Rome: Spacious Surface

Fabian Marti's 'Two Hotel' Artists Guest House

"The idea of a hotel as a creative act is inspired by Alighero Boetti‘s One Hotel which he maintained in Kabul in the Sixties. However TwoHOTEL has a different focus as it is specifically aimed as a hotel for artists."

Images and full article at Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution

Mobile Office

Hans Hollein, Mobiles Büro / Mobile Office, 1969

"1969, lange bevor die mobile Kommunikation ihre Möglichkeiten entfaltet hatte, propagierte Hollein ein aufblasbares Büro, dass temporäres arbeiten an den verschiedensten Plätzen ermöglichen sollte. In der Abbildung zu sehen: Hans Hollein beim Zwischenstopp mit Reißbrett und Telefon am Flugfeld Asparn"

Image and text via hollein.com

Measuring Space

Images from the top:

William Forsythe, Lectures from improvisation technologies, 2011.

Rudolf Von Laban, Gammes Dynamosphériques, séquence de mouvement “A” 

Rudolf Von Laban, Gammes Dynamosphériques, séquence de mouvement “A” et “B” 

Rudolf Von Laban, Choreutics, an “analysis of forms in movement”. The three plans 

All images from Danse et architecture. Nouvelle de danse 42/43. Editions Contredanse

"Behind the exploration of more or less explicit ties between dance and visual arts in the 20th century, the recent exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris “Danser sa vie” hides a powerful investigation on the nature of space and the evolution of its representation through the body." 

Images and text via microcities.net , where you can read the whole article and see more photos.

Plans (which aren't really plans)

Images from the top:
Ellsworth Kelly, One Stroke 1959 (via artspotting)
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism With Eight Rectangles 1915 (via wikiart)
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, from hover series, 1996 (via bombmagazine)
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (Big Dipper), state I (via moma.org)
Robert Morris, Philadelphia Labyrinth 1974 (via wikiart)

Andrea Zittel: Investigating freedom

Andrea Zittel

Image 1-3 from top: Inhabitable sculptures – A-Z wagon stations

Bottom: A-Z Carpet Furniture: Cabin

"Blurring the line between art and life, american artist Andrea Zittel’s fascinating experiments in functional living showcase her preoccupation with self-sufficiency and adaptability. Since a decade she has been creating minimal self-sufficient dwelling spaces in which everyday actions such as sleeping, eating, cooking, bathing and socializing are transformed into acts of art."

Text from www.designboom.com Follow the link to read the full article.
Images via www.designboom.com, www.artnet.com and www.afterall.org

Constructing New York

Dóra Maurer Tracing Space

Dóra Maurer 

Tracing Space I, Tracing Space II, and Plan 1979

Gelatin silver prints and graphite

Since the 1970s, Maurer has explored the nature of space and movement though the use of serial sequences of images, signs, and language. Working in photography, film, and graphic design, she makes art based on mathematical and conceptual processes, often reversing, repeating, and repositioning objects for the camera. In Tracing Space I, II and Plan, the artist applied this serial process of observation to her studio, moving around the space while photographing it. The pictures, presented with her plan for taking them, reveal the connection between structure (or intent) and spontaneity (what the camera actually recorded). Maurer’s process–oriented oeuvre unites the concrete and the conceptual in a manner that suggests the centrality of perspective—in art, as in life.

Text from moma.org

Space defining drawing

Some more or less abstract space defining drawings for you: 

Robert Maki, Obsidian, 1985

David Hockney

Richard Aldrich

Zbigniew Warpechowski - Drawing in the Corner, 1971

Foto: Ramón Masats - Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1960  

Vibrant colors in Marrakesh