Technoflesh: An Interview with Simone Niquille on Normalizing the Body Digitally, Physically, and in the Workplace, Mon, Feb 24 '20

Creator of the design and research practice Technoflesh, Simone Niquille draws from her background in graphic design, photography, and branding to demystify the processes behind the digitization of the body. Currently working in Amsterdam, Niquille received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode ...

Suburbicide, Thu, Jan 17 '19

I.  The United States Air Force does not publish statistics on suicides committed by pilots of their unmanned combat aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, but it is the most significant bodily risk they face. In general, suicide ranks as the biggest killer of all Active Duty airmen, and ...

Rensselaer Students Develop a Disaster Architecture from Water Bottles and Shipping Materials, Wed, Jul 11 '18

A preliminary hypothesis: we are living in an era marked by a profusion of “crises” — some environmental, some sociopolitical, some economic, and most a mixture of all three. In turn, in architecture, particularly its academies, we are witnessing an attendant explosion of designs for ...

The Medusae and the Migrant: Ala Tannir on the Ecology of Crisis in the Mediterranean, Thu, Jun 21 '18

Since the beginning of 2018 alone, 857 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean — more than five per day — fleeing war, political repression, economic hardship, and ecological crises. It is the deadliest migration route in the world. While the internal borders of the ...

A House Without A Hierarchy, Tue, Nov 14 '17

Born out of the 2008 financial crash, the Barcelona-based studio MAIO cares less about form (although their forms are striking) and more about the politics of practice. At the heart of their work is the idea that architecture must change over time to keep up with mutating social and behavioral ...

The Amnesias of "Make New History", Wed, Sep 27 '17

Before there was Mies, there was Mecca. Built originally as a hotel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Mecca Apartments, which once occupied the site of the now-heralded IIT campus in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, served as a cultural epicenter for the city’s Black ...

Listen to 'Next Up: Arroyo Seco Weekend' Mini-Sessions, Thu, Jul 20 '17

Recently, Archinect teamed up with Bureau Spectacular for the Arroyo Seco Weekend festival. Jimenez Lai and Joanna Grant designed a pavilion for the event, while Archinect's Paul Petrunia and Nicholas Korody held a series of interviews within it. Conversations focused on temporary architecture ...

A look at 22 talented immigrants expanding the definition of American architecture, Tue, Jul 4 '17

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” read the famous lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Housing nearly 20% of all immigrants in the world, the United States is a famously diverse country and, when at its best, incredibly welcoming. This Fourth ...

Happy Canada Day! A quick look at some of Archinect's favorite practices from each province and territory, Sat, Jul 1 '17

Every July 1, Canadians unite to celebrate their country and its history. Specifically, Canada Day commemorates the merger of what were once three separate colonies—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada (contemporary Ontario and Quebec). It was a milestone in the movement from colony to ...

Screen/Print #57: Dora Epstein Jones On Re-centering 'the Building' in Architectural Discourse, Fri, Jun 23 '17

“We forgot about buildings,” claims Dora Epstein Jones in this provocative essay for The Building, a new volume edited by José Aragüez and published by Lars Müller, featured here as part of Archinect’s recurring series Screen/Print.

With 'Ways of Life,' 19 Architects Reimagine What It Means to Live and Work in Nature, Wed, Jun 21 '17

According to research from 2015, between 35-38% of people do some, if not all, work from home. And, even back in 2009, a study found that 1 in 5 spent two to ten hours working from bed. In short, the way we work and live is changing, as many ditch (or have to ditch) the commuter express for their ...

At Exhibit Columbus, Students Get a Chance to Test Their Ideas in the Real World, Thu, Jun 15 '17

On August 26, the inaugural exhibition of Exhibit Columbus, an annual exploration of architecture, art, design, and community, will open to the public. The exhibition will include six built structures, designed by teams from six different Midwestern universities, that investigate the built ...

Michael Wylie on the Far-Out Set Designs of 'Legion', Thu, Jun 15 '17

By definition, a background can be easy to forget about—but it can have as much of an effect on the overall feel of a show as the script or an actor. When it comes to a show like Legion on FX, the set takes on additional importance, serving as a visual representation of the (incredibly ...

Screen/Print #56: Alessandro Bava and Oskar Johanson Reflect on the Future of the AA in 'DUE', Wed, Jun 14 '17

One of the preeminent schools of architecture in the world, the Architectural Association of Architecture (AA) in London is in the midst of some significant changes. Brett Steele, the director of the school, is heading out to Los Angeles where he will serve as Dean of the UCLA School of Arts and ...

Mia Lundström is Blurring Local and Global, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Planning with the Kalejdohill Project, Tue, Jun 13 '17

In today’s hyper-digitized environment, the local and the global aren’t so easily defined. Just search ‘locals only’ on Instagram, for example, and you’ll find photos tagged from around the world. So it’s only fitting that urban planning projects, when seeking ...

Helmut Jahn on His Practice, His Career, and His Most Recent Chicago Project 1000M, Wed, Jun 7 '17

Back in the day, he was known as “Flash Gordon”—a daring young German-American architect with equally daring designs for his adopted home of Chicago. Now, just over 50 years since he first arrived to the Windy City, a more experienced and restrained Helmut Jahn is working on a major new ...

