Milan’s Salone del Mobile has announced dates and theme for this year’s milestone edition of the popular design fair. This 60th Salone will be held from June 7th to the 12th in the Fiera Milano Rho and will look to reestablish itself coming out of a pandemic-tinged two-year period that has... View full entry
February 17 was a night of many firsts for the College of Architecture and Planning, Dean Nan Ellin said. For the first time in two years, students, faculty, and staff gathered in-person for the grand opening of CAP’s latest exhibition at its second floor gallery in the CU Denver Building. Marking its first in-person gathering since the start of the pandemic, CAP is thrilled to showcase the life and work of John R. Henderson, Colorado’s first licensed Black architect. — CU Denver News
The exhibit was curated by College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) Research Assistant Schawn Chi Ming Li and consisted of 300 drawings, audio recordings, and architectural models produced throughout Henderson’s life and career. Henderson, who passed away in 2018, was one of very few Black... View full entry
With the Spring lecture series well underway, architecture schools proceed with an exciting lineup of presentations and public events for the season. The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has reached the halfway mark for its Spring lecture series. Starting in January the school... View full entry
Syracuse University School of Architecture (SoA) shares its Spring 2022 lecture series and event programming. Continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured Series, our aim is to highlight upcoming lectures from architecture schools as well as their graphic design themes for the Spring. Starting... View full entry
Continuing with Archinect's Spring 2022 Get Lectured series, the University of Southern California (USC) Architecture shares its lineup of lectures and events in March and April. The school's "ARCHITECTURE ENGAGED" series features a collection of symposiums, talks... View full entry
A closer look at one of the most innovative approaches to tall building design in the industry went up in the gallery of the Hong Kong Design Institute after “Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism” opened to the public last Wednesday. By utilizing a wide array of various forms of... View full entry
Archinect's ongoing Get Lectured series highlights lecture and event programming at architecture schools while also showcasing the graphic prowess of each institution as they continue to adapt to in-person and virtual academic events. Continuing with the Spring '22 lecture series, we are... View full entry
Architecture schools continue to showcase upcoming lecture and event programming for the 2022 Spring season. For this iteration of Archinect's Get Lectured Spring 2022 focus, Woodbury University School of Architecture has an exciting line-up of guest lecturers. Woodbury explains, "for the past... View full entry
This summer, the Brooklyn Museum will stage a version of the first institutional survey dedicated to the late fashion designer and creative visionary Virgil Abloh. The show, titled “Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech,” will build on an earlier exhibition of the same name that originated at the MCA Chicago in 2019, and then traveled to ICA Boston, the High Museum in Atlanta, and Qatar Museums. — Artnet News
The Brooklyn Museum’s showcase of the exhibit is organized by writer and curator Antwaun Sargent and will be Abloh’s first posthumous retrospective since his passing at the age of 41 in November. Originally a mid-career survey, “Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech,” designed by AMO... View full entry
Continuing with Archinect's coverage of Spring '22 academic lecture programming, Harvard GSD shares details about their Spring series and the inspiration behind their poster graphic designed by Harsh Patel. Recently, Harvard GSD published an interview on their site with the GSD's art director... View full entry
A century-old steel bridge in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam will be partially dismantled this summer to allow a superyacht being built for Jeff Bezos to sail through. — The Observer
The controversial project will make way for Bezos’ new $485 million Oceanco-designed sailing yacht, which is about half the length of the Titanic. Bezos has agreed to pay for the bridge’s removal. The 144-year-old structure narrowly survived heavy allied bombing of the city during War II and a... View full entry
Architectural journal “Attention” has recently released an innovative all-audio issue of the publication, titled "Community is a Practice" (Issue 6), written and narrated by Portland State University School of Architecture faculty members Anna Goodman and Molly Esteve. Anna Goodman... View full entry
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis announces their Spring '22 public lecture series. The school shares, "each semester, the Sam Fox School brings nationally and internationally recognized architects, artists, designers, landscape architects... View full entry
Continuing with Archinect's Get Lectured Spring '22 edition, we share the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning's upcoming lectures, events, and exhibitions programming via Zoom and in-person. Kicking off SARUP's lecture series is "Now What?! Advocacy, Activism... View full entry
Who gets to be remembered in a city, and why? That will be one of the questions on the dais when artist Catherine Opie joins current and former LA Times architecture critics Christopher Hawthorne and Carolina A. Miranda for a conversation on the topic at The Broad Museum in Los Angeles... View full entry
