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Watch the Grand Ring at Expo 2025 Osaka light up for the first time

2024-12-08T08:00:00-05:00

With the official opening of Expo 2025 Osaka just over five months away, organizers have shared a dramatic aerial video of its finally illuminated ring structure.

The wooden Grand Ring structure designed by Sou Fujimoto is equal to 1,969 feet (600 meters) in diameter, serving as the main circulatory route for the event and its participants from 161 different countries/regions. Festivities kick off on April 13th, 2025 and will end on October 13th.

More details about the structure are here.

Image from Expo 2025 Osaka via Youtube

Popular Gingerbread City contest returns with ideas for the 'Recycled City'

2024-12-05T16:08:00-05:00

‘Tis the season for the UK's annual Gingerbread City design contest, which draws in some of the country’s top names and is hosted by London’s Museum of Architecture.

Llewelyn Davies' design for The Gingerbread City. Image: © Luke O'Donovan

WilkinsonEyre's design for The Gingerbread City. Image: © Luke O'Donovan

This year’s theme calling for a 'Recycled City' drew over 45 participants to The Gaumont in Chelsea. There, 25 savory structures were assembled with some nods to the country’s heritage architecture and other references to the London Underground and remade Battersea Power Station spread throughout the building’s ground-level retail spaces on KIng’s Road.

Atelier Ten's design for The Gingerbread City. Image: © Luke O'Donovan

Studio Bark's design for The Gingerbread City. Image: © Luke O'Donovan

Melissa Woolford, the Founder and Director of Museum of Architecture stated: "For centuries, cities like London have been transforming and converting old places and buildings into new a...

Archinect入驻微信，小红书平台 / Archinect launches on WeChat and RED in China

2024-11-27T19:35:00-05:00

Archinect is thrilled to announce our official debut on two of China’s leading social media platforms—WeChat and RED (Xiaohongshu). This milestone marks an important step in Archinect’s 27-year mission of connecting the global architecture community. With an official presence on these platforms, we aim to establish closer connections with Chinese-speaking architects and design enthusiasts.

Since its founding in 1997, Archinect has been dedicated to fostering meaningful connections among architects worldwide. By launching on WeChat and RED, we’re excited to bring Archinect’s distinctive voice to China’s thriving architecture and design scene while introducing exclusive content tailored for our growing audience.

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WHY Architecture reveals Yoshimoto Pavilion for Expo 2025

2024-11-20T10:37:00-05:00

WHY Architecture has shared the first images of its design for the Yoshimoto Pavilion as part of the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka, which takes place from April 13th to October 13th next year. The spherical waraii myraii (or 'a smiling future') design will host a cultural exchange based around a concept of "expanding new possibilities of laughter for a true 'Future Society For Our Lives.'" We recently featured the firm's current need for an experienced Project Architect in Culver City, CA in a roundup of domestic employment opportunities. WHY is also recently behind the Louvre's planned expansion of its Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art galleries for 2027.

'Schindler Space Architect' documentary premieres in Los Angeles

2024-11-19T16:20:00-05:00

Here's a heads-up for L.A.-based fans of Rudolph Schindler. Do not miss tonight’s premiere screening of Valentina Ganeva’s new documentary Schindler Space Architect at 7:30 p.m. in Beverly Hills.

Ganeva recently spoke to KCRW about some of its insights, including the overlooked feminist design considerations present in the Schindler House on North Kings Road. Narrated by Meryl Streep and Udo Kier, the film features commentary from Steven Holl, Ray Kappe, Thom Mayne, and Frank Gehry, among others. Ganeva says their critique of Schindler's "spirit of innovation" is still important for today's architects to imbibe. The ticketed screening takes place at the Writers Guild Theatre on 135 S. Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills and will be followed shortly afterward by a Q&A.

Watch Riken Yamamoto's remarks from the 2024 Pritzker Prize ceremony

2024-11-14T15:35:00-05:00

Video from this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Riken Yamamoto’s May lecture and award presentation ceremony in Chicago has been shared with Archinect to celebrate the 46th edition of architecture’s most important individual honor.