Environmentalism Matters for Architects — With or Without the Paris Agreement, Fri, Jun 2 '17

Yesterday, amidst the roses, magnolias, crabapples and Littleleaf lindens that populate the White House Rose Garden, the President announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the landmark international climate agreement made last year and signed by every country in the ...

Remix and Reconfigure: the Radical Cut-Up Method of Lukas Feireiss, Wed, May 17 '17

For all the haranguing and hand-wringing about originality and novelty in the discipline, architecture is, at its core, a remix practice. Most elements in a building have existed for centuries, and the most celebrated “innovations” are usually iterations, fundamentally indebted to a ...

Moshe Safdie Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of Habitat 67, the Masterpiece He Completed at 25, Wed, May 10 '17

Fifty years ago, a young Canadian-Israeli architect got the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to realize his senior thesis for the 1967 World Fair in Montréal. The resulting housing complex inspired generations of architects inside and outside of Canada, and its influence is visible in ...

Screen/Print #54: Galen Cranz on Why We Need to Rethink the Chair, Fri, Apr 28 '17

Besides buildings (obviously), chairs are probably architects favorite things to design. There’s Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair and Gerrit Reitveld’s Zig-Zag chair; Arne Jacobson’s Model 3107 and Frank Llloyd Wright’s Peacock chair. Today, the tradition ...

From Bjarke Ingels to Kengo Kuma, Ian Gillespie is a Developer that Appreciates the Value of Architecture, Wed, Apr 26 '17

Making the leap from paper to brick and mortar (or from the screen to IRL) tends to require a fair amount of financial support. Back in the old days, that would mean a wealthy patron like a Medici or a Guggenheim. And today—well, it also usually means a wealthy patron. For big projects, like ...

Screen/Print #53: Richard Meier Ponders the Meaning of 'Home' in America, Today, Fri, Apr 21 '17

“What does it take to make a house a home?” asks Bernard Friedman, editor of the newly-released book The American Idea of Home: Conversations About Architecture and Design. Featuring interviews with thirty of the most significant architects practicing today, the volume probes the ...

Designing For and With the Landscape: an Interview with MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Wed, Apr 19 '17

In a way, the work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects stands out in that it fits in. That is to say, while so many of their contemporaries orient their work around attention-grabbing icons, the Halifax-based practice led by Bryan MacKay-Lyons and Talbot Sweetapple strives to make buildings that ...

The Proust Questionnaire: Fernando Romero, Tue, Apr 11 '17

Every other week, we get personal with a major architect for our new series the Proust Questionnaire. For this week's iteration, we're talking with Fernando Romero, the OMA-trained architect who heads the Mexico City-based studio fr·ee.

Screen/Print #52: Shela Sheikh Searches for New Political Vocabularies in 'And Now: Architecture Against a Developer Presidency', Wed, Apr 5 '17

On November 8, 2016 Donald Trump won the US Presidential election. Just under a month later, the US Army Corps of Engineers temporarily halted the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline following large protests heavily covered by the media. These events frame  Shela Sheikh’s essay ...

Designing support for incarcerated trans and GNC people: an interview with Support.fm from Next Up: Floating Worlds, Thu, Mar 30 '17

“Support.fm is necessary because we have an unjust bail system that keeps people in prison and detention for up to years at a time before ever seeing trial,” says Blaine O’Neill, one-third of Support.fm, a crowdfunding tool to support, in particular, trans and gender ...

From the Farnsworth to Wikileaks: Metahaven on Transparency, Propaganda and Design, Thu, Mar 30 '17

Where are we? Somewhere in Eastern Ukraine, July 18, 2014—the day after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down, killing all 238 passengers as well as the fifteen crew members on board. Later, Russian media would suggest that the shooting was an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin; that it ...

'Working through architecture and its refusal': an interview with f-architecture from Next Up: Floating Worlds, Wed, Mar 29 '17

“We’re interested in bodies and their implications in space, their political positions in space, and how materially and technologically they are constituted,” states the Feminist Architecture Collaborative, otherwise known as f-architecture, during an interview conducted as part ...

Between the home and the market: an interview with Christine Bjerke from Next Up: Floating Worlds, Tue, Mar 28 '17

“The economy of the home becoming an investment culture instead of a savings culture disrupts the idea of very specific gendered roles in Japanese society,” states the Copenhagen-based architect Christine Bjerke during an interview conducted as part of Archinect’s Next Up ...

'What it means to live today': an interview with Jack Self from Next Up: Floating Worlds, Mon, Mar 27 '17

“Everything we think of as being normal in the home, everything we think of as being traditional—they’re all inventions,” states Jack Self, the London-based founder of the REAL Foundation, during an interview conducted as part of Archinect’s fourth live podcasting ...

Finding the Contemporary City Between the Local and the Global with In-Between Economies, Wed, Mar 22 '17

How is the city made? Who is it made by? Who is it made for? These are the questions poised by In-Between Economies, an interdisciplinary research platform based in Copenhagen, London and Oslo. In their view, the only way to address them in the 21st century is to expand beyond the purview of ...

Deans List: Qingyun Ma of the University of Southern California, Tue, Mar 21 '17

Qingyun Ma, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, cares more about preserving what’s right with the school, now celebrating its 100th year, than his own signature.

