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Bursting through the grid

Photography @francisdelacroixstudio by @lethe.works

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Jean-Paul Jungmann: Architect of the Nomadic Future
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Active since the early 1970s, French designer and architect Jean-Paul Jungmann developed a radical body of work around nomadic, modular, and autonomous architecture. His structures—lightweight, prefabricated, and rapidly deployable—were conceived to be inhabited anywhere, outside conventional urban systems.⁠
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One of his key contributions was Les Utopies Gonflables, a collaborative exploration of inflatable architecture that challenged traditional ideas of permanence, monumentality, and form. These pneumatic structures—soft, temporary, and easily transportable—were both technically experimental and culturally symbolic, merging ecological thinking with countercultural critique.⁠
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Influenced by groups like Archigram, Frei Otto, and Yona Friedman, Jungmann’s work was part of a broader cultural moment where architecture intersected with ecological, social, and technological imagination.⁠ by @lethe.works

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Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

Doré’s illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today, nearly 150 years after their initial publication, the artist's rendering of the poet's text still determines our vision of the Commedia. Planned by Doré as early as 1855, the Dante illustrations were the first in a series he referred to as the "chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature." In addition to Dante, Doré's list of illustrated great works included Homer, Ossian, Byron, Goethe, Racine, and Corneille by @lethe.works

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Walter Jonas was born on 1910 in Oberursel, Germany. He was a graphic artist and art critic, but his researches and interest led him to design a city called Intrapolis. Based on his finding that traditional or modern homes were all oriented towards the outside, but instead of great landscapes and views, they had noise, dust and noxious gases, Jonas has worked in rethinking the meaning of “home”. Inspired by a trip to Brazil in 1958, Jonas has developed a vision of a new humane urban form: the Intrapolis. This is directed against the traditional way of urban development. by @lethe.works

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Dash Snow (1981-2009) was a provocative American artist known for his graffiti, photography, collage, and wild lifestyle. He embraced the subcultures of skateboarding and punk, leaving his mark on the streets as "Sace." His gritty photographs captured raw moments of drugs and sex, while his collages reflected his fragmented worldview. Snow's art pushed boundaries in the downtown NYC scene. He had connections with artists such as Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen. Tragically, he died of a drug overdose at 27, leaving behind a legacy of unapologetic exploration by @lethe.works

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Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) was an influential American architect, known as the "father of skyscrapers."

Born in Boston, Sullivan studied architecture at MIT and later attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Sullivan was influenced by architectural critic John Ruskin and collaborated with Dankmar Adler.

His ornamentation, often referred to as "Sullivanesque," was intricate and organic, inspired by natural forms such as leaves, flowers, and geometric patterns. He incorporated these decorative elements into the facades of his buildings, using materials like terra cotta and cast iron.

Sullivan's ideas influenced architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, shaping the modernist movement.

Louis Sullivan’s innovative designs and emphasis on functionalism left a lasting impact on American architecture, particularly the Chicago School of Architecture.

#louissullivan by @lethe.works

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Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966)

A seminal British set designer, director, and theorist who revolutionized the world of theatre during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His innovative ideas, avant-garde design concepts and a desire to reimagine traditional theatrical conventions made him an influential figure in the development of modern theatre.

Craig's inspirations came from various sources, including the works of William Shakespeare, the Symbolist movement, the Japanese Noh theatre, and the German composer Richard Wagner. He was particularly inspired by the notion of the "Gesamtkunstwerk" or "total work of art," a concept that aimed to unify all elements of a production, including set design, costumes, and lighting.

Craig collaborated with many prominent figures in the theatre world, including the acclaimed Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski. Their joint production of Hamlet in 1911-1912 is considered a significant milestone in theatrical history. Craig also worked with other prominent artists of his time, such as theatre director and producer Harley Granville Barker and French playwright Adolphe Appia.

He introduced the use of abstract and symbolic sets, as well as three-dimensional movable screens called "screens" or "panels," which allowed for greater flexibility in scene transitions and visual storytelling. by @lethe.works

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Operating on the frontier between art and architecture, Graham Stevens builds inflatable forms and environments that create a dialog between poetry and hyper-technology. Engaged in a critical approach to architecture and opposed to its “rootedness,” Stevens advocates an art of air and movement by @lethe.works

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Exodus 1972, Rem Koolhaas

Once, a city was divided in two parts. One part became the Good Half, the other part the Bad Half.
The inhabitants of the Bad Half began to flock to the good part of the divided city, rapidly swelling into an urban exodus.
If this situation had been allowed to continue forever, the population of the Good Half would have doubled, while the Bad Half would have turned into a ghost town.
After all attempts to interrupt this undesirable migration had failed, the authorities of the bad part made desperate and savage use of architecture: they built a wall around the good part of the city, making it completely inaccessible to their subjects.

The Wall was a masterpiece. by @lethe.works

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Instant City, Ibiza, 1971

José Miguel de Prada Poole, Carlos Ferrater and Fernando Bendito

The instant city was a self-built structure made with inflatable plastics and staple-guns, that could disappear after use without any trace in the landscape. It was designed as a solution to overcome the lack of temporary accommodation for students and participants of the VII Congress of International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) in Ibiza. The Manifesto of the Instant City was sent to architecture and design schools all over the world as an invitation to participate. It was a symbol and, at the same time, the implementation of an alternative ideology based on participation and experimentation that characterised that edition of the Congress. The organisation provided the materials, but everyone should build their own habitation that was integrated into the whole structure. by @lethe.works

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Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma
A life in cubes

Long before prominent DIY design projects, such as Victor Papanek’s Nomadic Furniture and Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione, in the early sixties Slothouber & Graatsma designed a revolutionary, modular DIY system: a ‘simple and economically viable solution with universal applications’. The duo then became successful not only in the design world, but also in that of visual art.

However, after exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum and the Venice Biennale the interest in their construction system waned. Although the cube was lauded as a democratic art form that is both understandable and manageable to all, commercial success remained elusive. The modular sofas and other furniture by Slothouber & Graatsma, described by experts as ‘social sculptures’, never went into production and the museums were also less than eager to acquire their work. Graatsma saw it as a temporary dip. ‘Following the undulating motion of history, the interest in minimalistic and geometric forms will return.’ by @lethe.works

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