The different forms, the use of color on facades, the transparency and the natural light through the interior suggest uniqueness in its function, this is a project designed for Autonomous Artisan’s Houses by Steven Holl in the early 1980s.
1. Autonomous Artisans’ House, project, New York (Staten Island), Perspective,1980
2. Autonomous Artisans’ House, project, New York (Staten Island), Perspective, 1980
This was Frank Lloyd Wright’s last dream: the “city of the future” on Ellis Island, designed in 1959, where a former immigration center was dismantled in the second half of the 1950s.
Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa: La chiesa di Corte de Cadore
Here is how two architects in the 50′s collaborate in the design of a church. Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa designed ‘La chiesa di Corte de Cadore’. The evolution of drawings from the general plan to the details are a good example to realize the importance of a collaborative design process, where a graphic dialogue evolves from a plot of ideas to the progressive definition of a structural system by studying its sections, details and views with accurate.
These gorgeous drawings came from the idea, however through measure they got the detail for its construction.
Carlo Scarpa, Studi per l’altare maggiore. 1956
Edoardo Gellner, Lampada del Santissimo. Prospetto, vista dal basso e assonometria. 1958
Graphic Dialogue
Edoardo Gellner and Carlo Scarpa
Between 50s and 60s Gellner & Scarpa made a fantastic collaborative design for La chiesa di Corte de Cadore. Check it out.
The Residência José da Silva Neto, designed by the Brazilian architect João da Gama Filgueiras Lima (Lelé), is an impressive concrete skeleton standing on only four massive supporting pillars from which the ceiling of the living space is suspended. In 2019, the architect Lutero Leme and his Studio Arquitécnika took the challenge to revitalize the aging villa and brought it up to date with the latest technologies.
João da Gama Filgueiras Lima (Lelé): Residência José da Silva Neto, Brasília, Brazil, 1973–1976
We have restored a Nomos Table, one of the most authentic high-tech furniture system designed by Norman Foster in 1986 produced by Tecno.
“..The frame of the Nomos table is conceived as a rigid, zoomorphic skeleton. Like the other elements in the Nomos system, the table can be adapted to satisfy wide range of needs, at home and in the office.
The Nomos table’s striking appearance and refined design have made it one of the most recognisable products of international design in the Tecno catalogue.
The Nomos table differs from the other components of the Nomos system for the size of its tubular frame (25 mm instead of 30 mm), for the angled shape of its base and for the fact that its top is supported not by the usual structure but by dedicated castings. The top rests on suckers in the glass version and is screwed to the aluminium supports in wood top versions.The Nomos table can be assembled in two heights, 72 cm and 65 cm, simply by including or excluding spacers between the top and the supports..”
