Vinyls of Asia always amaze me when I see them in car boot sales, so here is a little introduction to the artist who made them.
Roger Dean is an artist, architect and designer (his “retrait pod” is featured in Clockwork Orange) whose work mostly deals with fantasy and sci-fi.
Mostly known for the covers he made for progressive rock bands such as YES and ASIA always featuring fantastic landscapes and creatures and crazy typework, he also did most of the covers for the video game development house Psygnosis (responsible for Barbarian, Shadow of the Beast and many other classics…) and of course their logo.

YES, he also did TETRIS.

Special bonus ; Roger’s house.

Tags: architecture, art, Asia, cover, Dean, design, fantasy, painting, Roger, Yes.

One more post about experimental architecture. Much more SciFi than architecture. The Bauhaus killer. But that’s the way I like it.

“The pre-packaged frozen lunch is more important than Palladio”

Peter Cook, Archigram

A Walking City in New York, Drawing by Ron Herron

A hovercraft
Opens up
To become
A village

The Plug In City, Drawings by Peter Cook

Find more there: Archigram Official Site (!)
or there: Archigram on Designmuseum

Tags: archigram, architecture, experimental architecture.

Yona is definitely my favorite utopian architect.

Have a look on these crazy artworks he made for some huge architecture competitions (I think he almost never built anything), such as the Centre Pompidou, or the Forum des Halles in Paris.

Most of his work deals with post-apocalyptic matters: Rebuilding cities from scratch, in a world anihilated by a nuclear war or space pioneers homes.
Try to find his book L’architecture de Survie.

Tags: architecture, experimental architecture, Friedman, utopian, Yona.