SCI-Arc opened a new exhibition last Friday, curated by Class of 1995 M.Arch graduate Gordon Kipping, that documents the development of mass timber within contemporary architecture. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s 1914–15 Dom-Ino House prototype, Maison de Cartes presents examples both in the... View full entry
Archinect has received first photos of Shigeru Ban Architects’ new collaborative installation project with students from The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. A product of this semester’s Building Technology course, Shigeru... View full entry
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has completed work on the 2024 edition of its on-site art program. The acclaimed event is taking place across two weekends: April 12–14 and 19–21. The three artistic works are described by the festival as "redefining the boundaries of large-scale... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Microsol Resources We’re about to awake to a new dawn in visualization, where exciting tools and technologies will allow everyone to create anything they can imagine, without limitations. Technology enables visualizing spaces and rendering architectural models in... View full entry
The Department of Architecture at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) has shared its late semester schedule of public speaking events as part of our Get Lectured rundown for the Spring 2024 term. Events this semester begin on Tuesday, April 16, with an appearance from Carmen Suero, the Principal of... View full entry
The show is a gem. It focuses on domestic design from six countries (Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Venezuela), produced between 1940 and 1980. Latin America had entered a period of transformation, industrial expansion and creativity. Across the region, design was becoming institutionalized as a profession, opening up new avenues, especially for women. — The New York Times
Critic Michael Kimmelman has heaped praise on the 'Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980' MoMA exhibition in a new piece for The New York Times. As we reported in December of last year, the show looks at the growth of modernism through an industrial and entrepreneurial... View full entry
Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Ruth Carter have been announced as keynote speakers for the upcoming AIA Conference on Architecture & Design 2024. Gupta will deliver his speech to the Washington D.C. conference on June 7th, with Carter delivering her speech on June 8th. Gupta is the Chief Medical... View full entry
This post is brought to you by SCI-Arc, an Archinect Partner School This month, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is set to unveil Maison de Cartes, an exhibition by Gordon Kipping that delves into the innovative use of timber in contemporary architecture. Inspired by the... View full entry
Sou Fujimoto’s studio has shared new construction images of the forthcoming Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai's The Grand Roof circular wooden container structure, a year ahead of the start of the six-month fair, which begins on April 13th, 2025. The enormous structure is 1,969 feet (600 meters) in... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Tulane School of Architecture, an Archinect Partner School Set for April 6, 2024, at Tulane University's Freeman Auditorium, 'Architecture’s Ecological Restructuring: Part II' is a notable symposium addressing the intersection of architecture and environmental... View full entry
Photos of the central hub for Perth Design Week, the eight-day event taking place now in the Western Australia capital, have been revealed by OMA to go along with the start of festivities. Their colorful design for PRINCIPLES Square is located inside Cathedral Square in Perth's city center and... View full entry
Our annual Archinect readers’ predictions for this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize have once again spurred a lively discussion forum thread full of guesses as to which architect will become the 53rd official laureate when the prize is announced on Tuesday, March 5. Last year, our social... View full entry
The Gagosian Gallery’s Madison Avenue location has recently opened an exhibition of Frank Gehry artworks titled Ruminations. On view until April 6th, the gallery will be showing recent works Gehry’s team says are in dialog with the architect’s engagements with fluid aquatic animal... View full entry
Texas Tech University’s Huckabee College of Architecture has shared lecture details for the Spring term related to its 2023–24 Publicness programming for our Get Lectured preview of different events in store this semester. The school shares: “Publicness refers to the power of architecture... View full entry
It's not too late yet to cast a vote for your favorite Fall '23 architecture school lecture poster! The reader poll to select the most popular design of the 32 posters we presented for that academic term in our ongoing Get Lectured series opened earlier this month and still runs until Tuesday... View full entry
