With the renovation and expansion of the Rothko Chapel campus in Houston nearing completion, project organizers have announced that the sacred art space will reopen to the public in September. The renovation is being designed by New York City-based Architecture Research Office and includes a... View full entry
Today, the art museum provides several functions. Wealthy collectors lend works they own for exhibitions, increasing the value of their holdings while allowing them to avoid taxes. Museums are also semi-public repositories for objects of cultural value and education initiatives. Nothing that costs $25 to enter can really be considered public. — SSENSE
Dana Kopel, archive editor at the New Museum in New York City, ruminates on the significance of museums in contemporary society as sites of labor and work, conditions that have been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kopel writes, "The museum is a place: a situated and permanent space... View full entry
The 17th International Architecture Exhibition for the Venice Biennale has been postponed for a second time due to the Coronavirus pandemic and is now rescheduled to take place May 22nd to November 21, 2021. The exhibition, titled How Will We Live Together? and curated... View full entry
“Our entire profession is geared toward the values and demands and needs of human beings,” [...] “But all over the world, these huge mechanical entities are now appearing. They are typically enormous, typically rectangular, typically hermetic.” [...] “We need to conceive of architecture that accommodates machines and robots, maybe as a priority,” Koolhaas says. “And that then investigates how robots and human rights might coexist in a single building.” — Time
Rem Koolhaas his thoughts on how architecture as a discipline might change in the post-COVID-19 era, as social distancing, automation, and anti-urban attitudes begin to take hold. Koolhaas tells TIME's Belinda Luscombe, “It would be opportunistic if I said either, I told you so, or... View full entry
Genre-spanning artist Olafur Eliasson just released WUNDERKAMMER, his latest augmented reality experience in collaboration with the Acute Art app. "Now we are spending a lot of time indoors, so I thought, okay, let's make a work of art which takes the outside inside," Eliasson explains in a short... View full entry
As universities across the country begin to plan for an unpredictable fall semester, the California State University (CSU) system has made the decision to preemptively schedule its fall semester courses online. The New York Times reports that the school system, which operates 23 campuses and... View full entry
A never-released recording of the 131st presentation of the Royal Gold Medal to the office of Charles & Ray Eames has been unveiled for the first time by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Converted from its original analog format into digital by RIBA's former Chief Archivist... View full entry
This post is brought to you by Azure Magazine An exceptional year, an incredible result: the internationally renowned jury of the 2020 AZ Awards has selected the very best from the 1,241 architecture and design entries we received – the highest number of submissions to date – from 47 countries... View full entry
Ryan Scavnicky, who you may recognize from his meme-laden Instagram, or from his Extra Extra feature series here on Archinect, has launched his YouTube channel featuring reviews on the architecture of video games. Ryan Scavnicky at work Ryan's comparison of Super Mario's repeating... View full entry
The A&AePortal developed by Yale University Press, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, offers "an authoritative e-resource featuring important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design" that includes out-of-print titles... View full entry
Copenhagen will be named UNESCO World Capital of Architecture 2023, in addition to hosting the UIA World Congress of Architects in the same year.
The title is a part of a joint initiative by UNESCO and Union of the International Architects (UIA), and is assigned to coincide with UIA’s World Congress, every three years.
— CMW
According to CMW, Copenhagen won the bid to host the 2023 World Congress of Architects in 2017 after presenting a theme focusing on ‘Sustainable futures – Leave no one behind’. The focus will be on the role of architecture in sustainable city planning and will seek to promote... View full entry
A new mixed-use development in Shenzhen, China designed by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) ambitiously pushes the "traditional boundaries between building and the urban context." OMA's CMG Qianhai Global Trade Center project is described as a compressed "Micro City" that the... View full entry
Marvin Malecha, an architect, educator, and author, has passed away at age 70 in San Diego. News of Malecha's death was shared by NewSchool, where Malecha had been both President and Chief Academic Officer since 2016. A statement from the institution remembers the highly decorated design... View full entry
Back in early March, it was announced that the Board of Directors of the School of Architecture at Taliesin (SOAT) had turned back a decision it made in January to shut down following a protracted tenancy dispute with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. In a press release announcing the... View full entry
Before the coronavirus crisis, the drive-through had been fast losing status, often deployed as a symbol of obesity and the worst of car-dependent urban design. In many cities, it had been subject to outright bans. The drive-in, meanwhile, is nearly extinct, with just a few still operating in Southern California.
But during the pandemic, drive-throughs have become a weird sort of societal glue. And the drive-in has been reconsidered.
— The Los Angeles Times
Writing in The Los Angeles Times, journalist and critic Carolina Miranda takes a look at the renewed significance of drive-thru and drive-in spaces in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic. Miranda writes, "Their architectural standoffish-ness, in which vendor and client interact largely... View full entry