The Proust Questionnaire: Ben van Berkel, Tue, Mar 14 '17

You know their name and you know their architecture. But how much do you actually know about the people behind the architectural practice UNStudio?In this iteration of the Proust Questionnaire, our new series profiling leading figures in architecture, we speak with Ben van Berkel, the ...

The People’s Architecture Office Uses Mass-Production and Readymades to Deliver Affordable Architecture to Difficult Sites, Tue, Mar 7 '17

With a name like theirs, it’s no surprise that the People’s Architecture Office strives for inclusive, socially conscious and accessible design. The Beijing-based studio has developed a practice that takes advantage of aspects of the Chinese economy to deliver affordable, contemporary ...

Student Works: Designing a Union for Freelancers, Fri, Mar 3 '17

Technological, political and economic transformations over the last few decades have radically changed the nature of work. Today, we can draw floor plans as easily from bed as from the office. And with the emergence of platforms such as Skwerl, the freelance economy looks like it could start to ...

Phil Freelon on Engaging with Black History Through Architecture, Thu, Mar 2 '17

From translating historic iron latticework into a digitally-produced façade to ensuring LEED certification, Phil Freelon played a pivotal, and perhaps under-recognized, role in the creation of the critically-acclaimed National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

Decoding Gender Discrimination in Design with QSPACE, Thu, Mar 2 '17

Last week, President Trump rescinded an Obama-era order that had provided protections for transgender and gender nonconforming (GNC) students by allowing them to use bathrooms that correlate to their gender identity. Often unnoticed spaces, bathrooms have become the locus point for struggles to ...

Uncovering the Architecture of Colonialism with 'The Funambulist', Wed, Mar 1 '17

The Funambulist is a bimestrial online and print journal founded by the French architect Léopold Lambert in 2015. Operating alongside a blog and a podcast, The Funambulist critically engages with some of the most pressing issues of the day, focusing on the political relationships between ...

Screen/Print #51: Moving from the Ordinary to the Extraordinary with "The Generic Sublime", Tue, Feb 28 '17

Luxury condominiums, airport hubs, resort complexes, gated communities, satellite cities — these are among the “extra-large” architectural typologies that have proliferated globally in recent years. In The Generic Sublime: Organizational Models for Global Architecture, a new book ...

Can Skwerl Bring Architecture into the “On-Demand” Economy?, Thu, Feb 23 '17

Technologies, from computation to automation, have certainly and radically altered architecture. So have the economic transformations that accompanied their emergence as well as the concurrent financial crisis. But, in the era of mass disruptions, technological and otherwise, architecture has ...

Contingencies, Complicities and Contradictions: Andrés Jaque Exposes the Processes Behind Architecture, Wed, Feb 15 '17

Andrés Jacque and the Office for Political Innovation have been tasked with renovating CA2M, a museum in central Spain. But, rather than close the building for a few years, they’re keeping the museum open during the remodel. In the process, they’re making the act of architecture ...

The Proust Questionnaire: Thom Mayne, Tue, Feb 14 '17

You know their buildings—but how much do you know about the architects themselves? The Proust Questionnaire is a new series that gets up close and personal with some of the biggest names in the industry.

Small Studio Snapshots: West of West, Mon, Feb 13 '17

How can a small studio survive in an industry dominated by huge firms? That's what we're trying to find out with our new, weekly series, Small Studio Snapshots. This week, we're talking with West of West, a practice based out of Portland and Los Angeles.

HGTV Theory: Tiny House Hunters, Debt Resistors, Wed, Feb 8 '17

On the episode “Family of Six Goes Tiny” of HGTV’s Tiny House Hunters, Cindy, Dan, and their four daughters, ranging in age from 14 to two, downsize from their 2,500 square foot house in Santa Clarita to a 600 square foot home in Corning, New York—100 square feet per ...

Small Studio Snapshots: Taller KEN, Mon, Feb 6 '17

Many young architects dream of one day having their own—presumably big—studio. But before you get there, you have to start off small—and, in the end, you may just want to keep it that way. After all, staying light can help you keep afloat when the going gets tough. And it's ...

Trump's Travel Ban: Architects and Educators Respond, Fri, Feb 3 '17

Last Friday, President Trump issued a highly controversial executive order that temporarily bans citizens and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries—Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen. According to an attorney for the government, 100,000 visas have been revoked ...

Small Studio Snapshots: Superjacent, Mon, Jan 30 '17

Archinect's newest series, Small Studio Snapshots, takes a look behind the curtain of small architecture practices. What motivates them? What difficulties do they come across? What are the advantages of keeping trim?  This week, we're talking to Superjacent, an LA-based studio comprised of ...

Hear Ye! The New 10 Commandments for Architecture, Thu, Jan 26 '17

Since at least Vitruvius, architects have searched for rules to live by. After all, when your job is to shape the world we all have to live in, it’s a good idea to make sure you know what you’re doing. But dictates, like the profession itself, need to change with time. So we asked ...

Small Studio Snapshots: MILLIØNS, Mon, Jan 23 '17

Small Studio Snapshots is a series that focuses on, well, small studios. It's about the reasons why you might set up your own studio, and the things that may get in your way. Sometimes, it can be tough to be a small fish in a big sea—but the rewards can also be supersized. This week, we're ...