The documentary-style film provides a behind-the-scenes look at the festivities, featuring commentary from Norman Foster and Yale School of Architecture dean Deborah Berke, among several others.

Berke tells us "I think the most important thing about it is how subtle it is and how willing he is as an architect to let the buildings be background in order to foreground human interaction" in deference to Yamamoto's deep understanding of both relational aesthetics and the art of the urban form.

Video courtesy of The Hyatt Foundation/The Pritzker Architecture Prize

More commentary from jurors Barry Bergdoll, Stephen Breyer, André Corrêa do Lago, Kazuyo Sejima, and Wang Shu provided an additional spotlight on Yamamoto’s legacy of social advocacy th...

AIA announces participation in CO29 summit in Azerbaijan

2024-11-12T13:10:00-05:00

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced its fourth official cohort of delegates that will be traveling to Azerbaijan to represent the organization and its interests at this month’s COP29 Summit in Baku. The contingent will be present to share the AIA's call on industry and governments to increase the amount of research and development for emerging decarbonization technologies. The announcement also mentions the publication of the AIA's first-ever AIA Materials Pledge ‘By the Numbers’ annual report, which includes 280 signatories. COP29 takes place from November 11th to the 22nd this year against claims of greenwashing and authoritarianism on the part of the Azerbaijani government.

Get Lectured: Florida Atlantic University, Fall '24/Spring '25

2024-11-04T12:23:00-05:00

The School of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University is sharing its public speakers and events information for the new academic year as part of our Get Lectured series.

The poster below, designed by the school's Director, Joseph Choma, combines a layered graphic with a series of folded pleats. "The simple symmetrical crease pattern adds a subtle three-dimensional depth, while the graphic design provides another visual depth to complement and contrast with the folds," Choma told Archinect.

Image courtesy of Joseph Choma/FAU School of Architecture

The Fall semester's packed slate that has thus far seen speakers from UNC Charlotte, Northeastern University, and the Harvard GSD concludes on November 7 with a lecture from Zackery Belanger, a leading expert in architectural acoustics.

Image courtesy of Joseph Choma/FAU School of Architecture

Events begin again in the Spring '25 semester with a lecture from TU Delft’s Mariana Popescu on January 14. SCI-Arc’s Jenny Wu will visit campus on...

Chicago Architecture Biennial picks UIC School of Architecture director Florencia Rodriguez to lead CAB 6, 'Shift'

2024-11-01T15:17:00-04:00

The scope of next year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 6) will be responsive to changes within architecture and other salient issues united under the theme Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change and curated by UIC School of Architecture director Florencia Rodriguez.

The Biennial’s first female and Latin American Director, Rodriguez, will seek to chart a "new agenda for contemporary design" through the inclusion of installations, exhibitions, virtual initiatives, and other educational events taken from an international open call for what is now North America’s largest contemporary architecture exhibition.

She says the exhibition will be "an opportunity to gather global experiences, ideas, and projects that create an archive of contemporary architecture to inform decision making, education, debate, and collective thinking about the world we design."

Iceland will flow into 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with 'Lavaforming' pavilion

2024-10-31T10:49:00-04:00

Lava will shape Iceland's official entry Lavaforming at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, showcasing how its density and other natural properties can become a viable future building material for designs as far-ranging as small residential structures, cityscapes, and more.

Image render courtesy s.ap architects

Arnhildur Pálmadóttir, founder of the s.ap architects, is responsible for the curation of the pavilion’s story arch, which is set in the year 2150. She says: "Lavaforming is exploring a building material that has never been used before. The theme is both a proposal and a metaphor – architecture is in a paradigm shift, and many of our current methods have been deemed obsolete or harmful in the long term. In our current predicament we need to be bold, think in new ways, look at challenges, and find the right resources."

Image render courtesy s.ap architects

Iceland Design and Architecture director Halla Helgadóttir says also that this presentation has the potential to "draw a...

Don't miss Tulane University's Gulf Coast Climate Futures Symposium, Nov. 1–2, in New Orleans

2024-10-24T14:48:00-04:00

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Next week in New Orleans, the Tulane University School of Architecture will be hosting the two-day Gulf Coast Climate Futures Symposium in collaboration with the School of Engineering and supported by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program.

