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Italomodern 2: Architecture in Northern Italy 1946-1976

Italomodern 2: Architecture in Northern Italy 1946-1976
Martin Feiersinger, Werner Feiersinger

Vienna-based architect Martin Feiersinger and his brother, artist and photographer Werner Feiersinger have extensively travelled across Northern Italy in order to document the region’s modern architecture after World War II. Italomodern 1 and 2 is the result of their travels, the most authoritative survey of […]


A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form
Kenneth Frampton

“A Genealogy of Modern Architecture” is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today’s leading architectural theorists. Conceived as a genealogy of twentieth century architecture from 1924 to 2000, it compiles some sixteen comparative analyses of canonical modern buildings ranging from […]


Brodsky & Utkin

Brodsky & Utkin
Alexander Brodsky, Ilya Utkin

From 1978 to 1993, the renowned Soviet “paper architects” Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin created an incredible collection of elaborate etchings depicting outlandish, often impossible, buildings and cityscapes. Funny, cerebral, and deeply human, their obsessively detailed work layers elements borrowed from Egyptian tombs, Ledoux’s visionary […]


Italomodern 1: Architecture in Northern Italy 1946-1976

Italomodern 1: Architecture in Northern Italy 1946-1976
Martin Feiersinger, Werner Feiersinger

Vienna-based architect Martin Feiersinger and his brother, artist and photographer Werner Feiersinger have extensively travelled across Northern Italy in order to document the region’s modern architecture after World War II. Italomodern 1 and 2 is the result of their travels, the most authoritative survey of […]


Spatial Structure

Spatial Structure
Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, the eponymous firm of Chilean partners, Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen, have put together a delightful and beautiful longform essay that parallels the development of their spatial practice. In over a decade of constant academic and professional practice, as a parallel […]