Archives for the Month of August, 2017

Selected Tweets #26 – Gridcollages, Chalcopyrite & The Music of Trains

Danny WillsCultivating the Map – Danny Wills

Selected tweets from @MrPrudence

Torvaianica – Josef Dabernig [1984] Translating the Torvaianica in Lazio via a² + b² = c² to create data notations.

Glossolalie 61 and other graphic Scores – Dieter Schnebel.

Fascialis 20% @wblut is re/deconstructing 3D anatomy.

Rento Van Drunen’s Gridcollages – abstract renditions of complex geometries & spatial modularities.

Modular geometric transforms of a plan system – Walter Netsch [Progressive Architecture 54 April 1973].

The Burning Ship Fractal discovered by way of Rossler Attractors and El Naschie’s ‘undisciplined numerological’ E-infinity theory.

“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination.

Philly Area Highways – 1972. Design constraints and stylisations of map making expressed as Mondrian-isms.

FascialisFascialis – Frederik Vanhoutte

Cultivating the Map – Danny Wills. ‘Proposing that the map is also a generative tool.’

Iron Flowers, Noir Gardens – Stallating icosahedral polyhedra in monochromatic real-time.

The immense proto-brutalist neo-Gothic architecture of Hans Poelzig.

Roberto Calbucci’s studies for comic abstraction based on Martin Heidegger’s ‘The Concept of Time.’

“The fetishization of indeterminacy in the guise of a sort of complexity porn.”

Plates from The Principles of Light and Color – Edwin D. Babbitt [1878].

Score for PR–IVIII (A graphic score of cartoon sound-landscapes ) and other graphic notaion by Bogus?aw Schaeffer.

Paramecium multimicronucleata from ‘Protozoology’ – Richard Kudo [1939].

Glossolalie 61 - Dieter SchnebelGlossolalie 61 – Dieter Schnebel

Aerial tuning inductor – Rugby Radio Station, 1943-1966. Unintentional pataphysical sculpture.

Fluorite with Quartz and Chalcopyrite and other Illustrations – Arthur Smith. [1952]

The Music of Trains? Dovetailing of Train Movements, found in Graphic Presentation – W Brinton [1939].

Plates from ‘Desmids [green algae] of the United States’– Francis Wolle [1892].

Hand-painted manuscript globe of Mars – Emmy Ingeborg Brun, Denmark, [1909].

Amanita – Vic Atkinson (1974) Mushrooms + insects + cosmic library music.

Score for Kosmic Music – Wadada Leo Smith [2008].

Not a medieval alchemical diagram but a schema on optics for lighthouse engineering.

Hiromi Fujii – Programming the Cube

Hiromi FujiiTodoroki House – Hiromi Fujii [1975]

In the 1970’s Japanese architect Hiromi Fujii neutralised his architectural projects from time, tradition and convention by using the most archetypal of all conceptual objects, the cube. Programming this minimal element through further syntactic transformations into more complex nested structures allowed his drawings retain a stark and empty elegance. Like Sol LeWitt’s combinatorial transformation drawings they have no history, or time, outside of the cold logic of their algorithmic prescription; their context is self-contained; they reference only variations of themselves.

Hiromi FujiiTodoroki House – Hiromi Fujii [1975]

Hiromi FujiiTodoroki House – Hiromi Fujii [1975]

Hiromi FujiiTodoroki House – Hiromi Fujii [1975]

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum – in which all known genera of the palm family are illustrated and their biogeographies described – is considered a landmark botanical survey. Taking over 27 years to complete, the three-volume work contains 240 chromolithographic illustrations which survey 2,250 km of the Brazilian Amazon and its tributaries (oh, that number thing). Many illustrations are typical of their time but what stands out among familiar stylisations are Martius’s own curious illustrations of the cross-sectional architectures of trunks and brunches. Other graphical systems clearly define the palms signature mathematical morphologies, symmetries and phyllotaxial geometries. The illustrations have been collected in the Book of Palms by H. Walter Lack published by Taschen.

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum

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