
Help me assemble puzzles at the Woodcut Maps booth at Maker Faire tomorrow!
“French artist Armelle Caron takes maps of cities and reorganizes the individual blocks into ordered rows. The process transforms a chaotic city into a unrecognizable, but systematic assemblage of shapes. I’ll be honest, the sizes of the images below don’t do the designs justice.”
(via l-ll-lll)
Hans Hollein, Aircraft Carrier Projects, 1964
All of Hollein’s drawings in this book are from his Transformations series, created between 1963 and 1968. In each, an agricultural or urban landscape, often apparently barren, becomes the site for a monumental object. The drawings are visual parodies of Le Corbusier’s concept of architecture as an object in the landscape, an idea exemplified in his seminal book Vers une Architecture (Toward a new architecture), with its images of ocean liners, automobiles, and airplanes-examples of technological ingenuity that stand as singular objects, more worthy of an absolute and dominant place in the world than any other current example of monumental architecture.
mandala-like carpets made from google earth screenshots by David Hanauer
Mondrian Remixed (by Graphic Nothing)
students assembling Buckminster Fuller’s venetian blind strip dome
Black Mountain College
1948
from The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometry Series
Jim Sanborn










