Inspirations.  

Mechanical Suprematist

Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...

Immersive sketch

Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...

Grabbed

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

Cutting the edges

Arctic Paper launches new swatch books for the brands Arctic, Amber and G-Print, as well as the two ...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

Fallingwater

Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Library

A library in the center of Moscow, study project.

penccil gifs

gifs from penccil projects.

Lattice

Architectural structures. Mario Gagliardi 2006

Chromatic seating

3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...

Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

Home Patterns

“Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

What Is A Simulation?

What is a simulation? It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...

Michael Schoner

Michael Schoner develops 3D and 2D designs in different scales varying from architecture and interio...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Shared Space

To develop better urban strategies and futures for communities in desert climates, Mario Gagliardi w...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...

Food Architecture

Food dal cucchiaio al mondo: Works of artists and architects who deal with the global political, soc...

Sky Walk

The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...

Akiko Masunaga

マスナガデザイン部／Art director／Designer／Ｏ型／乙女座

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

Microscopes of utopia

This are some of landscapes spaces of nowhere with spaces inside

Inspiration

Things which inspire me https://soundcloud.com/myrne/architect https://vimeo.com/173541384

Brazil Modernism

20th century architecture in Brazil, including work by Lina Bo Bardi, Lúcio Costa, Affonso Reidy, O...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture

A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

Tom Ngo

"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...

Future Architecture

Future Architecture Platform is a European program which promotes talents in architecture. Future A...

Superstudio, Superproduction, Superconsumption

Superarchitecture is the architecture of superproduction, of superconsumption, of superinduction to ...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks

We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...

Spatial Clusters

"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

The Glass House

"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...

Julius Shulman: Visual Drama

"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...

Bird´s Nest

I am often struck by the nests that crows build using clothes hangers. Hangers are not only durable ...

Mimicry and Makeshift

Two future visions for urbanism and ownership: Mimicry city - where everything wants to be owned. As...

Colliding Worlds

Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Amor Vacui

Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Archispecture

Architectural studies. Mario Gagliardi 2007-2010.

Palmyra, End of March, 2016

Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...

Luigi Colani

Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...

Small Buildings

Photographer Eric Tabuchi, born 1959, lives and works in Paris.

Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler

“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...

Harrison and Abramovitz

Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, who worked independently in New York in a partnershi...

Manufactured Landscapes

We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...

Color constructions

The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts the environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colou...

Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass

The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...

Pierre Besson

Pierre Besson: Fictions begins… Pierre Besson navigates between visual arts and architecture, and...

Weaving spaces

The project explores form in order to resolve a simple function: a roof

Mass, space, plane and line

"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...

Pascal Häusermann

Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Merzbau

"The Merzbau is the construction of an interior from sculptural forms and colours. In the glazed gro...

André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles

From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...

Roland Rainer

Roland Rainer, born 1910 in Klagenfurt, studied at the Technical University in Vienna. His dissertat...

Harry Seidler

Harry Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as son of Rose and Max Seidler. Rose was able to pursue her...

Ponte City

Ponte City is a skyscraper in the Hillbrow neighborhood of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built ...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry

Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...

Antonio Sant´Elia: The house of concrete, glass and steel

"No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements us...