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Artist Federico Babina uses illustrations to depict different architectural styles.
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He recently created a 16 image series titled "Archistyle."
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"Archistyle" showcases the major design movements that have occurred over recent decades, and how those movements have changed architecture.
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"Architecture changes with society, it follows society and sometimes guides it," says Babina.
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"It's easy to see the changes of society through the mutation of spaces we inhabit."
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"Some simple geometry, the use of color, the mention of materials, typography and decorations are the ingredients that generate a composition which is a small tribute to architecture."
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Babina recently created a series of illustrations titled "Interheroes."
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"Interheroes" imagines the interior design for the apartments of superheroes.
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"Comic strips were one of my first encounters with architecture during my childhood," says Babina.
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"Travel -- with the imagination of a child -- through Gotham City in Batman or New York with Spider-Man helped the growth and education of a generation of architects."

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Spaces, a digital publication exploring new ways to live and work.

CNN  — 

Do you have trouble telling the difference between Modernism and Metabolism? Can’t decide if a building is Bauhaus or Brutalist? Illustrator Federico Babina is on hand to help with his new 16-image series breaking down the major design movements of recent decades.

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“Architecture changes with society, it follows society and sometimes guides it,” he says. “It’s easy to see the changes of society through the mutation of spaces we inhabit.”

His latest “Archistyle” series – following on from his superhero-design crossover in “Interheroes” – depicts the architectural traits unique to each movement, from the modular structures of Metabolism to the zany shapes of Postmodernism.

Adds Babina: “Some simple geometry, the use of color, the mention of materials, typography and decorations are the ingredients that generate a composition which is a small tribute to architecture.”

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