The Proust Questionnaire: Daniel Libeskind, Thu, Jan 19 '17

In architecture, the personal tends to be prohibited. "Starchitects” might have notoriously big personalities, but how much do we actually know about them? Enter the personality quiz, a favorite pastime of young adults and, as it turns out, the architect Daniel Libeskind, who agreed to ...

Maryam Eskandari on Weaving Together Her Islamic Faith with Architecture Practice, Wed, Jan 18 '17

Recently, Archinect has been taking a look at the relationship between faith and architecture. In this interview, we speak to Maryam Eskandari, Principal of MIIM Designs and Adviser in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. A practicing Muslim, Eskandari views her practice as ...

Small Studio Snapshots: Peter Zellner of ZELLNERandCompany, Mon, Jan 16 '17

Chances are, when you first considered pursuing architecture, you imagined forging your own path. But, of course, the realities of practicing architecture in the 21st century make that easier said than done. Starting your own small practice is no small feat. We’re interviewing a variety of ...

The Exhibitionary Complex, Thu, Jan 12 '17

One morning I woke up to a surprising text: my friend was on TMZ. For reasons never communicated to me, she had been hanging out with a celebrity of some renown when, as they walked to a club, they were surrounded by paparazzi. To distract them, my friend impulsively decided to lift up her shirt ...

How to Inject Poetry into Architecture: Carme Pinós in Conversation with Orhan Ayyüce, Tue, Jan 10 '17

Can architecture be both poetic and serve the needs of the people who use it? That’s the question that orients this conversation between Orhan Ayyuce and Carme Pinós, the award-winning Spanish architect. Conducted at the former home of the famed architect Richard Neutra—what is ...

Small Studio Snapshots: Safura Salek of Mass Studio, Mon, Jan 9 '17

In this new series, Small Studio Snapshots, we're taking a look at the ups and downs, ins and outs of running a small architecture studio. For this installment, we're talking with Safura Salek of MASS STUDIO, a bicoastal design collective based out of New York and Los Angeles. Run by two ...

The Ulm Synagogue Mixes Modern Design with Memory, Fri, Jan 6 '17

On the night of November 9, 1938, members of the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi paramilitary force, and German citizens took to the streets, smashing the windows of Jewish-owned businesses and destroying over 1,000 synagogues. At least 91 people were murdered and some 30,000 Jewish men were ...

Michael Rotondi Opens Up About the Faith Propelling His Life and Work, Thu, Jan 5 '17

"It’s a practice rather than a religion, but the practice is essentially living by principles and then meditation," states Michael Rotondi. "It’s Buddhism without beliefs, I guess would be a way to look at it."

Designing the House of One, a Worship Space for Three Religions by Kuehn Malvezzi, Wed, Dec 21 '16

From the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba to the Hagia Sophia, there are many spaces that have, at one time or another, served different religions. But, by and large, each religion has a monopoly on the space at a given time. Few religious spaces are truly shared between different faiths, even if ...

Menis Arquitectos use local building techniques to create a sharp-edged sacred space, Fri, Dec 16 '16

Some 100 kilometers off the coast of Morocco, the Canary Islands are an archipelago of islands and autonomous community of Spain. Tenerife, the largest island, has a population of just under 900,000 people—the vast majority of whom are Catholic. It’s no surprise, therefore, that the ...

Strapping on the Sacred: When Religion Enters Virtual Reality, Thu, Dec 15 '16

A few months ago, I found myself a lone skeptic in a sea of believers at the VR L.A. Expo. I watched heads tilt toward the sky (then the ground, then side to side). I navigated long lines that snaked through a grid of cardboard booths, filled with eager believers awaiting communion not with God ...

Drinking the Kool-Aid: The Architecture of Fringe Religions, Fri, Dec 9 '16

Religions have inspired some of the great architecture of human history. Reims Cathedral. The Blue Mosque. Angkor Wat. But what about those faiths that aren’t exactly major? Or are controversial? Or aren't religions at all?

The Architect Behind Noah's Ark Shares How Faith Influences His Practice, Thu, Dec 8 '16

This month, in line with Archinect’s December theme, Faith, we’re talking to architects of various faiths about how their spiritual practice figures into their architectural practice. In this iteration, we speak with LeRoy Troyer, the president and chair of Troyer Group. Troyer Group ...

At USC's 'Homeless Studio', Students Work Towards Real Solutions to the City's Homeless Crisis, Wed, Nov 30 '16

Just a few miles from the University of Southern California campus, Skid Row contains a significant portion of the homeless population of Los Angeles, a city in the midst of a declared state of emergency with nearly 47,000 people in total living in shelters and on the street. For R ...

Tweaking the City: the Politics of Urban Interventions, Wed, Nov 23 '16

“We know that we are living in a crisis,” states Mathias Klenner, one of five members of the Santiago-based architectural collective TOMA. “We also know that the neoliberal political and economic system is so deep inside our minds and inside our bodies that we cannot think of any ...

Max Friedlander's "Wind Inhabitor" Goes Wherever the Weather Takes It, Fri, Nov 18 '16

A building fails when it falls victim to the elements. Stability, or firmatis, is the least common denominator of architecture: the first in Vitruvius’ Triad and the least contested. We want our buildings anchored to the ground, resilient against storms and seasons. But what would be the ...

