New(ish) Archinect writer Niall Patrick Walsh suggests this year’s (rescheduled) Venice Biennale missed a "golden opportunity" to radically reform how it promotes contemporary architectural trends, and in doing so, address long-held concerns over its relevance, accessibility, and environmental... View full entry
Today, in partnership with Exhibit Columbus, we're introducing Next Up: Exhibit Columbus, our 5-part series of conversations with the curators of Exhibit Columbus and the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. The designers awarded the Miller Prize were each selected for their... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University This summer, Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University presents Learning to See : Denise Scott Brown, an immersive show examining Denise Scott Brown’s defining views on architecture and... View full entry
The first major exhibition in Tokyo dedicated to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kenzo Tange is opening later this month. Renowned for combining traditional Japanese and modernist forms in his designs, the exhibition features a retrospective of the first half of the influential architect’s... View full entry
A new memorial to victims of the Sandy Hook shooting has been approved following a referendum vote in Connecticut that finalized the project after nearly three years of cost-related delays. View of fountain. Image courtesy SWA Group. The memorial is adjacent to the new Sandy Hook Elementary... View full entry
The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the citywide partner sites and organizations for the 2021 edition of the event. The sites and organizations will host installations, present programs, and collaborate with contributing designers from the Biennial’s opening date on September 17th... View full entry
AMO, the research, branding, and publication studio of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has taken over the fences of the United Nations headquarters in New York for a public exhibition that serves as a continuation of Countryside, The Future. Curated by architect and OMA... View full entry
Steven Holl Architects’ traveling exhibition, Steven Holl: Making Architecture, has opened at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Poland. This is the first venue to host the showcase in Europe, as the ninth stop of the exhibition’s tour. The exhibit opened on June 11th, exclusively... View full entry
This year’s AIA Conference on Architecture just got an unexpected celebrity guest. Tennis legend Venus Williams will be the keynote speaker at this year’s edition of the conference, where she will deliver a lecture titled ‘The Need for Change.’ Williams, who has long been seen as a... View full entry
The National Building Museum has announced the return of its annual Summer Block Party. Titled Inside Out, the event diverges from previous renditions, which featured massive, immersive installations within the museum’s Great Hall. Instead, festivities will be formatted into smaller projects and... View full entry
The latest iteration of the Serpentine Pavilion is now open in London after more than a year of COVID-related delays. South African studio Counterspace had to wait 10 months to present its final design after being named to the commission in February of 2020. Serpentine Pavilion... View full entry
Here you’ll see Gehry’s only concession to showiness, in the form of a Piranesian switchback staircase leading to the basement level. Even that is outshone, though, by the splendid vaulted walkway leading off from it, decked out in Guastavino tile and re-emerging after decades as back of house. (For the moment nothing is down here except a couple of sculptures, a gift shop, and a little cafe; the macchiato was pretty good.) — NYT
Jason Farago reviewed a renewed "Core Project" by Gehry Partners at the Philadelphia Museum. View of the Williams Forum from level one, looking west to Lenfest Hall - Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, 2021. From the previously published article, "The Philadelphia Museum of... View full entry
The Museum of Modern Art has announced details of “Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China,” an exhibition highlighting a new generation of Chinese architects and their commitment to social and environmental sustainability. On display from September 16, 2021 through July... View full entry
Earlier this week, on May 26th, celebrated Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye formally received the 2021 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Royal Gold Medal in a virtual ceremony. Surprise luminaries from around the world, including former U.S. President Barack Obama and U... View full entry
Artist Maya Lin’s long-awaited skeletal forest has finally opened in New York’s famed Madison Square Park. With the help of 49 dead Atlantic Cedar trees sourced from the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the 61-year-old Lin has transformed the park into an immersive installation — her first in... View full entry
