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With Milan being the Italian hub for industrialization in the late 1800s/early 1900s, the death of anarchist Angelo Galli sparked political conflict between the anarchists and the police. Angelo Galli was stabbed to death by factory security guards…

Lucien Kroll was commissioned in 1976 to begin work on the reinvigoration of a residential district in Cergy-Pontoise, and he set about the development of the neighborhood Les Vignes Blanches with the intentions of a collaborative process between…

While Vignes-Blanches was designed with the intention of providing a mutualistic relationship between the occupant and the architect, the realization of this goal proved more difficult in its execution. Lucien Kroll and his Atelier were awarded a…

The City Rises composes all dominant motives of the Italian Futurist movement onto one canvas. Boccioni is showing the ongoing construction of a power plant in Milan, Italy while hounding the “speed and movement” (wallector.com) tropes of Futurism.…

This project was requested by a newly settled Dominican community to be a quadratic shaped building built on a Belgian farm. The purpose of this building was to be a space that brought people together to live, connect, learn, and worship. Inside this…

The Italian Futurist painter, Giacomo Balla, painted on canvas Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912), a piece that became one of the most recognizable art works from the Futurist movement. The painting portrays a woman walking a dachshund on a leash.…

The Firenze Santa Maria Novella Railway Station was constructed in 1934 by the Italian fascist government. It was designed by a group of architects known as the “Gruppo Tuscano” and was built under the constriction that it be the “most inconspicuous,…

F.T. Marinetti’s Founding and Manifesto of Futurism served as the spark for the Futurist movement, a movement which was an “incendiary device, upholding the new values of speed, destruction, and violence necessary for a new age of Italian national…

Family was an essential part of Inca societal structures, and bonds within families were strong even outside the nuclear family structure. The Inca name for the broad family was “ayllu” and were essentially one group comprised of many smaller…

The Incan llama, as pictured above, is a 6cm by 1cm gold figurine that was presented as an offering, likely accompanied by gifts such as golden human figures and human sacrifice. The item has been hammered into shape, and represents the mark of the…