Robert Morris is an American sculptor considered one of the founders of minimalism and also an early practitioner of land art. The Flevoland Observatorium that he bult in Netherlands stages a megalithic representation of the passage of time.
La Description de l’Égypte: Antiquités, Volume I
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 first book of plates is La Description de l’Égypte: Antiquités, Volume I. It is the first of 5 volumes describing ancient Egypt.
Une femme mariée
Une femme mariée is Godard’s eighth film. The main subject of the film is a woman in her twenties, Charlotte, of course without a conscience of its own, and presented as empty of substance, as is often the case with Godard. She leads her life between her husband Pierre and her lover Robert but doesn’t know which one to choose.
Metaphysical territories, Jean-Pierre Ugarte
Jean-Paul Ugarte is a French painter born in 1950. Born in Bordeaux, on the French coast, he was inspired at a very young age by the military architecture of the Atlantic Wall. He is a landscape painter, he represents air, nature, water and concrete. Jean-Paul Ugarte paints these metaphysical territories without humans, leaving room for interpretation.
Modern japanese aesthetics, the moga era
Following the Kanto earthquake, the reconstruction of japanese cities was accompanied by a new modern model of independant woman, the moga. The Japanese women of the city, found in Western fashion the affirmation of their independence. The newly rebuilt Tokyo will know many avant-garde cultural movements, affirming its modernity. The exposure to a new aesthetics, to a diversification of arts, to another music (jazz) encouraged the emancipation of the woman in the traditional Japanese society.
Another Rome: EUR District
EUR is a residential and business area of Rome. The initial project was developped for the 1942 World Fair. It was supposed to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of PNF’s March on Rome, but the exhibition never took place due to World War II. The architecture is the execution of Italian fascist ideology, widely inspired by Roman Imperial Town Planning mixing it with Italian rationalism.
Brick by brick, 36 dwellings in Ciudad Pegaso
The architectural proposal of Luis Martínez Santa-María was thought to follow the identity of the neighborhood of Ciudad Pegaso. In order to do so, he used brick as the main and almost exclusive material. The project stages the exploitation of this single material, to get its full expression.
Mundus Subterraneus, Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher was a 17th century jesuit scholar. Polymath and extremely prolific he published 39 major and highly influential works. After an excursion in the Vesuvius, Athenesius Kircher wrote the first published treatise on geology: Mundus subterraneus.
Voyages of scientific exploration: La Description de l’Égypte
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.
Geographical Atlas of the Argentine Republic
This is the second edition of the maps that were published in 1887 in a geographical atlas of the argentine republic. It contains maps of every provincia of Argentina and a map of Buenos Aires.