Kate Orff, writer Nathaniel Rich, and David Waggonner will be among the invited speakers spread across three moderated panels, each bringing their own perspective on climate adaptation and decarbonizing the built environment.

The school says the symposium aims to consider the visions and tools that advance toward the targets set forth by the 2015 Paris Agreement. It will also serve as context and grounding for the basis of Tulane’s brand new cross-disciplinary Master of Landscape + Engineering (MLA-MS RCSE) program from Tulane's School of Architecture and School of Science and Engineering.

Two others — the newly launched Center on Climate Cha...

Rowan Moore reviews new 'Difficult Sites' exhibition on challenging architectural parameters

2024-10-22T12:02:00-04:00

This small but rewarding show is a celebration of architectural skill and ingenuity, spurred on by whatever complexities might arise. Its exhibits include models and drawings supplied by contemporary practices, and taken (albeit, regrettably, only as reproductions) from RIBA’s collections. Some projects seek to soar above the mucky stuff. Others embrace the difficulties, making them into an occasion to create something that would never otherwise have come into being.

Speaking to the more than 20 building projects selected for the show, Moore added: "The qualities of thought on display are as relevant as ever, as the physical demands of climate emergency, and the challenges of providing new housing on a restricted supply of land, bring a whole new level of difficulty to bear. In these circumstances, design is not a luxury but a necessity. It’s beyond the scope of the RIBA exhibition to propose how these vaster challenges can be met, but it demonstrates creative intelligence that can be applied to more than the occasional delightful home."

If you're feeling up to the challenge, 'Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds', which opened on October 11th, will remain on view until March 25th, 2025 at the RIBA Architecture Gallery in London.

Michael Kimmelman goes in search of Paul Rudolph’s true legacy at the Met

2024-10-17T18:17:00-04:00

He’s now the subject of a modest but riveting retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, organized by Abraham Thomas, called 'Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph,' whose first order of business is obviously to answer a question people outside architecture circles will ask, namely: Who was he?

The exhibition, the Met’s first major show on modern architecture in almost fifty years, opened on September 30th and includes over 80 artifacts from the Kentucky-born Rudolph’s five-decade career. The last day to see this is March 16th, 2025.

Kimmelman says it offers an interesting recount of how the "shining light of the Kennedy era" morphed into league with the originator of his failed Lower Manhattan Expressway plan, Robert Moses, bemoaning "his grand plans and recklessness, his truculence and tragic arc."

Get Lectured: University of Oregon, Fall '24

2024-10-17T11:17:00-04:00

Today, the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Environment has shared its public events and lectures information as part of our Get Lectured roundups for Fall 2024.

This week has seen appearances from Bill Leddy and LEVER’s Thomas Robinson. The events continue over the weekend with the two-day Reynolds Symposium from October 18-19.

Next, professors Nico Larco and Kaarin Knudson will make their first Sustainable Design Urban Handbook presentation on October 23. Following that are three lectures by Ameyalli Mañon-Ferguson, Julie Eizenberg and Katherina Körber on October 25, November 11, and November 13, respectively. Nader Tehrani closes the term with the final lecture on November 18.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Get Lectured: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Fall '24

2024-10-15T11:05:00-04:00

Today we are continuing Get Lectured with a look at three speakers who will be visiting the Cal Poly College of Architecture and Environmental Design in San Luis Obispo this semester.

The CAED shares: “The 2024/25 Hearst Lectures is a series of discussions with designers, activists and professionals of the built environment whose work interrogate ecological, societal and material crisis. URGENCIES is a project that was organized to motivate conversations across the five CAED departments. Students and faculty are invited to participate in a conversation about how the built environment is interdependent on structures of power, colonization and extraction, with the hope that we can envision alternative futures together.”

Lecturers include Dan Koch of Allied Works (November 1); California College of the Arts professor Janette Kim (November 8); and botanist Peter Del Tredici of Harvard University (November 15).

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Get Lectured: University of Waterloo, Fall '24

2024-10-09T14:28:00-04:00

The University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture has shared its Arriscraft Canada Brick Speaker Series information for the Fall 2024 semester.

