Federico Babina is an italian illustrator and his series ‘ARCHIMACHINE’ is a collection of 17 illustration to describes 17 countries whose gears are made and operated by architecture. Each element in the wheel is a key piece for its functioning, ‘a surrealist spaceship where the country and its symbols floating weightless… a microcosm that transports the imagination,’ says Babina.

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Federico Babina describes, ARCHIMACHINE illustrations as a metaphor for how architecture acts as a fundamental mechanism in the production of the identity/culture of both a place and that place’s inhabitants: “We make our buildings and afterwards they make us.”

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Published on: May 6, 2014
Cite: "ARCHIMACHINE by Fedérico Babina." METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/archimachine-fed%C3%A9rico-babina> ISSN 1139-6415
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