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Rosalie Genevro steps down as The Arch League's Executive Director after 37 years

2022-09-23T14:35:00-04:00

A change has come to one of the industry’s oldest professional associations after The Architectural League of New York's Executive Director Rosalie Genevro announced on September 22 that she will be stepping down from the organization after more than 37 years in her post.

Genevro says she will depart next year to focus on a slate of issues connected to climate change and the construction industry. Since beginning her tenure in 1985, the League has vastly expanded its influential program to account for the onset of the digital age and radical changes in the broader currents of architecture as a professional enterprise, social endeavor, and field of academic study.

Among the initiatives she is credited with developing are the League’s award-winning Urban Omnibus publication, the Emerging Voices and Prize for Young Architects + Designers competitions, the ...

RIBA announces curatorial split with V&A Museum after nearly 20 years

2022-06-10T09:00:00-04:00

Citing a shift in both institutions’ “strategic priorities”, RIBA has announced the conclusion of its popular 20-year exhibition partnership with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in a joint statement.

The partnership will come to an end in 2027 after a collaboration that began officially in 2004. The V&A says it's now building a curatorial team to oversee the revamping of its extensive architecture collection and exhibition offerings. Meanwhile, RIBA's own 4 million-piece collection will be rehoused as part of the House of Architecture initiative included in the revitalization of 66 Portland Place authored by Benedetti Architects.

RIBA presided Simon Allford shared that the organization will now focus on developing "new ways to bring together and present the institute's own outstanding but currently dispersed collection to the public and to the architectural profession." RIBA has p...

Frank Gehry is once again exhibiting new sculptures at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles

2021-07-08T17:43:00-04:00

A new examination of Frank Gehry’s sculptural work is swimming into Los Angeles this summer.

Spinning Tales will showcase new and old pieces from the architect at the Gagosian Gallery. Gehry has been very active in the art world recently, using this latest show to piggyback off of the much-anticipated opening of his new LUMA Tower in Arles this past week.

The 92-year-old Gehry has been a frequent exhibitor at the gallery’s Beverly Hills outpost with eight shows since 1999.

Spinning Tales, 2021, installation view. © Frank Gehry. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy of Gagosian

The exhibition combines new works from the Canadian-American architect with a trio of sculptures that trace their beginnings to a 1980s commission Gehry received from the Formica Corporation. Gehry had at the time been tasked with using a plastic laminate called ColorCore. After shattering a piece of ColorCore in his workshop, an allusion became clear: Gehry eventually glued the scale-like shards together over wire arm...

Academy of Motion Pictures releases new construction photos of Renzo Piano-designed museum

2020-04-17T19:48:00-04:00

Despite many construction projects being put on hold across the U.S., some regions, including Los Angeles, have continued on with business as usual. Word of the LACMA demolition came to light during the second week of April, while a neighboring project is also making progress. In the weeks since Archinect's last coverage of Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, new photos and exhibition renders have been released.

With the museum set to open in December 2020, museum director Bill Kramer shares in a press statement that the programs and exhibitions featured will "illuminate the complex and fascinating world of cinema—its art, technology, artists, history, and social impact—through a variety of diverse and engaging voices."

Image by wHY architecture © Academy Museum Foundation

Image by Joshua White JWPictures © Academy Museum Foundation

Kramer also addresses the museum's construction progress during a global pandemic. "We are keenly aware that we’re working towards the openin...

AIA Los Angeles announces call for faculty exhibition design proposals for 2020 2x8: DOMUM Competition

2020-01-10T14:00:00-05:00

This news post is brought to you by AIA Los Angeles

*Competition Update: The open call for faculty submissions has been extended to February 17, 2020

AIA Los Angeles is seeking local faculty to design and build this year’s exhibition for the annual 2x8 student competition. The theme “DOMUM” centers on the urgency of California’s housing crisis. The exhibit will curate ideas from schools of architecture, allowing students the opportunity to present their work to a professional jury as well as the AEC industry. The exhibition provides visibility to students and showcases their work, as well as the pedagogy of their institutions, to the greater architectural community.

2x8:Exchange (2019). Image © Kirill Volchinskiy courtesy of AIA|LA 2x8

BACKGROUND: 2x8 is an annual exhibition & scholarship program showcasing exemplary student work from architecture & design institutions throughout California. Celebrating the state’s unequaled diversity in pedagogical directions, each of the participati...