Architects Respond to the AIA’s Statement in Support of President-Elect Donald Trump, Mon, Nov 14 '16

The AIA’s formal statement, and follow-up, in response to Donald J. Trump’s election has elicited outrage within the architecture community. Architects, AIA-members and not, feel that the organization has failed to represent their interests, choosing instead to cooperate with what many ...

Behind the façade: WORKac's hidden penthouse, 3D-modelled capitals, and other subtle interventions in 'the Obsidian Building', Fri, Nov 11 '16

In the latter half of the 19th century, areas of New York City, in particular SoHo, got a facelift courtesy of a major new technology: cast-iron. Cheap, sturdy, and easily to install, cast-iron façades were used to dress up older industrial buildings and attract new tenants. The material was ...

Screen/Print #47: Fresh Meat's 'Of the City', from UIC, Wed, Nov 9 '16

Individuality is a prized commodity. “Dare to be different,” we’re told. “To thine own self be true,” inspirational posters implore, butchering a quotation from Hamlet that originally implied multiple, different meanings. But how? After all, the most punk of punks is ...

Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas': in conversation with Denise Scott Brown, Part 3: Research, Tue, Nov 8 '16

For the past few months, we’ve been publishing parts of an extended conversation with Denise Scott Brown. In this installment, we delve deeper into our discussion of the pedagogical methods employed in the Learning from Las Vegas studio, and what ‘learning’ should mean for ...

Archinect’s 2016 US Presidential Election Guide: How Trump and Clinton Stand on the Issues Architects Care about Most, Tue, Nov 1 '16

With the U.S. election just a week away, most Americans have likely made up their mind. But for any potential undecided Archinecters out there (do you exist? am I speaking to the void?), we’ve compiled a handy guide to where each candidate stands on some of the issues closest to an ...

Michael Rotondi's GamerLab™ Wants to Revolutionize Architecture Education Through Gaming, Mon, Oct 31 '16

In a typical media narrative, video games are responsible for social isolation, decreased attention spans, and even violent tendencies. But according to GamerLab™, a new educational platform and pedagogical method developed by the LA-based RotoLab, as well as an increasingly large body of ...

Ornament and Extinction in the Nuclear Era, Wed, Oct 26 '16

The Anthropocene is a contested name for "the era of geological time during which human activity is considered to be the dominant influence on the environment, climate, and ecology of the earth." As the fourth installment of the recurring Architecture of the ...

Student Works: 'Ensemblespiel' Makes Uncanny Architecture from Everyday Objects, Tue, Oct 25 '16

“In an ensemble, the tone of a singular instrument becomes difficult to distinguish at the moment when all of its players strike a note,” explains the German-born, LA-based designer Paul Krist, a recent graduate of the Southern California Institute of Architecture’s M.Arch II program ...

Untangling Manila's Infrastructural Mess With a Web of Aerial "Capsules", Thu, Oct 20 '16

Manila, the capital of the Philippines and its second-largest city, is beset by heavy traffic, public health problems, homelessness, pollution, water sanitation issues, and a growing number of informal developments. According to Jonathan Gayomali, this is due, in part, to its underdeveloped ...

Putting the Planet to Paper: The Monumental Geographies of DESIGN EARTH, Wed, Oct 19 '16

“DESIGN EARTH is concerned with relationships between design and the Earth—as matter, scale, and worldview—to open aesthetic and political concerns for architecture and urbanism,” state El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of their collective practice.

Using algorithms to disrupt suburbia's monotonous designs, Thu, Oct 13 '16

“Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same,” Malvina Reynolds sang in 1962, forty-three years before her verses served as the theme music for the TV show Weeds. The song still resonates because, despite formal changes, suburban developments have, for some ...

Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas' with Denise Scott Brown, Part 2: Pedagogy, Wed, Oct 5 '16

We left off our conversation with Denise Scott Brown talking about her childhood in South Africa and her early architectural influences. Now, in part 2 of our 3-part series, we discuss the unique pedagogical methods she pioneered alongside her husband, Robert Venturi.

If Only I Had Known: Advice for Prospective Architecture Students, from Former Students, Thu, Sep 29 '16

Anyway you slice it, the decision to go to architecture school is a big one—one of the biggest you may make. Architecture school is notorious for its grueling academic culture, so get used to sleeping under a desk. It’s also long (up to five years for a B.Arch, and two to 3.5 years for ...

Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas' with Denise Scott Brown, Part I: The Foundation, Wed, Sep 28 '16

Nearly fifty years ago, Denise Scott Brown, her husband Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour brought nine architecture students, two planning students, and two graphic design students to Las Vegas. There they studied the famous, if often derided, Las Vegas Strip, discovering a wealth of meaning in ...

A well, a windmill, a mirror: Sigil's real and symbolic interventions in Syria, Tue, Sep 27 '16

“Hospitals, water and electricity are always the first to be attacked,” states a doctor from Anadan, a city in Northern Syria, as quoted in an Amnesty International report. “Once that happens people no longer have services to survive.” 

Context as content: mapping the contemporary at the 2016 Oslo Triennale with OMA, Andrés Jaque and more, Mon, Sep 19 '16

Maybe the closest thing to new construction in After Belonging, the sixth Oslo Architecture Triennale, is an apple press assembled with two 2x2’s, some nails, a saw, a gallon bucket, a heavy pole, a colander, a hammer, a plastic bag, a funnel and a car jack. Eriksen Skajaa Arkitekter designed ...

