Coffee table books have bad press, but these two volumes deserve attention. Drawing Architecture gathers almost 300 drawings, from a Sumerian sanctuary floor plan engraved over 4,000 years ago on the sculpture of the architect-king Gudea to H&deM’s E
Most of the time, The New York Times asks you to read something. Today we are inviting you, simply, to look. On this page you will find maps showing almost every building in the United States. Why did we make such a thing? We did it as an opportunity
The exhibition ‘Cartographies of the Unknown’ gathers more than 200 pieces from the collection of the National Library of Spain as well as other institutions, like the National Geographic Institute, the Royal Academy of History, the Royal Palace, and
The artist Stephen Walter (London, 1975) uses drawing as a research tool to study the cultural residues that inhabit our landscapes today, creating an intricate panorama of personal and collective experiences. Each one of his maps, painstakingly deta
In Barcelona, the exhibition ‘Cartografías contemporáneas’ (Contemporary Cartographies) offers a view of how current artists question representation systems and provide new formu-las to classify reality. The 140 works by 77 authors – which include dr
Matthew Picton sculpts cities on paper, representing not only the formal characteristics of the urban fabric, but also the events that shaped it. With a degree in Political Science and History, the London artist dissects the political past of cities
Some images drastically alter our way of looking. The view from space that can be had of the planet transformed our very perception of the world, whose unitary and delicate nature was from then on clearly fixed in our minds and retinas. Similarly, th
