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OMA takes exhibition design to new levels at the reopened Denver Art Museum

2021-10-26T17:06:00-04:00

As part of the newly reopened Denver Art Museum renovation project, OMA has transformed the design galleries of the iconic Martin Building in order to better display, exhibit, and communicate the museum’s robust holdings in architecture and design.

The remade space features two new galleries and an educational studio named for designer and art collector Ellen Bruss.

Photography by James Florio

OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu described the opportunity to work within Ponti’s seminal work as “an exciting exercise,” offering his opinion that “Much like his design philosophy, the role of design seems to grow and diversify exponentially. A direct consequence of design ubiquity is accessibility and literacy, and we wanted the galleries to react to these changes.”

Photography by James Florio

“The three spaces pose new ways of seeing as well as interacting with objects and materials,” he continued. “They present different spatial and programmatic identities but work collectively as a platform for s...

RIBA pairs with Google Arts & Culture to expand its audience with a slate of online exhibitions

2021-05-26T12:39:00-04:00

RIBA is partnering with Google Arts & Culture to launch an innovative new online exhibition of curated stories using items and artifacts culled from its collection in order to highlight the 187-year-old organization's influence on the field.

The announcement was made this week and culminated in the publication of a web platform that will play host to a series of small exhibitions that educate viewers on a slate of different architectural stories: ranging from the construction of Central Park to the civic architecture shaping modern Ghana in a first for any design institution in the UK.

Design for a metropolitan cathedral by architect Etienne-Louis Boulee, 1782. Credit: RIBA Collections.

The platform’s 15 stories showcase a variety of items from its collective including photographs, manuscripts, interviews, and drawings by major figures such as Étienne-Louis Boullée and Sir Charles Barry. Viewers can immerse themselves in an architectural tour of Venice or indulge in a history of the ...

Design Museum Everywhere launches new virtual exhibit addressing equity in design

2020-10-14T11:54:00-04:00

The Design Museum has launched a new virtual exhibition, We Design: People. Practice. Progress. to highlight the lack of racial and gender diversity in the design field. We Design tells stories about designers of different ages, genders, backgrounds, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and abilities through stories, oral histories, videos, and photos.

Featured designers. From left to right: Ade Hassan, Clint Ramos, Debra Latour, Elyse Ayoung, Fady Saad, Gabrielle Bullock, Janine Kwoh, Jeff Staple, Liz Ogbu, Nestor Castaneda, Phil Freelon, Phil Kongtcheu, Rica Elysse, Sabrina Dorsainvil, Taniya Nayak. Image courtesy of Design Museum Everywhere.

Examples of each subject's work will also be showcased accompanying insights to their unique personal lives and career paths. Moreover, data visualizations and cast studies will be used to creatively communicate the racial inequities in the design industry. Some stats include: 86% of graphic designers are White. 69% of interior designers ...

Knowlton SoA exhibition examines architecture’s role in the Great Lakes Megalopolis

2020-09-09T15:52:00-04:00

A new exhibition at the Knowlton School of Architecture on The Ohio State University campus aims to explore the work of The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition, a fictional public architecture office that takes Lake Erie as its principal client.

Created by Knowlton LeFevre Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture Galen Pardee, the exhibition uses archival models, drawings, documents, and studies to explore "the organizational structure of the Great Lakes Architectural Expedition itself, as well as early attempts by the Expedition’s Lake Erie Board to establish their roles as public advocates and draft the contours of non-human architect-client relationships," according to exhibition text.

"The Expedition’s mission has prompted a fundamental re-thinking of architecture’s role in the Great Lakes Megalopolis—engaging legal and physical terrains with equal dexterity, expanding architectural practice with non-human client structures, and transforming architects into agents for publ...

New book shares the untold work of African American architects from Chicago's South Side

2019-09-30T11:49:00-04:00

Chicago is recognized for its iconic architectural history, however, there are some areas of this beloved architectural haven that have not found a voice until now. Writer and photographer Lee Bey has documented buildings located in Chicago's South Side for several years. With the hopes to expose their architectural and cultural influence within the city Bey showcased these photographs in an exhibition, Southern Exposure, during the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Since then Bey has published the book "Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side"

Recently Bey sat with Iker Gil of, director of MAS Studio to discuss the book and the project's origin. According to Bey he explains "The exhibition and the book grew up together [...] The idea was to not make the book an exhibition book, but to use the exhibition as inspiration and to go beyond the show and showcase more buildings and places, and have the text delve deeply into the South Side’s—and Chicago’s...

Upcoming exhibition highlights the work of MVRDV titled "Architecture Speaks: The Language of MVRDV"

2019-06-24T18:29:00-04:00

MVRDV is known for their interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary architecture and architecture's impact on urban issues. Designing innovative structures like the Tianjin Binhai Public Library and Glass Farm MVRDV will discuss their firm's design ethos and approach in an upcoming exhibition this July. Founding partner Nathalie de Vries shares in a recent press release the firm's excitement for the exhibition and the opportunity to reflect on their past work. According to de Vries, "...the creation and curation of Architecture Speaks was an opportunity for us to reflect on our work, to define theoretical categories and place projects from our firm's recent trajectory into a larger framework of ideas."

Image © MVRDV

The location of the exhibition will be held in the aut's Adambräu Building, a former brewhouse in Innsbruck, Austria. Architecture Speaks shows examples of MVRDV's design process using four towers which represent the spatial intervention of the following words "stack”, ...