Upcoming events include a panel discussion on 'Climate Resilience Inspired by Monsoon Culture' with Turenscape founder and 2023 Oberlander Prize winner Kongjian Yu on Thursday, October 24. Following that will be a discussion on creating public space with Class of 1999 BArch graduate Rosa Chang on Friday, November 1. Yale University's Mae-ling Lokko closes the term with a look at the potential for climate adaptation and bio-based materials on Thursday, November 21.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Get Lectured: East Los Angeles College, Fall '24

2024-10-07T13:25:00-04:00

Get Lectured continues with a look at what’s in store this semester at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) in Los Angeles.

Guest speakers for the Fall academic term will include Jorge Gracia (October 23); Linda Taalman (November 6); Jimenez Lai (November 20). Each is free and open to the public beginning at 12:00 PM each day. The lectures will also be available on Zoom with the ID # 878 4737 2433 and Passcode 656604.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Exhibit Columbus announces Miller Prize winners and University Design Research Fellows for fifth cycle

2024-10-07T10:24:00-04:00

Recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and University Design Research Fellows (UDRF) have been announced for the fifth cycle of Exhibit Columbus ahead of next year’s event in Columbus, Indiana.

Each will produce installations responding to the previously announced theme 'Yes, And', which calls for participants to "work from existing materials to shape positive change.”

The four Miller Prize recipients will work with a paired institution at sites around the city to create installations that serve as the focal point of the 2025 exhibition. They include:

Adaptive Operations (Chicago, Illinois) Site: The Crump Theatre
AD—WO (Brooklyn, New York) Site: The former Irwin Block Building
Studio Barnes (Miami, Florida) Site: The Jackson Street Parking Garage
Studio Cooke John (New York, NY) Site: The First Christian Church Sunken Courtyard

Five curatorial partners were able to choose from 50 submissions to a national open-call. The six teams they selected will each expand on current...

Get Lectured: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall '24

2024-10-05T10:00:00-04:00

The UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning has shared its Fall speakers and lecture poster, designed by Milo Bonacci, to go along with our Get Lectured roundup for the new semester.

The upcoming lecturers for the term include Danny Martin and Jamie Timoteo (October 16); Andrea Dietz, Jessica Garcia Fritz, and Palmyra Gerakt (October 18); Lori Brown (October 25); Julie Emslie and Patrick Schloss (October 30); James Shields (November 01); Brittany Uting and Daniel Jacobs of HOME-OFFICE (November 08); the Indian practice A. Mridul (November 15); artist Vivian Beer (November 20); Rebecca Sanders and Bob Schneider (December 04).

Lecture poster design by Milo Bonacci, courtesy of UW–Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning

Vivian Beer will be hosting a special technical workshop and dialogue about public art on October 10 and October 11 respectively as part of the school's Making Public Art series.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and...

Get Lectured: Tulane University, Fall '24

2024-10-03T19:26:00-04:00

With the new semester in full swing, here’s a look at what's in store on the campus of our Archinect Partner School Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans this Fall.

The slate of upcoming lecturers includes Carmen Trudell (October 7); Pankaj Vir Gupta (October 14); and Sara Bronin (October 28).

A pair of Teaching Fellows' Research Dialogues will take place on November 11. The interdisciplinary Desired Gulf Futures Symposium will also be held from November 1–2nd.

To discover even more upcoming events at the Tulane SoA, check out our recent Fall 2024 highlight for the school.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Archtober 2024: Check out these Buildings of the Day with architect-led tours in NYC next month

2024-09-25T11:34:00-04:00

Archtober is back for its 13th edition in New York City. The month-long event, organized each year by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with partner organizations, includes the always-popular Building of the Day spotlight, offering architects a unique close-up inspection of superlative new projects in the region with tours led by architects and other design professionals.

You can view the complete list of this year's sites below and use the Archtober Map to New York as your handy mobile guide.

Domino Sugar Refinery by Practice for Architecture (PAU). Photo by Max Touhey

Wednesday, October 2: 520 Fifth Avenue
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)

Thursday, October 3: Sportime Randall’s Island/John McEnroe Tennis Academy
Architect: Ricardo Zurita Architecture and Planning P.C.