The Assembly returns to LA's A+D Museum next week

2019-08-28T14:09:00-04:00

The assembly returns this fall at A+D on September 7, 2019 from 7:00-10:30pm. The recurring event is an unveiling of A+D’s new rotation of exhibitions. This approach to hosting simultaneous exhibition openings is an expression of our mission to join together a diverse community in celebration of different disciplines of design and points of view. Join us on September 7th in celebration of four new exhibitions opening with beer, candy, and music.

The fall 2019 assembly opens four exhibits. This assembly will welcome 000 Magazine into the museum with Proof & Prototype in The Alcove Gallery. Proof & Prototype highlights the meticulous work it takes to create a quarterly publication focused on serving the reader above all else, through an expansive case study of 000 Magazine. This exhibition runs through 11.24.19.

The A+D’s newest exhibition space, The Portal, will be home to Virtual Bauhaus, an exhibition on the German school of art and design using the medium of virtual realit...

Early highlight contributors announced for 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial

2019-03-14T15:25:00-04:00

The curators for the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial have announced early highlight contributors who will create newly commissioned projects and other materials for the exhibition.

The initial list is comprised of 51 practices and practitioners from 19 countries. It includes architects, artists, collectives, and researchers, whose work touches on the biennial's four curatorial focus areas: land, memory, rights, and civic participation.

Among the designers tasked with exploring the theme of land is Chicago-based architect Theaster Gates, who will challenge the concept of land as property and commodity. Also participating will be Wolff Architects, a design studio in South Africa that works at the nexus of design, advocacy, research and documentation, as well as Territorial Agency, Caroline Caycedo, and Joar Nango.

The design collaborative MASS Design Group, best known for their community-driven approaches, will look at sites of memory. Other contributors whose projects will dive in...

Vaults, Models & Objects; Assembly returns to A+D Museum

2019-02-19T11:06:00-05:00

Saturday, March 2, 2019 from 6:30-10pm the A+D Museum will unveil its next rotation of The Assembly. The Assembly is the museum's new tradition; it is a gathering. This approach to exhibition openings is an expression of the museum's mission to join together a diverse group in celebration of different disciplines of design and points of view. In this outing the museum will be celebrating 4 new exhibits being opened to the public.

The main Gallery will feature Translucent Vaults, the A+D Museum’s exploration of digital access to cultural institutions and art. The exhibition, curated by the A+D, serves to ask what issues, benefits, and possible futures arise with the shift from physical to digital access.

This marks the second outing of Rios Clementi Hale’s Alley Fellowship, a partnership with A+D Museum which aims to support cross-disciplinary emerging artists. Sarah Jones, this round’s Alley Fellow, presents Tangle, an immersive simultaneously lush and ordered environment where yo...

The Chicago Architecture Biennial announces Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares as co-curators of the 2019 Biennial

2018-05-15T13:10:00-04:00

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced that curator and educator Sepake Angiama, and architect and urbanist Paulo Tavares will be joining the curatorial team of the 2019 Biennial, taking place next year. The co-curators will be working with the visionary curator and writer Yesomi Umolu, who was selected as the Artistic Director of the city's third biennial back in March.

Angiama, who recently served as Head of Education for Documenta 14, has devised education programs for a number of leading international institutions, including Tate Modern & Hayward Gallery, London. Her work centers around discursive practices, the social framework, and how we shape and form our experiences in understanding the world. As a recent fellow at basis voor actuele kunst, she conducted a year-long research into intersectional feminism and science fiction.

Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares' work is concerned with the relations between conflict and space as they intersect within the multi-scalar ar...

The Open Workshop's new exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts asks how we can live together

2018-04-16T15:11:00-04:00

New Investigations in Collective Form, an exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, presents a series of design experiments by The Open Workshop, a Bay Area design research office founded by architect and urban designer Neeraj Bhatia.

The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2018. (Exhibition Poster)Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Image by: The Open Workshop.

Inspired by Fumihiko Maki’s seminal text Investigations in Collective Form, the exhibition tests how architecture can empower the diverse voices that make up the public realm and examines how collectivity can be formed today. The exhibition will feature models and drawings showcasing the office’s past projects and the concepts and theoretical explorations that guided them.

The Open Workshop, Field of Representation, 2018. Installation view,The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2018. Courtesy Yerba Buena Cen...

Chief curators for the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale are announced

2017-12-19T15:46:00-05:00

After a yearlong search and an open Call for Curator, the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale has finally selected a winning proposal for the upcoming event. The jury has picked the curatorial team comprised of Interrobang founder, Maria Smith; Canadian designer educator and Interrobang Associate, Matthew Dalziel; British critic and think tank director, Phineas Harper; and Norwegian urban researcher and artist, Cecilie Sachs Olsen.

