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Archinect Outpost and A+D Museum to host book launch for Single-Handedly

2019-06-20T16:23:00-04:00

Join us in celebrating the launch of Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand, the latest book by Nalina Moses published by the Princeton Architectural Press. The event will be held at the A+D Museum, with copies of the book sold at Archinect Outpost, on Saturday, June 29th, from 6-7pm. Our address is 900 East 4th Street, Los Angeles CA 90029.

The panel will start at 6, and will feature book contributors Bryan Cantley, Rick Gooding, Dwayne Oyler, Frank Escher and Nalina Moses. The event is hosted by Princeton Architectural Press, the A+D Museum, Archinect and Blick Art Materials, which will be providing gift bags for guests.

The book can be preordered here for pickup at the event or shipping immediately after the event. Please go here to RSVP for the event.

Illustration by Rick Gooding.

"Single-Handedly is a curated selection of contemporary architectural illustrations by Nalina Moses, an architect and writer who lives and works in New York City. After being trained to ...

A collective of architects has started a petition requesting equal recognition of Doriana Fuksas, wife and partner of Massimiliano Fuksas

2018-12-17T19:42:00-05:00

A number of architects are seeking justice for the exclusion of Doriana Fuksas in the recent recognition given to her husband and business partner at Studio Fuksas, Massimiliano Fuksas, for a Lifetime Achievement Award from INARCH Istituto Nazionale di Architettura.

The initiative has been spearheaded by architects Louise Braverman, Caroline James and Francesca Perani on behalf of Italian activistsRebelArchitette and VOW Architects. The petition currently has over 450 supporters, including Massimiliano Fuksas, Denise Scott Brown, Rem Koolhaas, Paola Antonelli, Beatriz Colomina, Gisue Hariri, Toshiko Mori and Bjarke Ingels.

The petition can be viewed and signed here: bitly.com/DorianaFuksas

Studio Fuksas designs the New Rome/EUR Convention Centre, the largest building built in Rome in over 50 years

2017-03-21T12:19:00-04:00

EUR, a business district in Rome developed in the 1930’s under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, is filled with the heroic modernism, otherwise known as Rationalism, of the Fascist era. Now the area will host a new building designed to echo the stark geometry of its context. The €239 million New Rome/EUR Convention Centre, which is designed by Studio Fuksas, is the largest building built in the Eternal City in over 50 years, and is expected to bring in €300-400 million per year to the city.

Within the main, large rectangular structure, “The Cloud” comprises an organic shape that will contain an auditorium. Adjacent to the main space is “The Blade”, a tall tower housing a new hotel.

From the architects:

Located south of the city’s core, in the business district of EUR, the complex follows the simple orthogonal lines of the surrounding 1930s rationalist architecture.

The spaces surrounding the centre will serve as two public squares. Integral to the new complex and the neighbourhood,...