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Help me assemble puzzles at the Woodcut Maps booth at Maker Faire tomorrow!

#wood #woodcut maps #maker faire #crafts #map #maps #san francisco #san mateo #art #landscape #technology

Lu Xinjian: City DNA

First of two posts looking at the work of artist Lu Xinjan from Shanghai.

Lu creates works based on abstract arrangements of symbols aesthetically, which are actually based on information and reality. In the City DNA series, maps of famous cities from around the world are codified with Lu’s unique design grammar.

You can check out all of Lu’s current collection of the ongoing series here

Next post on the artist’s work: Invisible Poems

New York City Garbage

Justin Gignac

#art #garbage #trash #nyc #justin gignac #urbanism

vobios

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“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.”

#art #urbanism #armelle caron #organization #geometry

Dead Pixel in Google Earth

82 cm x 82 cm burned square

Helmut Smits

2008 - 2010

#art #landscape #Earth Art #land art #google #google earth #helmut smits

Soundcube

Bernhard Leitner

1969

#art #Architecture #installation #sound #cube #media art #1969

archiveofaffinities

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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.

#architecture #hans hollein #infrastructure #landscape #unrealized #visionary #art