Screen/Print #44: 'Education: Trial and Error' from The Metropolitan Laboratory Magazine, Thu, Sep 8 '16

A hyper-competitive culture pervades today’s workplaces and academic settings. It often seems like the only path to success is, well, success. But what about the value of failure? After all, it’s hard to know what’s right when you don’t know what’s wrong.

Level up: using video games to unlock the city , Fri, Sep 2 '16

From Monopoly to SimCity, games can foster a special sort of engagement with an urban environment, helping us hash out and represent the complex socioeconomic and political forces that determine its morphology. It’s no surprise, then, that architects employ games to work out and convey new ...

Upping the ante: the high and low culture of architecture competitions, Wed, Aug 31 '16

Entering an architecture competition is basically a form of speculative investment. Time is money, and competitions tend to require a lot of both. Models, renders, and prints—not to mention wages—can deplete the coffer quickly, especially for a young practice. A studio will invest ...

London is a game of life or death in 'Metropoly', Wed, Aug 31 '16

“The city has long been a tool for social development and progression,” writes Adam Fryett in Metropoly, his submission to Archinect’s open call for August. “It is clear however that the neoliberal age of consumer capital has led to a regression of the social ...

Using game theory to fine-tune architectural diplomacy, Thu, Aug 25 '16

When you think of game theory, you might imagine numbers scrawled with a wax pencil on a pane of glass by a troubled genius—calculations extrapolating order out of the apparent chaos of human activity. After all, that’s pretty much how it goes in A Beautiful Mind, the biopic of the ...

Behind the scenes of 'The Witness', a video game designed by architects, Tue, Aug 23 '16

"This is so beautiful – can I live here?” asks user GhostRobo on his YouTube walkthrough of the puzzle game the Witness, verbalizing what many probably feel after first leaving the dark tunnel where the player begins. This a game where the design, built in part by a team of ...

A home that molds itself to your memories, Thu, Aug 18 '16

Traces of the past permeate a home, which acts as a sort of repository for memories. Thus, a move is never just a relocation, it’s also a departure from the past and its signifiers. But what if houses conformed to our memories rather than the other way around? In The Settlement, a submission ...

'Ethical Dwellings for Generation Y' explores new forms of living and owning in a changing London, Sat, Aug 13 '16

While an average of 100,000 people move to London each year, only about 25,000 new homes are built annually: a formula that has produced a critical lack in affordable housing. The median rent in the capital city is £1,400 and the average house price has passed £600,000. In other words, only the ...

Archinect's Summer Reading + Listening List: Recommendations from Amale Andraos, Dora Epstein Jones, Jenna Didier, and Mimi Zeiger, Thu, Aug 4 '16

It turns out architecture folk don't really go for junk fiction when it comes to summer reading. Karl Ove Knausgaard makes another appearance, alongside classics by Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon, as well as some more architecture-specific reads. Here's what Amale Andraos, Dora ...

At home in a changing climate: strategies for adapting to sea level rise, Wed, Aug 3 '16

For most of us, ‘home’ conjures a sense of safety and security. But a home is a fragile thing: vulnerable to quaking ground, rushing water, violent winds—not to mention, the volatility of finances and health. This has never been more true than in the time of climate change. The ...

"Living together is only possible if there is always the possibility to be alone." – Dogma studio's hard-line look at architectural solitude, Wed, Jul 27 '16

The single-person room is the among the most basic units of architecture and the background for much of daily life. Here we project our personalities on the walls in the form of decor. Here we can retreat from the world. Yet the ubiquity and familiarity of the room nearly renders it invisible ...

SCI-Arc students step out of the studio to build an affordable, eco-friendly home with Habitat for Humanity, Mon, Jul 25 '16

It’s not that often that architecture students get to actually build a house while still in school. But a class of SCI-Arc students led by faculty member Darin Johnstone got to design and build a new home—and an affordable, eco-friendly one, at that.

Home away from home: an interview with the curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Thu, Jul 21 '16

Sometime in the last few years, your couch became a rentable asset; your bedroom, a factory; your taste, a commodity; your doorstep, the final destination for a package that has more freedom of movement than most of the world’s population. What, then, does it mean to be at home today?

Falling through the sharing economy's looking glass—and into an ocean of unpaid, gendered, domestic labor, Wed, Jul 13 '16

“Work, work, work, work, work, work,” instructs Rihanna as we drive through the mountain pass; her dancehall, reggae-pop anthem to staying on the grind despite poor returns on libidinal investment providing the tempo for my own frantic attempts to capture any last emails before I ...

The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 2), Thu, Jul 7 '16

This is the second half of a two-part interview with Cryptome, an online repository of leaked government secrets and other documents relevant to contemporary surveillance and its infrastructure. Cryptome is run by the architects Deborah Natsios and John Young, who live and work in New York City ...

Archinect's Summer Reading List: recommendations from Oana Stanescu of Family, Elaine Molinar and Craig Dykers of Snøhetta, and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Thu, Jul 7 '16

With temperatures climbing and vacations on the horizon, it’s time to stock up on summer reads. When talking to architects over the past few months, we’ve been asking for their book recommendations—to bring to the beach, to distract from the sweltering heat of the subway, or just to ...

