The spring semester is unfolding, and we are continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured series, today highlighting the USC School of Architecture’s list of guest lecturers and presenters for their Spring 2023 public programs. Events began on January 23 with a visit from AGENCY’s Ersela... View full entry
What struck me when I went back to reread the book is how deliberately it works to collapse the distance, and therefore the distinction, between enthusiasm and skepticism, and ultimately between documentation and critique. Above all, “Learning from Las Vegas” argues for a curious and open-minded anti-utopianism, for understanding cities as they are rather than how planners wish they might be—and then using that knowledge, systematically and patiently won, as the basis for new architecture. — The New Yorker
Yale’s new visiting critic Christopher Hawthorne considers the lasting inspirational qualities and history of Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, and Robert Venturi's seminal 1972 text, whose origins can be traced to a studio the young newlyweds taught in New Haven in the fall of 1968. Hawthrone... View full entry
An exhibition at The Cooper Union examining Vkhutemas has been postponed by the institution amidst criticisms relating to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Vkhutemas was a Soviet art and technical school that existed from 1920 to 1930. It was a pioneer in the field of art and design education in... View full entry
Continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured series, we highlight Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD) list of guest lecturers and presenters for their Spring 2023 public programs. The lectures kick off Tuesday, January 31, with a visit from Landprocess founder Kotchakorn... View full entry
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The University of Texas at Austin's Spring lineup of public events and lectures is kicking off our 2023 Get Lectured series with visits from speakers who will "address contemporary topics like housing, social equity, and the impact of technology on our fields." On January 18, the school... View full entry
The art and design lineup for this year’s Coachella festival has been announced ahead of the two-week event, which takes place in the modernism-rich Southern California hotspot from April 13th to the 23rd. This year’s festival will include installations from Maggie West, Kumkum Fernando... View full entry
The popular Gingerbread City holiday exhibition has returned to London’s Museum of Architecture featuring some tasty designs from top firms organized into five “mini-cities” master-planned for the second consecutive year by Madeleine Kessler Architecture. Each of the small cities... View full entry
The 2022 MPavilion has officially opened in Melbourne, Australia. Designed by Thailand-based practice all(zone), the scheme is defined by an “ingenious canopy” comprising three fabric, tensile layers. The outermost layer of the pavilion’s canopy is built from fishing nets, creating what the... View full entry
Zaha Hadid Architects has published details of its proposed master plan for the Odesa Expo 2030 bid. In seeking to secure the Expo 2030 contract for the southern Ukrainian city, the design team has presented a scheme composed of “demountable” and “redeployable” pavilions after the event... View full entry
Influential Cleveland-based nonprofit gallery SPACES has been selected by the State Department to organize the U.S. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported recently. Under the curatorial theme of “Everlasting Plastics,” the group has said they will... View full entry
Olafur Eliasson has completed a site-specific piece of public artwork in a northern-Qatari desert. Titled Shadows travelling on the sea of the day, the Icelandic-Danish artist’s work is inspired by the “interplay of human perception and the natural world.” Eliasson’s piece comprises twenty... View full entry
MoMA’s acquisition of games is the responsibility of the Architecture and Design Department, which is focused on objects that are celebrated for their function. Paul Galloway, who has served as the point person for the museum’s video game acquisition efforts, says these multimedia objects are a natural fit for the most omnivorous section of the museum. — arstechnica
Installation view © 2022 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Emile Askey The show is open now and runs until July of next year in MoMA's first-floor gallery. Galloway and his co-organizers Paola Antonelli, Anna Burckhardt, and Amanda Forment say their department collects along four central... View full entry
“In the 70s and 80s, my ideas were ignored. I was antagonistic to postmodernism [...] and I paid a price.” — The Guardian
The 84-year-old Habitat 67 mastermind sat down with Rowan Moore to discuss his career and new memoir If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture. Among other topics, he said he had “no idea” that his 2011 Marina Bay Sands design would become “an instant icon” and that the political... View full entry
For Archinect's latest Fall '22 Get Lectured series installment, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP) shares its upcoming events. In September, the school welcomed lectures from the 2021 Marcus Prize winners Ensamble... View full entry
