The six-month-long Carnival cycle of lectures, panel discussions, performances, and other events at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale will kick off next Saturday, May 20th, with a six-person conversation in league with the curatorial theme of The Laboratory of the Future. David Adjaye... View full entry
A panel discussion featuring David Chipperfield and four of the seven most recent Pritzker Prize laureates will be held virtually on Tuesday, May 23rd from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). The discussion is being put on in partnership with the NTUA and with the... View full entry
Following last week’s look at an opening for an AI-Related Architectural Intern at DVLPR, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Digital Fabricator / Model Designers at Safdie Architects. The role, based in Safdie’s... View full entry
I’ve responded to an invitation. Nobody could knock on the door of the Pompidou Center and say, “Hey, I had this idea.” This wasn’t my idea. I’m responding to an invitation, and I’m honored on behalf of so many people to accept it.
I’m excited about the future. I think the future is more interesting than the past. I leave the past to other people.
— The New York Times
The 1999 Pritzker Prize winner also delved into topics as far ranging as his yearslong dispute with environmental activists, representation of women in architecture, engagements in Saudi Arabia, NEOM, so-called "starchitects," and the world to come. The exhibition features some 130 major projects... View full entry
Arquitectonica has released an update to its previously proposed redevelopment project at 8850 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. The former site of the notorious Viper Room will now feature an increased number of affordable housing units and market-rate condos while retaining its planned 5-star... View full entry
UC San Diego has hosted the tallest full-scale seismic building test on an earthquake simulator. The LEVER Architecture-designed 10-story building, made of cross-laminated timber, was tested on what the organizers say is the world’s largest outdoor shake table. Image credit: UC San Diego Jacobs... View full entry
Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning has announced the appointment of Dr. Abimbola O. Asojo as the school's new dean. Dr. Asojo is the second dean in the school's history following the tenure of former dean Mary Anne Akers, the school's founding dean who held the position... View full entry
This post is brought to you by SCI-Arc, an Archinect School Partner Registration for SCI-Arc's landmark summer programs Making+Meaning (M+M), Design Immersion Days (DID), and Introduction to Digital Design (IDD) are open.Open to creative individuals, inspired professionals, and current college... View full entry
From Archinect's community of job seekers, firms, and schools, we have selected five featured architectural employers with exciting openings in New York, Los Angeles, Beijing, Santa Fe, and Portland, Maine. Check out these opportunities below, and visit Archinect Jobs for the complete list of... View full entry
Influential English architect Michael Squire has passed away at the age of 77 following a short illness, his firm reported this week. The Squire & Partners co-founder began his career working for his father Raglan abroad in the mid-1970s before going on to start the firm with Paul Harrison in... View full entry
OpenAI, the company behind AI applications such as ChatGPT and text-to-image tool DALL-E, has unveiled a new model that allows users to generate 3D objects from text or images. Named Shap-E, and available for free on GitHub, the tool generates 3D objects that can be opened in Microsoft Paint 3D... View full entry
Although the Biennale is hardly the first major exhibition to focus on Black and diasporic practitioners, the cascading crises of climate change, rapid urbanization, migration, global health emergencies and a deep imperative to decolonize institutions and spaces — starting with the historically Eurocentric Biennale itself — arguably make Lokko’s focus on hybrid forms of practice timely, be it planners as policy experts or artist-environmentalists. — The New York Times
Lokko repeated to the Times her interest in using the Biennale platform to disabuse stigmas about African identity before discussing her own experiences with identity, path to architecture, and the potential she and others are striving to present to the world. “The ability to be several things... View full entry
The construction permit for MVRDV's 15-story residential building "Ziel" in Montevideo, Uruguay has been approved, marking the Dutch architectural firm's first venture in the country. The building, designed for developer IXOU in collaboration with executive architect Monoblock, is set to... View full entry
One significant theme of the 2023 list is how multicultural communities that grew in parallel with a specific place now face cultural erasure—the gradual disappearance of community landmarks that help tell the story of those who’ve called a place home, along with the loss of treasured local businesses, restaurants, customs, and traditions. — National Trust for Historic Preservation
The 2023 list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places, compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, includes: Osterman Gas Station, Peach Springs, ArizonaLittle Santo Domingo, Miami, FloridaPierce Chapel African Cemetery, Midland, GeorgiaCentury and Consumers Buildings, Chicago... View full entry
Adjaye Associates has just been announced to lead the design of the newly-commissioned Perry Center for Native American Art at the Shelburne Museum in northern Vermont. The project’s brief calls for a “sustainable building with integrated landscape created in collaboration with Indigenous... View full entry
