Modules

Ernst Nepo - Familienporträt. Kinder der Familie Keller - 1929

Koloman Moser - Die Stadt - "Kind und Kunst" journal - 1904-1905)

Paul Kirnig - ZEHO Building Blocks - 1929 

Space

Konstantin Rozhdestvensky - Suprematist Landscape (Cosmic Apparatus) - 1935

Mies van der Rohe - Glass Skyscraper Project - Elevation study - 1922

Herbert Bayer - Segesta - 1924

Vernacular

André Derain - Le château (ancien quartier de Cagnes) - 1910

Adriaan Lubbers - Haunted house (Positano) - 1924

Anita Rée - Weiße Nussbäume - 1922–1925

North

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis - Andante (Sonata II) - 1907

Piet Mondrian - Moulin le soir - 1908

Kuno Veeber - Windmill - 1918

Hieratic

Dénes Györgyi, Móric Pogány, and Emil Tőry - Hungarian Pavilion - Turin Universal Exhibition - 1911

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska - Hieratic head of Ezra Pound - 1914

Theo van Doesburg - Banister post - Alkmaar - 1917

Projection

Mies van der Rohe - Brick Country House - 1924

František Kupka - Plan Minuscule - 1930s

Saul Bass - Film titles for The Man with the Golden Arm - 1955

Jacob's Ladder

The Great mosque of al-Mutawakki - Samarra - 848

Emilio Terry - Maquette d'une maison en colimaçon - 1933

Philip Johnson - Church of Thanks-Giving - Thanks-Giving Square, Dallas - 1977

Cross Vault

Robert Delaunay - Saint-Séverin - 1909

Felix Delmarle - Bretonnes - 1910s

Otto Morach - Das Bild vom gotischen Dom - 1918-19

People wish to escape from personality

"Generally speaking, it can be said that people wish to escape from personality. When people are encouraged, as happens in a democratic society, to believe that they wish "to express their personality, the question at once arises as to what their personality is. For the most part, if investigated, it would be rapidly found that they had none. So what would it be that they would eventually "express "? And why have they been asked to "express" it?" Wyndham Lewis, "The Contemporary Man 'Expresses His Personality"' 
quoted here

Ludwig Hilberseimer - Hochhausstadt - 1924

Vadim Ryndin - Sets for Mashinal - 1933 

Sergey Luchishkin - The ball flew off - 1926

Move the world

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

Archimedes 

Koloman Moser - Sideboard and Fireplace for Moser’s Guest Room - 1902

Ivo Pannaggi - Casa Zampini - 1925 

Friedrich Kiesler - City in Space - 1925

What you intend to form

"Beauty will results from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole;that the structure may appear an entire and complete body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form." 

Andrea Palladio, The Four Books on Architecture, Book I, Chapter I

Ottone Rosai - Case al Sole - 1956

Antonio Donghi - Convento - 1928

Telemaco Signorini - Via Torta Firenze - 1870

Shattered

“The fact is that around 1910 a certain space was shattered. It was the space of common sense, of knowledge (savoir), of social practice, of political power, a space hitherto enshrined in everyday discourse, just as in abstract thought, as the environment of and channel for communication; the space, too, of classical perspective and geometry, developed from the Renaissance onwards on the basis of the Greek tradition (Euclid, logic) and bodied forth in Western art and philosophy, as in the form of the city and town.” 

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, 1974
quoted in Astradur Eysteinsson

Caspar David Friedrich - Das Eismeer - 1823-4

Giorgio de Chirico - La mansarda dell’Architetto (L’automa) - 1925

via ThirdOrgan

Lebbeus Woods - Underground Berlin - 1988
via Domus

Number, Measure, and Law

"We need number, measure, and law as armor and as a weapon, lest we be swallowed up by chaos."

Oskar Schlemmer, Perspektiven, 1932

quoted by Beau H Rhee

Koloman Moser - Flower basket S 781 - 1906

Giuseppe Terragni - Casa del Fascio - Como - 1932

Sol Lewitt - 21B - 1989
via Archive of Affinities

Everything that is New

"Everything that is new is good, beyond the new there is no health. Humanity endures only by renewing itself constantly, by killing with years its old age."

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Interrogations, 1917
quoted by Robert Wohl

Louis Lozowick - New York - 1925

Anton Stankowski - Geometrical Mural - 1928

Giacomo Balla - Compenetrazione Iridescente 13 - 1912-13

Adulterated

"I have reread Nietzsche, lately, during military maneuvers in Silesia. He had great gifts as novelist, but his Overman is still-born. The name alone make me think of all this modern advertisement, to all those products that cannot hold the name of a substance, because they are adulterated."
Valery Larbaud, AO Barnabooth: His Diary, 1913
c.f. Eric Michaud, Le mythe social, ou l'efficacité de l'image sans images

John Vanderpant - No.2 Towers in White - 1934

Georgia O’Keeffe - City Night - 1926

Henri Cartier-Bresson - New York City - 1947

Barnett Newman - Moment - 1946
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Corporeal, Material Nature

“Aisthesis is the sensory experience of perception. The original field of aesthetics is not art but reality--corporeal, material nature.” 

Susan Buck-Mors, Aesthetics and Anaesthetics,Walter Benjamin’s Artwork essay reconsidered, 1992

Cornelis Van Eesteren and Theo Van Doesburg - University Hall - 1923

Hans Van Der Laan - Abdij Roosenberg Waasmunster - East Flander - 1975

Auguste Perret - St Joseph Church - Le Havre - 1951 -  By Alexandra Polyakova

Building Material for an Edifice

“If metaphysics claims to he made up of concepts which were ours before its advent, if it consists in an ingenious arrangement of pre-existing ideas which we utilize as building material for an edifice, if, in short, it is anything else but the constant expansion of our mind, the ever-renewed effort to transcend our actual ideas and perhaps also our elementary logic, it is but too evident that, like all the works of pure understanding, it becomes artificial.” 
Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics, 1903

Stefan Jasienski – Miss Metrópolis - 1931

Joseph Astor - Philip Johnson wearing the PPB tower as a hat - Vanity Fair - 1996

Unknown Photographer - Costumes at the Arts Ball - Hotel Astor - 1931

via Dwell

Alexander Rodchenko - Sketch for a costume for "The Sixth Part of The World" - 1931

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