Friday, October 4: Inwood Library
Architect: Andrew Berman Architect

Saturday, October 5: Bronx River Greenway/Starlight Park
Architect: NV5

Sunday, October 6: Brick House
Architect: Philip Johnson; Restorati...

Tulane School of Architecture's Fall events feature Sarah Bronin, the What Matter's Here.?! exhibition, and symposia exploring the Gulf Coast

2024-09-24T15:23:00-04:00

The Fall semester is in full swing, and as part of our ongoing event highlight at Archinect Partner Schools, we’re taking a look today at what’s in store for the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans

Carmen Trudell of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Cal Poly SLO will visit campus on October 7th for a special invited lecture in the university’s Woldenburg Art Center, followed by the daylong symposium 'Green Infrastructure, Food Systems, and Building Climate Resilience in New Orleans' on October 10th.

The immersive exhibition What Matter's Here.?!, centering on material legacies across the Gulf Coast, just opened in the School of Architecture's Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design and will be on display until May next year.

What Matter's Here.?! Image courtesy Tulane School of Architecture

Another lecture presentation featuring Pankaj Vir Gupta of the University of Virginia will follow on October 14th.

Don't miss the school's Landscape ...

Mabel O. Wilson to deliver 74th A. W. Mellon Lecture in the Fine Arts this spring

2024-09-23T11:32:00-04:00

Mabel O. Wilson, the celebrated multivariate writer and architect, has been announced to deliver the 74th A. W. Mellon Lecture in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington, D.C. The four-part series is being presented under the theme 'America’s Architecture of Freedom and Unfreedom,' which presages Wilson’s forthcoming book on slavery’s role in shaping U.S. civic architecture.

"Wilson’s groundbreaking research on our nation’s architecture, including that which surrounds the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, encourages us to relearn and reconstruct our lived environments, providing new insights and reckonings," Steven Nelson, the dean of the Center, said, speaking to the discoveries latent within her work.

The lectures will take place every Sunday from March 9th to March 30th, 2025.

Get Lectured: Washington University in St. Louis, Fall '24

2024-09-20T19:30:00-04:00

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has new shared speakers and events information for the Fall semester to go with our Get Lectured look at what’s in store in the 2024-25 academic year.

On September 13, Eric P. Mumford and Michael E. Willis held a Q&A to discuss their curation of the recent Kemper Art Museum exhibition 'Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s', which looked at the city's influence on postwar Modernism.

Events continue this week with Stacy Lynn Waddell on September 20, followed by MIT’s Rafi Segal on September 30. His lecture is followed by Elisa Silva (October 18); Toni L. Griffin (October 25); Crystal Z. Campbell (October 26); Josh Azzarella (October 28); Josephine Halvorson (November 7); and the French 2D co-founders Anda and Jenny French (November 18).

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

MIT’s MSRED Program: Shaping the Future of Real Estate with an Inclusive, Multidisciplinary Approach

2024-09-17T12:20:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by MIT Center for Real Estate

The MIT Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) offers an unparalleled education in real estate practice. Our groundbreaking MSRED degree presents a program that is rigorous, concentrated, multidisciplinary, and geared toward direct application.

Image courtesy of MIT CRE.

Candidates for the MSRED degree often come to MIT with several years of experience within the built environment. The program offers students a chance to sharpen their skills by working with other professionals of exceptional promise. Building partnerships that will last long after graduation, MSRED students learn team building in an international context, applying research to real-world problems in a disciplined and intellectual framework.

If you would like to learn more about the MSRED Program at MIT, consider participating in one of our upcoming information sessions.

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Kansas State's College of Architecture, Planning and Design Fall events feature Guy Nordenson, Laurie Olin, and Jenny Myers

2024-09-16T14:48:00-04:00

The Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning & Design has shared their plans for the 2024 Fall semester as part of our ongoing event highlight at Archinect Partner Schools.

