1974a portion of: from the year of doing the same work each day,1975waxed cement with hole, 1975capp street, 1986headlands center for the arts, 1986-1987

vladimir g. suchov

images of the work of russian engineer vladimir g. suchov (1853-1939), found in this fine german book published by dva.works:kaufhaus gum in moskau 1889-1893banhofs in moskau 1912-17wasserturm in polibino 1896sabolovko-radioturm in moskau 1919funfstockiger-nigres 1927

manhattan

highlights from recent trip to manhattan.moma:otto piene.untitled (smoke drawing). 1959arnulf rainer.bird scratches. 1968william anastasi.60 minutes. (1987)william anastasi.untitled (11.13.01 wynn kramarsky 14:50). 2001jean dubuffet.soul of the underground. vence, december. 1959andy warhol. empire. 1964 day andy warhol.empire. 1964 eveningrobert rauschenberg.untitled (asheville citizen). c.

robert maillart......béton armé

(my last post before i go to nyc for a week to see all the vermeers, check out the new moma, and box up 1400 books)nice images from a book i was looking at on the swiss bridge builder/architect robert maillart.the image is "landquartbrucke in klosters, 1930" from the eth catalogue robert maillart: beton virtuose.