Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura
Rather than a catalog of works, Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura is a visual and textual manifesto introducing an attitude towards the design and realization of architecture in an interconnected and global environment. Taking the form of a radical monograph, the book curates SO-IL’s content based on conceptual themes, allowing… Continue reading
Africa Modern: Creating the Contemporary Art of a Continent
Africa Modern: Creating the Contemporary Art of a Continent surveys the continent’s art landscape and marks the opening of Zeitz MOCAA, the first major contemporary art museum in Africa. Edited by writer and cultural commentator Ekow Eshun and designed by Wallpaper*, the book is produced in association with Thomas Heatherwick,… Continue reading
Chaos and Culture
In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy… Continue reading
Your Glacial Expectations
The site-specific artwork Your Glacial Expectations is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between artist Olafur Eliasson and landscape architect Günther Vogt. Created in 2012 for the headquarters of the Danish textile company Kvadrat, the work consists of an installation by Eliasson seamlessly integrated into a landscape designed by Vogt. Large mirrors… Continue reading
LAB – Building a Home for Scientists
Laboratories are both monasteries and space stations, redolent of the great ideas of generations past and of technologies to propel the future. Yet standard lab design has changed only little over recent years. Here Mark Fishman describes how to build labs as homes for scientists, to accommodate not just their… Continue reading
Bengal Stream – The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has one of the most important buildings of the 20th cen-tury: its parliamentary building by Louis I. Kahn constructed between 1961 and 1982. Little is known, however, about the local architecture scene that has emerged since then. Yet contemporary architecture in Bangladesh exhibits a strong… Continue reading
Social Transparency: Projects on Housing
For the past decade, the Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan has designed multiunit housing in a city known for its proliferation of single-family residences. Working with the Skid Row Housing Trust, these projects advance new forms of supportive housing that address the services and infrastructures needed for their particular populations… Continue reading
Serpentine Pavilion and Summer Houses 2016
Championing the possibilities of new ideas in contemporary art since opening in 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions for almost half a century, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally… Continue reading
The Long Life of Design in Italy: B&B Italia. 50 Years and Beyond
Authors and contributors: by Stefano Casciani, Giorgio Busnelli (Foreword), Renzo Piano (Contributor), Ferruccio de Bortoli. B&B Italia, established in 1966 by Piero Ambrogio Busnelli,… Continue reading
L’Observatoire de la lumière
Book authored by Daniel Buren and published by Xavier Barral, Paris Order the book at Xavier Barral or on Amazon This publication offers a comprehensive view of Daniel Buren’s spectacular intervention on the Louis Vuitton Foundation’s building and presents the development of his work on colour,… Continue reading
African Modernism – Architecture of Independence
Exhibition and Book Book authored by Manuel Hertz Architects and published by Park Books, Zurich Order the book at Park Books, at your local book store or on Amazon Exhibition Tour: May 20, 2016 – June 30, 2016, Maison de l’Architecture, Pavillon SICLI, Geneva, Switzerland January 29, 2016 – April 16, 2016, Graham… Continue reading
Serpentine Pavilion 2015
Championing the possibilities of new ideas in contemporary art since opening in 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions for almost half a century, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists of our time, providing a place for them to experiment and… Continue reading