Camouflage
Marcia Feuerstein and I have written a chapter in Architectures of Hiding (Routledge, 2024) that examines “Camouflage after the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy, and György Kepes.” In this chapter, […]
Tag Archives: Space
Is Time Space?
American inventor and photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford, then entrepreneur and horse breeder, later Governor of California, to study the motion of his horses at his ranch […]
Choreosophy
In his exposition on the geometry of movement, Choreutics (1966), choreographer and dance theorist Rudolf von Laban attributed the ancient Greek term choreosophia, a combination of choros meaning circles and sophia meaning […]
The Circus
The Circus was produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1928. In this scene, the Tramp runs headlong into a fun house mirror maze to avoid capture by the police, after […]
Relativity
Although Einstein’s “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper” (“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”), known later as his Special Theory of Relativity, and his “Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie” (“The Foundation of […]
Cosmic View
In 1977, American designers Charles and Ray Eames completed their second film under the title, Powers of Ten,[i] based on the book, Cosmic View, by Dutch engineer Cornelius (Kees) Boeke.[ii] […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jodi La Coe, R.A. 