UC Chile Architect Smiljan Radić Clarke Wins the 2026 Pritzker Prize, Considered the Nobel Prize of Architecture
“It is a strange surprise and a great honor,” expressed Radić after hearing the news. He is the second architecture graduate from UC Chile to receive this prestigious award, after Alejandro Aravena in 2016. The jury highlighted his “radical originality” and his “intentionally intimate practice, in which architecture remains… Continue reading
Discover LACMA’s New Architectural Landmark at These Free Workshops with AIA Los Angeles | Unframed
A sculptural, organic form crafted from architectural concrete and glass, LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries are as noteworthy as the global collection of art and objects they house. Pritzker Prize–winning architect Peter Zumthor envisioned the galleries on a single floor, without hierarchies, featuring natural light and transparency to the… Continue reading
Everything You Need to Know About LACMA’s New David Geffen Galleries | Unframed
Visiting David Geffen Galleries—LACMA’s new home for its permanent collection showcasing 6,000 years of art from around the world—is a museum experience unlike any other. Crafted from architectural concrete and glass, the building’s organic form spans Wilshire Boulevard, a sculptural whole that embraces the neighborhood. Outside, its elevated gallery… Continue reading
The Art of Transparency: Reiko Sudō’s Textile Innovation for LACMA | Unframed
One of the most distinctive features of the David Geffen Galleries is its perimeter wrapped by floor-to-ceiling glass windows, framing panoramic outdoor views that bring art into conversation with the surrounding city. For curators and conservators, however, the transparency of the building also raised concerns about any light-sensitive art… Continue reading
Why Architecture Can Improve our Lives
In Architecture is a Tool to Improve Lives, published recently by Birkhäuser, Anna Heringer impressively demonstrates what architecture can achieve for people, places and life itself. The atmospheric photographs by Iwan Baan speak for themselves. Source: Why Architecture Can Improve our Lives… Continue reading
Artist Diana Al-Hadid’s Studio Puts a Farm-Fresh Spin on Ye Olde Barn | Architectural Digest
For artist Diana Al-Hadid, her studio is nothing less than “an extension of my mind.” “I cannot really function unless I have a place to work,” she says. So who better to design a new sanctum from the ground up than the person who knows her best: her husband,… Continue reading
How They Pulled It Off: A Florida Beach House That’s Already Survived Three Hurricanes – Dwell
Architecture firm La Dallman balanced strict building codes with modernist aesthetics for a Sanibel Island home set up to weather storm after storm. Source: How They Pulled It Off: A Florida Beach House That’s Already Survived Three Hurricanes – Dwell… Continue reading
LA’s levitating amoeba: a radically new kind of museum
A hulking structure hangs above traffic on Wilshire Boulevard like a levitating amoeba. The concrete-and-glass colossus—designed by Peter Zumthor, a Swiss architect—is known as the David Geffen Galleries and is the new home of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (lacma), the largest art museum in western… Continue reading
Architectural Record
Peter Zumthor’s Bold Behemoth for LACMA Finally Opens April 16, 2026 After decades of controversy, the ambitious, serpentine concrete structure housing the new David Geffen Galleries makes its public debut. Source: Publications | Architectural Record… Continue reading
Michael Maltzan’s RIT Performing Arts Center Adds to a Staid Campus Palette | Architectural Record
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a renowned leader in STEM disciplines, offers top-of-the-line facilities within a staid suburban modernist campus. Its core—of which the first three buildings and master plan were designed by Roche-Dinkeloo following a move from downtown Rochester—opened in 1968, and since then the university has… Continue reading
DESIGN:ED Podcast: Alan Ricks & Sierra Bainbridge | Architectural Record
Architect Alan Ricks and landscape architect Sierra Bainbridge of Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS) join Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss the impacts on community through design, their Rwanda campus for the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and the firm’s new book, Seeking… Continue reading
Kéré Architecture Completes the Goethe-Institut Dakar | Architectural Record
Established in 1951, the Munich-headquartered cultural nonprofit Goethe-Institut houses its many worldwide locations in a dizzying array of significant buildings: a magnificent art nouveau former bank in Prague; a historic shopping arcade in Riga, Latvia; and a restored 18th-century Georgian residence on Dublin’s Merrion Square, just to name… Continue reading