Chosen from 71 submissions and entitled "Common Futures," the theme questions the unbridled growth and rapid pace of industrialization underwent by societies throughout the 20th century. The proposal posits instead the alternative concept of Degrowth, an economic ideology that questions infinite economic growth as the one-way future for the whole of humanity.

"With this concept, the Triennale could be a platform to establish an understanding of a potential architecture of degrowth: defining it, questioning it and challenging both architects, architecture c...

7th edition of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture opens tomorrow in Nantou Old Town

2017-12-14T12:52:00-05:00

Currently the only biennial exhibition in the world to be based exclusively on the set themes of Urbanism and Urbanization, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen will open for its 7th edition tomorrow, Dec 15th. Initiated in 2005 by the Shenzhen Municipal Government and joined by neighboring Hong-Kong in 2007, the co-organized biennale addresses both the material aspects of urban development as well as the many social aspects of city living in the context of rapid growth.

Curated by Hou Hanrou and the founding partners of URBANUS, Liu Xiaodu and Meng Yan, the exhibition's theme this year is “Cities, Grow in Difference." With more than 200 exhibitors including MVRDV, the French artist Pierre Huyghes, the Dutch artist Rob Voerman and the Chinese architect John Lin, participants will explore the urban concept of “coexistence” and its role in the future development of urban villages and their place among the swiftly developing cities of China.

Held in Nantou Old To...

Get Lectured: University of Texas at Austin, Spring '17

2017-01-25T13:55:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Winter and Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

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

The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture has a fresh lineup of internationally recognized speakers for Spring '17, including Nader Tehrani, Amale Andraos, Mónica Rivera, Kunlé Adeyemi, and Mason White. Exhibitions will showcase innovative research on the rapid rise of urbanism in China from UT Austin Associate Professor Ming Zhang as well as a 50-year retrospective by Black + Vernooy Principal and UT Austin Professor Sinclair Black.

LECTURES
Lectures begin at 5:00pm unless o...

Can 1970s sustainability practices enhance Canada's 2017 architecture?

2017-01-03T15:45:00-05:00

Did architects have sustainability figured out in the 1970s, and can the lessons they learned help contemporary architects design for the challenges of climate change? In an attempt to answer this question, Canada is taking a closer look at its previously built sustainable architecture during the energy crisis in the 1970s in the form of two museum exhibitions. The Globe and Mail explains that:

The 1970s has much to teach us as we face the reality of climate change and the changes that it will bring about. That insight drives two thoughtful museum shows up this winter, the PEI exhibition [curated by Dalhousie University professor Steven Mannell] and "It's All Happening So Fast" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

For the latest on climate-change oriented architecture:

Show and Tell: MoMA's chief curator of architecture and design, Martino Stierli, on One-to-One #38

2016-09-19T17:04:00-04:00

Martino Stierli took over as MoMA's chief curator of architecture and design in 2015, when the museum was already undergoing major changes. Diller Scofidio + Renfro's redesign was underway, and the architecture and design galleries faced something of an uncertain future in the expanded museum layout. On the podcast, Stierli dispels the rumors that the galleries would be closed permanently, and discusses MoMA's strategies for exhibiting architecture, as well as his plans to diversify the museum's collection.

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The recipients of the 2016 Graham Foundations grants announced

2016-08-10T13:18:00-04:00

The Graham Foundation has announced the winners of their annual grants to organizations. In total, the grants amount to $419,000 and will support 31 projects, ranging from exhibitions to site-specific commissions and publications. The winning projects were selected out of a pool of 230 submissions.

"Operating on a variety of scales, these grants give voice to innovative programs and scholarship, and create new platforms for engagement with architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society," the Graham Foundation states in the press release.

Here are the grantees and their projects:

Anyone Corporation
The Architectural Imagination: US Pavilion, 15th International Architecture Exhibition
Exhibition

the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
Exhibition

California State University Long Beach—University Museum
Robert Irwin: Site Determined
Exhibition

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City, 1966-2017
Exhibition

Istanbul Foundation for ...

Reinhold Martin hosts contentious 'House Housing' panel, provoking discussion on inequality, real estate and architecture

2016-07-14T17:16:00-04:00

"House Housing; An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate", a globally touring exhibit, has finally arrived in its place of conception, New York City. After first appearing at the 2014 Venice Biennale, “House Housing” has popped up in Chicago, Berlin and Los Angeles. The exhibit opened this past Tuesday, July 12 at the AIA New York Center for Architecture.

