X-rays
Between 1869–1875, English physicist William Crookes developed the cathode ray tube, also known as a Crookes Tube. His and others’ experiments with the application of high voltages to a partially […]
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Neo-Plasticism
Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg was perpetually at odds with the Bauhaus ideology of the early 1920s, initially inspired by German Expressionism and upheld by Johannes Itten. At the same time, […]
Space as Membrane
In Der Raum als Membran (Space as Membrane, 1926), Siegfried Ebeling described the outer membrane of a house as a breathable skin able to protect its inhabitants from harmful pollutants […]
Metropolis
After visiting New York for the first time in 1924, Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang envisioned one of his most celebrated films remarking that “I looked into the streets – the […]
Verum
In his short treatise, Sidereas nuncius (Starry Messenger, 1610), Galileo Galilei presented his lunar observations, recording what he saw by projecting the image of the moon through a telescope onto […]
Pangeometry
In K. und Pangeometrie (1925), El Lissitzky created this triptych to demonstrate three methods of visual construction. What he has labeled as “Leonardo” was referring to the predominantly Western European […]
Spatial Intersections
Vladimir Tatlin exhibited his contre-reliefs in Moscow and Petrograd (St. Petersburg) in 1915. These three dimensional constructions inhabited corners, unlike his centre-reliefs which were mounted against a flat wall. One […]
Dynamic of the Metropolis
In a speech made at an informal general meeting of the Royal British Institute of Architects on December 9, 1936, László Moholy-Nagy outlined the spatial concepts that he elaborated in […]
Festival of Song and Light
American architect Claude Fayette Bragdon captivated audiences with his designs for mesmerizing light shows in the early twentieth century. In addition to his writings on the spatial fourth dimension, Bragdon […]
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