The Famous Grids of Iconic Cities, Deconstructed and Remixed
by Maria PopovaGreat metropolises, dissected and tidied up.
Some of the world’s most iconic cities define themselves by their famous grids. So what happens to the sense, notion, and identity of a city if the grid were dissolved and rearranged? That’s exactly what French artist Armelle Caron explores in her playful series “Everything Tidy,” doing to cities what Ursus Wehrli does to art — deconstructing the familiar grid representations into “tidy” graphic anagrams of famous metropolises.
New York City
Paris
Berlin
Istanbul
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