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penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

Fallingwater

Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Library

A library in the center of Moscow, study project.

Franz Kline

Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...

Lattice

Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Shared Space

To develop better urban strategies and futures for communities in desert climates, Mario Gagliardi w...

Memphis Posters

4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.

Food Architecture

Food dal cucchiaio al mondo: Works of artists and architects who deal with the global political, soc...

Sky Walk

The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

Microscopes of utopia

This are some of landscapes spaces of nowhere with spaces inside

Brazil Modernism

20th century architecture in Brazil, including work by Lina Bo Bardi, Lúcio Costa, Affonso Reidy, O...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture

A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Tom Ngo

"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...

Future Architecture

Future Architecture Platform is a European program which promotes talents in architecture. Future A...

Superstudio, Superproduction, Superconsumption

Superarchitecture is the architecture of superproduction, of superconsumption, of superinduction to ...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks

We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...

Spatial Clusters

"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...

ЯРОСЛАВ МИСОНЖНИКОВ: ODNOSVECHNIK

ODNOSVECHNIK is a candle holder in marble and wood. Designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, born 1988 in ...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

The Glass House

"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...

20th Century Italian Tables

A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.

Julius Shulman: Visual Drama

"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...

Robert Slezak

A trained locksmith from Bystrice pod Hostýnem, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Robert Sl...

Bird´s Nest

I am often struck by the nests that crows build using clothes hangers. Hangers are not only durable ...

Mimicry and Makeshift

Two future visions for urbanism and ownership: Mimicry city - where everything wants to be owned. As...

Colliding Worlds

Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Jorge Zalszupin and L'Atelier

Jorge Zalszupin (b. 1922), a native of Warsaw, Poland, studied architecture at Bucharest's Ecole des...

Amor Vacui

Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Archispecture

Architectural studies. Mario Gagliardi 2007-2010.

Small Buildings

Photographer Eric Tabuchi, born 1959, lives and works in Paris.

Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler

“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...

Harrison and Abramovitz

Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, who worked independently in New York in a partnershi...

Man. Kiki. Lee.

The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray) "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...

Manufactured Landscapes

We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...

Woman. Black. White.

Black and white photos of charismatic women.

Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass

The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...

Pierre Besson

Pierre Besson: Fictions begins… Pierre Besson navigates between visual arts and architecture, and...

Weaving spaces

The project explores form in order to resolve a simple function: a roof

Mass, space, plane and line

"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...

George Sowden

George Sowden studied architecture at Gloucester College of Art. From 1970 he lived in Milan, workin...

Pascal Häusermann

Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Merzbau

"The Merzbau is the construction of an interior from sculptural forms and colours. In the glazed gro...

André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles

From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...

Roland Rainer

Roland Rainer, born 1910 in Klagenfurt, studied at the Technical University in Vienna. His dissertat...

Harry Seidler

Harry Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as son of Rose and Max Seidler. Rose was able to pursue her...

ice

Ice hotels in Norway, Finland and Sweden

Ponte City

Ponte City is a skyscraper in the Hillbrow neighborhood of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built ...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Tesseract

Jun Ong is a Kuala Lumpur-based architect and artist. Jun has previously worked at practices in Shan...

Oskar Schlemmer: Das Triadische Ballett

After Walter Gropius founded the stage workshop in 1921, Oskar Schlemmer, the head of the stage work...

Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry

Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...

Antonio Sant´Elia: The house of concrete, glass and steel

"No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements us...

Abitazione IPES ad Appiano

Abitazione IPES ad Appiano

Allestimento del museo Palais Mamming

Allestimento del museo Palais Mamming,Merano

Infopoint BBT

Recupero del Forte di Fortezza

Gio Ponti, Architetto

Gio Ponti (born Nov. 18, 1891, Milan, Italy—died Sept. 15, 1979, Milan) graduated in 1921 from the...