The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 1), Tue, Jul 5 '16

Architects are no strangers to controversy, but few have had their work called a “tip off [to] terrorists,” as The New York Times once described Deborah Natsios and John Young’s twenty year old project, Cryptome. Then again, few architects devote their time to disclosing ...

#GetSafe: a beginner's guide to cybersecurity for architects, Thu, Jun 16 '16

Cybersecurity: you hear about it often, but assume it doesn’t really concern you. You have nothing to hide, right? And, besides, why would someone hack you of all people? Or your firm? 

One student's solution to the permanent limbo of refugee camps, Wed, Jun 8 '16

As conflicts continue to rage in the Middle East, North Africa, and elsewhere, millions of people have found themselves without papers, a state, or a home. Architecture is directly implicated in this humanitarian crisis—providing shelter is, after all, a primary onus of the ...

If houses had airplane modes: an interview with Joseph Grima of Space Caviar, Tue, Jun 7 '16

“Should our homes have an airplane mode?” asks the Italian architecture studio Space Caviar, in the descriptive text for their RAM House, a fully-equipped smart home that alternatively doubles as a refuge from the ubiquitous technology of today.

Book review: "Entr'acte: Performing Publics, Pervasive Media, and Architecture", Sun, Jun 5 '16

During the month of May, inspired in part by the theme of Alejandro Aravena’s Venice Biennale, Reporting from the Front, Archinect’s coverage has included a special focus on socially-engaged practices and, accordingly, hosted many conversations about how and why architects should ...

Examining the 2016 Venice Biennale: "Sarajevo Now", Sat, May 28 '16

During the early days of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we've spoken with the curators of a few select pavilions to get a read on the ideas behind their exhibitions. For this feature, we share our conversation with Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban-Think Tank and Nina Baier-Bischofberger of Baier ...

Previewing the 2016 Venice Biennale: Anupama Kundoo's "Building Knowledge", Thu, May 26 '16

In advance of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we've spoken with the curators behind a few select pavilions to check in on the status of their exhibitions. For this feature, we spoke with Anupama Kundoo about her project, Building Knowledge.

Photographing the 'Jungle' of Calais' refugee camp, Fri, May 20 '16

The northernmost vertex in the hexagon of Metropolitan France, the port city of Calais is nearly 100 kilometers closer to Brussels than to Paris. On a clear day, you can see the White Cliffs of Dover, one of the most iconic of England’s natural wonders, from its shores. Several centuries ...

Object Sexuality, or: the humans who fall in love with buildings, Wed, May 18 '16

I’m not sure how I first heard about “object sexuality,” the self-designated term employed by individuals who have sexual and romantic attraction to objects such as buildings. I think I Googled, “sexual attraction to buildings” since the theme for April was ...

Previewing the 2016 Venice Biennale: the United States' "Architectural Imagination", Tue, May 17 '16

In advance of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we've spoken with the curators behind a few select pavilions to check in on the status of their exhibitions. For this feature, we share our conversation with Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon of the American Pavilion, "The ...

Getting in the mood for One-Night Stand LA #2: the Rendezvous, Sat, Apr 30 '16

One balmy Los Angeles night last spring, throngs of architecture aficionados descended on a dingbat motel in the MacArthur Park area for what was billed, alongside amatory promotional material, as a "One-Night Stand for Art and Architecture." For a single evening, the trysting place was ...

The gimp room, the padded cell, the medical office: inside the world of Kink.com, Tue, Apr 26 '16

“If you do your job right then no one will notice,” it’s been said. There may be no better exemplar of this truism than the work that goes on behind the scenes of a porn film. In the heat of an onanistic moment, the last thing you want to think about is bad design. Yet, an adult ...

Screen/Print #41: "Family Planning" from Harvard Design Magazine , Fri, Apr 22 '16

It’s among the worst clichés of architectural writing: towers are phallic; stadiums (or just any project by a certain recently-deceased icon) are vulval. But what about when the architects themselves describe their project in genital terms? And, in particular, when they take ...

The internship test or: why even become an architect at all?, Wed, Apr 6 '16

The question of internships frames something of a litmus test in architecture – although they tend to indicate more about the hiring firm than the hire. Exploited labor or necessary rite-of-passage? It’s a debate that’s been raging for decades almost exclusively through this ...

Opendesk, cracking the production code for open-source furniture, Wed, Mar 30 '16

Before the Industrial Revolution, if you wanted a new piece of furniture, you’d go to your local carpenter. Today, you’re more likely to buy a chair that’s made of Brazilian wood, designed by a Swede, and manufactured in China than one with even a single locally-produced nail ...

Geotectura's ZeroHome turns waste into shelter, Tue, Mar 22 '16

ZeroHome, a project by the Tel Aviv-based studio Geotectura, is a house built entirely from waste – but you wouldn’t necessarily suspect it from looking at its sharp, angular form.

Architecture after capitalism, in a world without work, Fri, Mar 18 '16

“A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells,” writes Karl Marx in Das Kapital, likely the most direct invocation of architecture in his influential, and controversial, writings. “But what ...