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the college’s Ekdahl Lecture Series. K-State shares: “The Ekdahl Lecture Series, named in honor of the distinguished architect Oscar S. Ekdahl, continues to serve as a forum for students, professionals, and the public to explore innovative ideas that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”

The schedule begins with an October 23rd twin bill. Landscape architect Laurie Olin will speak first at 10:00 am, followed later that day by remarks from RIOS design director Jenny Myers at 4:30 pm. Guy Nordenson’s lecture on climate adaptation will follow the next day (October 24th) at 10:30 am, followed by a panel discussion on the future of the profession and reception at 4:30 pm.

Guy Nordenson. Related interview on Archinect: A Conversation with Guy Nor...

Get Lectured: Pratt Institute, Fall '24

2024-09-16T08:19:00-04:00

The Pratt School of Architecture has shared its public lecture information as part of our Fall 2024 Get Lectured look at what’s in store for the new academic year.

The action begins with a panel discussion on the life and work of pioneering architect Debora Reiser on September 12th, followed by another concerning the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on September 18.

Another conversation with Lydia Kallipoliti on September 19th on 'Our Dirty Footprint' precedes the start of Climate Week NYC, which ends in the September 30 conversation 'Design Advocated' featuring Michael K. Chen and five other practitioners. Alejandro Echeverri presents a lecture on equitable design efforts in his hometown of Medellín on October 10. Following that, a conversation on the intersection of artificial intelligence and Indigenous design between Dr. Harriet Harriss and Vicki Weiner takes place on October 29.

Next, a lecture from Keller Easterling will be presented by the Master of Landscape Arc...

Get Lectured: UCLA, Fall '24

2024-09-13T14:35:00-04:00

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has shared its public speakers and events information for the new academic term as part of our Get Lectured roundup of academic events in the 2024-25 school year.

It all begins with the book launch event for Alfredo Thiermann’s Radio-Activities on October 10, followed by a lecture from Lisa Iwamoto on October 17. The rest of the month includes a lecture from MIT’s Skylar Tibbets (October 24) and a talk featuring Ferda Kolatan’s presentation of his book Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City (October 28).

Marion Weiss begins November with a lecture on November 18, followed by lectures from Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu (November 25) and Takaharu Tezuka (December 2).

Here are the individual posters in full size:

Lecture poster design by Alyssa Tohyama. Courtesy of UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

Lecture poster design by Alyssa Tohyama. Courtesy of UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design....

SCI-Arc’s Fall events lineup features Winy Maas, Sarah Whiting, and Liam Young’s ‘Views from Planet City’

2024-09-12T18:47:00-04:00

The Southern California Institute of Architecture has started classes for the Fall semester and is sharing with us their schedule of events and lectures as part of our ongoing event highlight at Archinect Partner Schools.

This Friday, September 13th, will see the first opening of Views of Planet City, featuring the sci-fi designs of SCI-Arc’s graduate Fiction and Entertainment program director Liam Young. A separate opening at the Pacific Design Center follows on September 14th. (Our preview of the exhibition can be found here.)

Liam Young. Image credit: Liam Young

Next up, a pair of lectures from Luigi Alberto Cippini (October 2nd) and Harvard GSD dean Sarah M. Whiting (October 9th). Following those will be the October 25th book launch for author Ferda Kolatan’s new title Misfits & Hybrids Architectural Artifacts for the 21st Century City. The month ends with a lecture from Fiona Connor on October 30th.

November begins with the book launch event for 100 Women: Architects in Practic...

Inside the creation and demise of the Temple of Together at Burning Man 2024

2024-09-11T07:00:00-04:00

With Burning Man 2024 concluded, organizers have shared imagery depicting the building, use, and ultimate demise of the event’s main temple. Designed by Caroline “Glitter Kitty” Ghosn, the Temple of Together was inspired by Lebanese Khaizaran chairs and the artist’s own decades-long battle with multi-generational trauma and illness.

Image credit: Rand Larson

The design of the temple seeks to portray “the light that emerges when we come together with all parts of ourselves and with the oneness we share with all living things.” The leading motif of the temple is the representation of two hands coming together in prayer, symbolizing a common gesture of unity, humility, and respect to almost all spiritual traditions.

Image credit: Rand Larson

The gesture of unity is depicted literally by the two hands creating the temple’s entrance archway, but also in a more abstract sense through neo-Gothic pointed arches repeated throughout the design, ...