Two Sides of the Border

Under the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, thirteen architecture studios and students across the United States and Mexico undertook the monumental task of attempting to capture the complex and dynamic region of the US/Mexican border. Two Sides of the Border envisions the borderland through five themes: migration, housing and… Continue reading

Justice is beauty

Founded in 2008, MASS Design Group collaborated with Partners In Health and the Rwanda Ministry of Health to design and build the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda, a masterwork of architecture that also uniquely serves a community in need. Since then, MASS has grown into a dynamic collaborative of architects,… Continue reading

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio Book Luisiana

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

The third volume of the series also named The Architect’s Studio, this book focuses on Tatiana Bilbao’s exploration of the landscape: from the territory of Mexico to the interior landscape of the individual building, always taking social conditions into account. This is demonstrated in Bilbao’s various projects such as the… Continue reading

Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People

Balkrishna V. Doshi (b. 1927 in Pune) is one of the most influential pioneers of modern architecture in India. His life’s work was honored in 2018 with the prestigious Pritzker Prize. Doshi has realized more than one hundred projects, including administrative and cultural facilities, housing developments, and residential buildings. He… Continue reading

Torre Reforma

LBR&Arquitectos, a firm founded in 1976 by Mexican architect Benjamín Romano, designs and builds architecture projects based on four defining principles: sustainability, structure, high technology and artistic integration. The firm is responsible for one of Mexico City’s tallest skyscrapers, the Reforma Tower (2016), built on the corner of Paseo de… Continue reading

2018 Bruges Triennial: Liquid City

From May 5 to September 16, 2018, Bruges will be the setting for the second edition of the Triennial, an art route in the heart of the historic city. With the central theme ‘Liquid City’, the Triennial wants to investigate the role of a city like Bruges in a globalized… Continue reading

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

ZOOM! Architektur und Stadt im Bild – Andres Lepik

Contemporary architecture is faced with a host of exceptional dilemmas: within the context of continuing global urbanisation, the increasing challenges posed by immigration and social inequality, and amidst crumbling cities and the relentless expansion of slums, architecture now has to prove its social relevance for the future. Architectural photography plays… Continue reading

Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age – Alona Pardo

The relationship between architecture and photography is the focus of this book that features the work of eighteen influential artists, from the 1930s to the present day. Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilize the medium not just to document the built world, but also to… Continue reading

Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography – Elias Redston

Photography has always played a vital role in how architecture is communicated. For most of us, it is how we experience the most exceptional, arresting, unreachable, beautiful or ephemeral works we cannot visit in person. With immediate distribution and consumption of imagery now so readily available, photography and architecture together… Continue reading