Researched and organized by Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, the opening was accompanied by a panel discussion moderated by Reinhold Martin, Director of the Buell Center. Martin was joined by Patrice Derrington, Director of the Real Estate Development Program at Columbia, GSAPP and Lissa So, Founding Partner at Marvel Architects.

The exhibit is quite timely, given the frequency with which New York’s housing stock is embroiled in tension between real estate, architecture, private capital and the demand for more affordable housing. If anything, the exhibit and panel disc...

Overwhelmed by Venice Biennale events? Try these suggestions for starters

2016-05-27T15:47:00-04:00

Without a doubt, there will be plenty to see in and around the Venice Biennale. Planning on attending and not so sure where to start? For the next few months, Bustler will share our recommendations of national exhibition pavilions and related events that you shouldn't miss. Have a look at our first list that you can use as a starting point for your visit(s). Happy Biennale-ing!

Don't miss out on an exhibition featuring Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, a nearby Zaha Hadid retrospective, and the national pavilions from Great Britain, the Republic of Korea, The Philippines, and more.

You can also keep track of Archinect's ongoing Venice Biennale coverage in Features and News.

Joseph Weishaar and the 2016 SEED Awardees are among this week's winners

2016-02-01T18:01:00-05:00

At the start of every week, we highlight some of the most recent news in competition-winning projects, commissions, awards, shortlists, and events on Bustler from the previous week that are worth checking out.

Here's recap #93 for Jan. 25-29, 2016:

“Unpacking the Cube” portrays the conceptual roots of Steven Holl, Leong Leong, and Levenbetts

CHAMBER gallery in New York asked Steven Holl Architects, Leong Leong, and Levenbetts — who are each at different points in their professional careers — to dig deep into the conceptual roots of their practices and manifest those concepts into physical objects, which are currently on exhibition.

25-year-old architect and veteran sculptor win WWI Memorial competition in D.C.

The WWICC launched a two-stage design competition to search for the most suitable design for the memorial, which would commemorate the more than 116,000 American men and women who died during the Great War. 25-year-old architect Joseph Weishaar in collaboration with veteran sculpt...

The New York Times reviews MoMA exhibit, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980

2015-05-01T11:12:00-04:00

The exhibition recalls an earlier era when architects there believed that social challenges should be tackled by design, that humane societies deserved beautiful new forms, and progressive development put faith in art, nature and the resilience of ordinary people.

Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times wrote a review on the recent MoMA exhibit, ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’. The exhibit highlights the work of Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Eladio Dieste, Rogelio Salmona and others who helped define Latin American modern architecture. On display are photographs, videos, drawings, blueprints and models. Some models shown in Kimmelman's article feature the work of University of Miami students who collaborated with MoMA on this exhibit.

NY exhibitions reflect on Latin American midcentury architecture + design

2015-03-30T16:01:00-04:00

Until the advent of cable television and then the Internet, Latin Americans, creators and consumers alike, were often more aware of trends in Europe and the United States than in nations neighboring theirs: Whatever similarities in style that emerged regionally were largely the result of discrete, parallel responses to the challenges of urbanization, poverty and the need to somehow integrate modernity and tradition.

Midcentury architecture and design from the Latin America region seems to be a trend in recent exhibitions in MoMA, MAD, and Americas Society in New York. New York Times writer Larry Rohter compares and contrasts the exhibitions, which shed light on the all-too-familiar tension of integrating globalized innovation with local traditions and techniques that was present throughout Latin American architecture and design.

Experimental architecture history exhibits spaces with smell

2013-10-11T15:42:00-04:00

In conjunction with the symposium, "Test Sites: Experiments in the History of Space", the California College of the Arts (CCA) Architecture Division will stage the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the recent works of artisans and historians who harness scents, essences and fragrances in the reconstruction and preservation of historical spaces — An Olfactory Archive.

Probably the most under-appreciated sense in the experiential toolbox (unless you count proprioception), smell is often maligned by aesthetic criticism as too ephemeral, too fleeting, to substantiate anything meaningful. But what if it opened the nostrils and minds of the sniffers to imagine architectural space in a new way, or represent a place's atmosphere as it once was? An Olfactory Archive: 1100 - 1969, presented by the Architecture Division at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, explores the atmosphere of historical spaces through smell, in an exhibition that displays reconstructed scents authored by perfumers, architects and artists (and others) who have all worked with smell in the recent past.

The work is part of Test SItes: Experiments in the History of Space. A selection of the featured scents is as follows:

curator Aaron Betsky + Herzog and deMeuron: "Rotterdam - Olfactory Object" (2004)
perfumer Christophe Laudemiel: the Straight of Bosp...