My Nightmare Yields

“Unprincipled men tried to malign our time. Always we had to look back, always we had to be modelled on another time. But my nightmare yields. Yes, our time is beautiful. So beautiful, that I don’t want to live in another.”
Adolf Loos, quoted here

Farkas Molnar - The red cube - 1923

via Ross Wolfe

Gloria Freedman - Le Carré Rouge - 1997

Luis Barragan - Casa Gilardi - 1976

photography by Kim Zwarts, 1988

Invisible World

“The connecting of the idea of fourth dimension with existing theories of the invisible world or the world beyond is certainly quite fantastic, for, as has already been said, all religious, spiritualistic, theosophical and other theories of the invisible world first of all make it exactly similar to the visible and consequently ‘three-dimensional’ world.”
P. D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe, 1914

Gustav Klutsis - Composition - 1921

via Charnel House

Theo Van Doesburg - Tesseract with arrows pointing inward - 1924

Francesc Catala Roca - Dalí and hypercube - 1954

A World of Artifices

"You will find yourself once again, where all is factitious and mechanical, reduction and construction: another world inside the world; a world fabricated, rigged, engineered, a world of artifices, of distortion, of adaptation, of fiction, of vanity, a world that has sense or value only for man, who is its architect."

Luigi Pirandello, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, 1926

Piet Mondrian - Composition no.10 in black and white (pier and ocean) - 1915

Theo Van Doesburg - Landscape Study for Composition XII - 1918

Mies van der Rohe - Brick Country House - 1914

Freely in space

"Living buildings - city of space - functional architecture.
The new form of the city arises from necessity:

The country city: the division of city and country will be abolished
The time city: time is the measure of organisation of its space
The space city: it floats freely in space in a de-centralized federation dictated by the ground formation
The automatic city: the processes of daily life are mechanized."

Friedrich Kiesler, De Stijl 10/11, vol.6, 1925

Wenzel Hablik - Structure of a colony floating in the air - 1908

Riccardo Falletta Terafina - Plan für eine fliegende Stadt - 2011

via Drawing Architecture

Georgii Krutikov - The Flying City - 1928