This map uses an equidistant azimuthal projection. This type of projection consists in defining a central point and represent each point of the map at a correct proportional distance from the defined center. This map is centered in Buenos Aires.
Heliografías, the Architecture of Madness
León Ferrari was an Argentine conceptual artist whose practice was often ironic, absurd, and above all anti-institutional. During his period of exile in Brazil he began his Heliografías series. These drawings are composed of urban plans, highways, building typologies, furniture, and many identical inhabitants, in order to form an aggregation without much coherence.
Time machines, Stanley Greenberg
Stanley Greenberg explored the scientific infrastructures of the world for 5 years. In the time machines series he shows the diversity of these physics facilities. All these scientific infrastructures are works facilities but they can also be seen as an architecture of science without equal.
Gastronomic map of France, 1929
Alain Bourguignon drew this gastronomic map of France in 1929. This map includes the culinary specialties, productions, agricultural cultures, wines and champagnes, beers, fish, and the gastronomic heritage of all regions from mainland France
La Description de l’Égypte: Antiquités, Volume II – Thebes
La Description de l’Egypte (The Description of Egypt), is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to Egypt. It is a work from Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, recounting the discoveries made during this scientific voyage. The second book of plates is La Description de l’Égypte: Antiquités, Volume II. It is the second of 5 volumes describing ancient Egypt.
Happy Together, the Argentine exile
Happy Together is the story of two undisciplined lovers in exile. Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai left Hong Kong to go and see the Iguazu Falls in Argentina. They arrive in Buenos Aires, where there is a time lag and cultural gap. Above all, they experience a relational and emotional shift. The couple find themselves stuck in a passionate and unstable cycle.
The Art of Flying, Murmurations
The murmurations phenomenon concerns the gregarious behavior of birds. The individuals in a group act together, with no direction planned, forming waves of birds in the sky. This flock characterize social species, their behavior is similar to fish schools or swarms of insects.
Isle of the Dead, five versions
Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss painter who lived half of his life in Italy. He’s the principal representative of German symbolism, due to his most famous painting Die Tetoeninsel (Isle of the Dead). The particularity being that he painted five versions of it within seven years.
Obsolete industrial structures, Repurposed Utility
Tall industrial chimneys, water tanks and other industrial structures are part of the landscape. However, the majority have become obsolete structures. Greg Maka explores the built environment and the change in function of these structures. In this series, he testifies to the non-formal conversion of these vertical axes, converted into relay antennas.
Map of Vesuvius lava streams
John Auldjo lived in Naples at a sensitive period concerning volcanic eruptions. Indeed, the Mount Vesuvius experienced no less than 5 eruptions between 1820 and 1840. He personnally witnessed the effusive eruption of 1831 and went to scale it. The result is a new written work filled with handmade lithographs.