arquitectura, dibujos , modelos ,arte y diseño

[7pleiades7]

La Folie de Titania (The Madness of Titania) (1897) by Paul Gervais (French, 1859 – 1944), oil on canvas, 350 cm (11.4 ft) x 520 cm (17 ft), Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

[enchantedbook]

'The Year's at the Spring, an anthology of recent poetry' illustrated by Harry Clarke, 1920.

[xenonsreturn]

Perretta Frightens the Demon

By Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen

[magicofoldies]

Carole Lombard

[7pleiades7]

Syreny (Sirens) (1845) by Teofil Kwiatkowski (Polish, 1809 – 1891), oil on canvas, 60 cm x 82 cm, Princes Czartoryski Museum, Krakow

[enchantedbook]

"Cendrillon" by Kay Nielsen, 1913

[enchantedbook]

"The Silence of the Forest" (Das Schweigen des Waldes), by Arnold Böcklin, 1896.

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

"Maison de L'Homme" Called "Pavillon Le Corbusier," Zürich-Seefeld, Switzerland,

Designed in the 1960s by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, this beautiful "floating" staircase was conceived as a sculptural composition of concrete, steel and wood.

[hexjulia]

someone should use that illustration by athanasius kircher of what it would look like if the tower of babel reached the moon as the base for hard scifi. somehow. What i'm saying is just take the existence of this ridiculous thing as a given and figure out a way to make it physically possible and/or why people would do that. the story will arrive on its own.

narwhal earth... pinocchio earth.

[malou-editions]

Automaton campanarium fabricari (Design for automated chime bells) from Athanasius Kircher (German, 1602–1680), Musurgia universalis plate 19, vol. 2, facing p. 336, Rome: Francisci Corbelletti, 1650, Rare Music CollectionUniversity of Melbourne Library

[chronivore]

Page from a book by Athanasius Kircher

[drathanasius]

[oo111111]

Illustration from Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni

[mjaomjaomjao]

Athanasius Kircher

[lindahall]

Athanasius Kircher – Scientist of the Day

Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit natural philosopher working in Rome, was born May 2, 1601 (or 1602), in Fulda, Germany. Learn more...

[dreamconsumer]

Representation of a griffon, fantastic creature half eagle half lion. Engraving from a work by Athanasius Kircher.

[diana-andraste]

A bat known as a flying cat, from China Illustrata, Athanasius Kircher, 1667