The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has just unveiled the annual shortlist of new projects for this year's return to an in-person competition.   Competing under the theme of Together, the 420 total projects will vie for the live-judged festival’s 43 category prizes and culminating... View full entry

Two months after being named the designer of the prestigious annual MPavilion commission in Melbourne, Australia, Thailand-based practice all(zone) has revealed an experimental concept featuring a mixture of materials and forms they claim are previously unseen in the country's architectural... View full entry

This post is brought to you by YACademy The arrival of spring coincides once again with the launch of in-person and online courses by YACademy, the school founded by YAC through collaboration with some of the most prestigious names in contemporary architecture. Its fifth edition offers a unique... View full entry

Architect, real estate developer, educator, and former NOMA national president Kimberly Dowdell has been elected as AIA’s 2023 First VP/2024 President-elect. She will be the 100th President of AIA and the first Black woman to sit in the role. Dowdell is joined by Britt Lindberg who was elected... View full entry

Renowned Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been formally presented with the 2022 Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) Royal Gold Medal in a virtual ceremony hosted by the organization and President Simon Allford. Featuring video tributes from Frank Gehry, Álvaro Siza, and Benedetta Tagliabue... View full entry

This post is brought to you by YACademy Architecture is a privileged tool of those brands characterized by an elevated positioning that, beyond the quality of their own products, needs to feed an imaginary of prestige, style, and refinement. From the showrooms to the stores, fashion needs... View full entry

ICYMI, Sean Joyner debunked Architecture’s Mythological Work Culture. Given the clear "disconnect between the traditional professional ethos and the advent of the current zeitgeist" he argues "It is time to value people over projects, individuals over industry, compassion over concept." Not... View full entry

Theaster Gates' Serpentine Pavilion has been revealed in London's Kensington Gardens, showcasing his vision for a Black Chapel that advances the fair's evangelizing mission to be an incubator for community building, civic culture, and public engagement.  In a circular form evoking... View full entry

This post is brought to you by YACademy It was 2019 when, within the workshop of YACademy’s course in  Architecture for Landscape, a group of international students developed the project of a bivouac for the Brédy family. Today, thanks to that experience, in the mountains of Aosta... View full entry

The theme and title of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale have been announced as The Laboratory of the Future, vetting a decolonized vision of Africa as a petri dish for the hopes of the broader world to come. As the Biennale’s curator, architect and academic Lesley Lokko, explains... View full entry

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been announced as the surprise headline speaker on Day 3 of this year’s A’22 Conference in Chicago.  Obama will join for a moderated conversation about a yet-unnamed topic at the close of the conference’s Friday session on June 24th at the... View full entry

MVRDV’s latest public installation is underway as Rotterdam Rooftop Walk officially commenced on Thursday, Ascension Day, in the nation’s second-largest city.  Image © Ossip van Duivenbode/MVRDV The installation is conceived of as the studio’s decades-long experimentation with... View full entry

This post is brought to you by YACademy Pandemic, economic crisis, migration, and climate change: every area - from the periphery of our metropolis to the most remote tropical village - can now be defined as an “emergency context”. The United Nations - already before the pandemic cycle... View full entry

Innovative Thai practice all(zone) has been named the winner of Australia’s coveted annual MPavilion commission, now in its ninth iteration coming out of a two-year pandemic hiatus. The Bangkok-based studio will reveal its design for Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens site in July in advance of... View full entry

This post is brought to you by YACademy From Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on the landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and landscape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is... View full entry