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Ichnographia Cellae

An illustration of loneliness, togetherness, sameness, selflessness, laziness, asceticism, libertinism, domestication, inhabitation, socialization, incarceration, liberation, oppression, separation, individuation, cellularization, isolation, contemplation, collectivization, equality proximity, anonymity, poverty, luxury, interiority, enclosure, seclusion, exclusion, inclusion, life and prison.

A visual genealogy of the cell from cubicula to monastic cells, from workers’ lodgings to prison cells, from residential hotels to micro apartments.

Ichnographia Cellae

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Ichnographia Cellae

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Ichnographia Cellae

  1. 1. Cell for One Person in High-rise communal house

Avtostroj, USSR, 1929. Architect: OSA. Competition project

  1. 2. Monastery of St. Macarius

Nitria, Egypt, 300 – 400 CE

  1. 3. Great Lavra Monastery

Mount Athos, 350 – 400 CE

  1. 4. Charterhouse of Clermont

France, 14th century. Adapted from Viollet-le-Duc

  1. 5. Pandavleni Caves

Nasik, India, 150 CE

  1. 6. Lazzaretto

Milan, Italy, 15th century. Architect: Lazzaro Palazzi

  1. 7. Ajanta Cave

Nasik, India, 2nd century BCE

  1. 8. House of the Faun

Pompeii, Italy, 2nd century (80 – 90) BCE

  1. 9. Monastery of St. Macarius

Nitria, Egypt, 300 – 400 CE

  1. 10. Monastery of Skellig Michael

Ireland, 800 – 900 CE

  1. 11. Hermitage of Camaldoli

Arezzo, Italy, 1012

  1. 12. The Meeting of Saint Anthony and Saint Paul, Master of the Osservanza (Sassetta), 1430 – 1435

  1. 13. Florence Charterhouse

Italy, 14th century

  1. 14. Fuggerei

Augsburg, Germany, 1516. Architect: Jakob Fugger the Younger

  1. 15. Carcere di San Michele a Ripa

Rome, Italy, 1686. Architect: Carlo Fontana

  1. 16. One-Person Apartment, 1689

Architect: Cornelis Meijer. Theoretical project

  1. 17. The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet, 1849

  1. 18. Albergo dei Poveri

Naples, Italy, 1751. Architect: Ferdinando Fuga

  1. 19. Cottage for one or two workers,1806

Architect: John Wood the Younger. Theoretical project

  1. 20. Panopticon, 1791

Architect: Jeremy Bentham. Theoretical project

  1. 21. House for Unmarried Labourers, 1851

Architect: Henry Roberts. Built and demolished

  1. 22. Working womens’ home, 1869

Architect: John Kellum. Built and demolished

  1. 23. Western Motel, Edward Hopper, 1957

  1. 24. Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan, 1965

  1. 25. Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, 1976

  1. 26. New York Movie, Edward Hopper, 1938-39

  1. 27. Palace Hotel

San Francisco, USA, 1875. Architect: Trowbridge & Livingston

  1. 28. National Hotel

San Francisco, 1906

  1. 29. SRO Florence Hotel

Los Angeles, USA, renovated in 1985

  1. 30. Narkomfin Building, or Second House of Sovnarkom

Moscow, USSR, 1928–1930. Architect: Moisei Ginzburg and Ignaty F. Milinis

  1. 31. Nakagin Capsule Tower

Tokyo, Japan, 1972. Architect: Kisho Kurokawa

  1. 32. Die Architektur des Orgien Mysterien Theaters,

Hermann Nitsch, 1984 – 90

  1. 33. LACK Ikea side table

  1. 34. Men in The Cities, Robert Longo, 1980

  1. 35. Carmel Place Microapartments

New York City, USA, 2013–16. Architect: nArchitects

  1. 36. Cells and Conduits, Peter Halley, 2018

 

Ichnographia Cellae

Team

Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara, with Mariapaola Michelotto

Publication

e-flux – Confinement is a collaborative exhibition curated by gta exhibitions and e-flux Architecture, supported by the Adrian Weiss Stiftung and the ETH Zürich Foundation.

Link 

e-flux

2020