UE U: Cartography Blog

Deactivated blog of the EPFL Teaching Unit U: Cartography taught by Bárbara Maçães Costa.

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Course blog of the EPFL Teaching Unit U: Cartography taught by Bárbara Maçães Costa, Ph.D.

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Update August 2023: this blog has moved to https://ueucartography.com

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Travel sketches by young Le Corbusier. From Jacob Brillhart's Voyage Le Corbusier: Drawing on the Road, 2016.

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Adrienne Rich, "A Mark of Resistance," 1957.

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Allan Sekula, from Attempt to Correlate, 1975–2011.

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Nicolaes Visscher, Map of Amsterdam with a Plan for a City Extension that was never Realised, 1660

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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970. 16 mm film, duration: 35 minutes.

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Ad Reinhardt, Portend of the Artist as a Yhung Mandala, 1955

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New personal website: https://barbaramacaescosta.info

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Robert Smithson, The Collected Writings, 1996, pp. 370–371.

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Charles Booth’s Poverty Map, Sheet 1 (Full interactive map at: Life and Labour of the People in London), 1898-9.

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Erri De Luca, Napòlide, 1950.

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Alexandre Hogue (click for more)

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Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams, 2001.

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Vittorio Gregotti, Quartiere Zen, Palermo, 1969.

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Aldo Rossi, Roma interrotta: axonometric, 1977.

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Illustrations of electrical sparks from Memorie - Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali ser.3:v.1:disp.1 (1877).

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Hiroshi Hara, 500x500x500m Cube, 1992. (click for more)