This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, address collaboration, manifestos, architectural media, Adolf Loos, games, female architects of color, public space post-pandemic, bamboo architecture, Syria, and more... Are you hosting a virtual lecture?... View full entry
From Archinect's active community of architecture students and professionals, firms, and schools, we have selected five practices for our latest weekly highlight of architectural employers. Take a look at these openings, and visit Archinect Jobs for more listings. Established architecture firm MGA... View full entry
The University of Southern California School of Architecture has announced the launch of the HLW Project Héroe Research Initiative, an "interdisciplinary task force comprised of architects, consultants, medical experts, contractors, and USC Architecture students and recent graduates that... View full entry
Following advocacy efforts from the African American Student Union (AASU) and AfricaGSD at Harvard University, Harvard GSD Dean Sarah Whiting has unveiled a list of steps the school will take as it works to address institutional failures on issues of anti-racism and racial equality. In the... View full entry
In recent weeks the leaders of the School of architecture at Taliesin have begun to make plans for moving the school to Cosanti, some eight miles to the west of the school's current site. Last week, Archinect spoke with Dan Schweiker, Chair of Governing Board for Taliesin, Chris Lasch... View full entry
With the reopening of Danish Architecture Center last week, Copenhagen welcomed a new art attraction: a 40-meter/130-foot-long tube slide spiraling down four stories inside DAC's boxy, OMA-designed BLOX home. Photo: Kontraframe Envisioned by German-Belgian artist Carsten Höller, famous for... View full entry
MVRDV has completed Villa Stardust, a private home that began as a former commercial building. Inspired by the traditional Moroccan riad, the interior living spaces of the villa are oriented around a central patio space and courtyard. Designed as an outdoor "living room," the... View full entry
But death chambers and many solitary confinement cells — they’re officially called segregation units, not incidentally — are extreme cases. Architects should not contribute their expertise to the most egregious aspects of a system that commits exceptional violence against African-Americans and other minorities.
The least the American Institute of Architects can do now is agree.
— The New York Times
The New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman has penned a column highlighting the moral implications of having architects design solitary confinement and execution facilities. In the article, Kimmelman explores the American Institute of Architect's reluctance to take a positive stand... View full entry
Denmark has opened its new exploratorium and "nature arena" called NATURKRAFT (translated Nature Power) where visitors will experience different aspects of nature and how its physical and aesthetic characteristics will shape the sustainable cities and communities of the future. Designed by... View full entry
After a delayed opening originally scheduled for March 27th, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (maat) has begun its new chapter with a museum-wide architectural intervention designed by New York-based studio SO - IL. Titled Beeline, the project is an ephemeral work that... View full entry
It’s no coincidence that Covid-19 has disproportionately sickened and killed members of demographic groups — people who are black, Indigenous and Latino; who are homeless; who are immigrants — that have been targets of systemic segregation that increased their vulnerability. It’s also not hard to imagine the pandemic, and a person’s relative risk of infection, being used to justify new versions of these discriminatory practices. — NYT Magazine
Kim Tingley, spoke with Joel Sanders, Hansel Bauman, Mabel O. Wilson and other academics and designers about how architecture could adapt to address issues of public health and universal design in a post-COVID-19 world. More about MIXdesign's COVID Case Study here h/t @Justin Garrett Moore, AICP View full entry
As the weeks and months pass, 2020 has proven to be a time of immediate change. The architecture and design industry continues to self-reflect and re-address issues that effect the built and social environment — this goes for design competitions as well. Bustler has curated a list of... View full entry
Michael Maltzan Architects has announced it is leading the design team for a new headquarters facility for the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. The forthcoming headquarters is slated for a site in the city's rapidly gentrifying Westlake neighborhood just outside Downtown Los Angeles, where many... View full entry
Rotterdam/Shanghai-based design studio Just Open Architecture has shared with us "The Book Tower of Warsaw," their recent first-prize winning proposal in the ideas competition Libgen: Towards a new class of evolutionary libraries. The brief asked participants to rethink the typology of the... View full entry
A new initiative focused on leveraging designers' "professional connections and privileges in the name of advancing justice" offers an easy and effective way of reaching professional organizations, leading architecture firms, political entities, and academic institutions via email. Hosted on... View full entry