Architect: Winold Reiss
The Future City
9 June 2021
The Future City9 June 2021
Antonio Sant’Elia foresees the technological cities of the mid to late 20th century. High-rise towers shooting skyward, train lines and highways articulated as horizontally streaking into vanishing points, and aeroplanes arriving and departing omnidirectionally. Similarly, Winold Reiss’s Future City: Study for a Mural, is an homage to technological advancement, and… Read More
Future Scenarios, Part I
30 May 2013
Future Scenarios, Part I30 May 2013
– Niall Hobhouse and Nicholas Olsberg
Capturing the rainbow: the city of tomorrow On any given day late in the 1930s, so someone has calculated, more than 30,000 Americans either bought a train ticket or ordered lunch looking at one of the murals of the designer Winold Reiss. With each new commission, and as the burdens… Read More
art practice theoretical & imaginary domestic exhibition public space theatre elevation work on paper (series) projection (axonometric isometric) DMC