Timothy Morton on haunted architecture, dark ecology, and other objects, Fri, Mar 11 '16

“How you design a building directly is ecological awareness,” states Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. “And your design is a game that will inculcate all kinds of ecological awareness. So realize that and act accordingly...”

Working Out of the Box: Jader Almeida , Wed, Mar 2 '16

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.In this installment, we're talking with Jader Almeida, a Brazilian furniture and product designer.Are you an architect working out of the ...

A sheet of plastic, a few screws, and five minutes are all it takes to assemble one of these "darling" stackable chairs, Tue, Mar 1 '16

IKEA may be the main peddler of assemble-it-yourself furniture, but, as many disgruntled college students would attest, their designs are often less-than-easy to realize. The "Thermoplastic Darling Stackable Chair", on the other hand, requires just one sheet of pre-scored polypropylene ...

Innovation with a heart: Guto Requena's technological and emotional designs, Sat, Feb 27 '16

Imagine “technology". What comes to mind? A robot? An iPhone? A self-driving car? Whatever the case, chances are it’s an object that feels pretty cold and provokes little emotion.

Between art and design: rethinking function with Hand Job Gallery Store, Tue, Feb 23 '16

Google “art vs design” and you’ll find a slew of fairly common sense diagrams and articles. “Good art is a talent”, stipulates one, while “good design is a skill”. Or, similarly, “good art is interpreted”, whereas “good design is understood”. My favorite includes two ...

Screen/Print #40: Alexandra Lange's "Power Positions" from Dirty Furniture, issue #2, Wed, Feb 17 '16

In the high-gloss landscape of design magazines, all tables have been wiped clean. But in practice, things get messy: our desks are cluttered, our kitchens are flecked with sauce, our careers take form or falter as we finger the seams in the Formica. In this issue of Dirty Furniture, the second in ...

Waka Waka's furniture strikes a balance between simplicity and playfulness, Mon, Feb 8 '16

Waka Waka is a Los Angeles-based design studio founded by the Japanese-born designer Shinichiro Okuda. Taking a minimal approach softened with a bit of humor, the studio’s striking, handmade plywood furniture has a distinct and contemporary look.

A misting mirror, a chair that shoots fireworks, and other material experiments by Soft Baroque, Wed, Feb 3 '16

Soft Baroque, the London-based design studio founded by Saša Štucin and Nicholas Gardner, has made pretty significant ripples in the design world for a practice just barely two years old. Their strange but visually-delightful furniture functions both online and offline, incorporates ...

This augmented reality helmet could revolutionize the construction site, Tue, Jan 26 '16

Decades of sci-fi movies have made it hard to imagine a future without augmented reality. Yet besides the largely fizzled-out promise of Google Glass, little headway seems to have been made integrating digitally-enhanced vision into everyday life. That might be about to change, at least according ...

Rendered reality: the VR journalism of Emblematic Group, Mon, Jan 25 '16

“We took all the 911 phone calls – because this is all we know, I mean everyone is conjecturing and everything, but this is all we know – and we animated them,” explained Michael Licht, co-founder and executive producer for the Emblematic Group, sitting in his Santa Monica ...

Designing for horses with history: the new stables of Dyrehaven park by Bertelsen & Scheving, Wed, Jan 20 '16

Just to the north of Copenhagen, the Dyrehaven – “deer park” – shelters exactly what its name suggests: sizeable populations of red and fallow deer who roam freely across its 4.2 square miles of ancient oaks. Alongside its namesake animal population, the park is also ...

Aravena's Pritzker: A Critical Round-Up, Thu, Jan 14 '16

What to make of this year’s Pritzker Prize awarding? With today’s announcement, the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has secured his place within the upper echelon of the architecture community. In fact, 2016 is shaping up to be his big year: he’s curating this summer’s ...

Screen/Print #39: "Pleasure" from PennDesign's LA+, Thu, Jan 7 '16

In an era marked by ecological crisis, the figure of the landscape architect can assume an austere, if not downright sanctimonious, stance. Like some contemporary prophet, the landscape architect calls for repentance, moderation, and preparation – a voice in the wilderness of our apparently ...

Towards a decentralized architecture with FOAM + the Blockchain , Wed, Dec 9 '15

Decentralized computation, virtual machines, cryptocurrencies: these terms seem to linger in shadows, conjuring abstract images of the “dark” web that lurks beneath the glossy surface of the screen. Architecture may be becoming “smart,” but we still perceive its domain to ...

Ways of Seeing in the Anthropocene: Review of "The Geological Imagination" and "The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform", Thu, Dec 3 '15

Jim Inhofe, the senior Senator from Oklahoma, resumed chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in early 2015, following an eight year hiatus. Shortly after, he stood on the Senate floor holding a snowball sealed in a plastic bag. "In case we have forgotten, because ...

Art + Architecture: Swipes and Changeups with Mike Nesbit, Wed, Nov 25 '15

"I'm always looking at things and taking them at face value," said Mike Nesbit, a Los Angeles-based architect and artist, as he leaned over the table and grabbed an empty glass to use as illustration. He turned the glass over in his hands several times causing the reflection of an overhead light ...

And the winners of Archinect's Dry Futures competition, "Speculative" category, are..., Wed, Sep 16 '15

Even with an epic El Niño expected to appear on the horizon, California remains locked in its severe and historic drought. But while water may be scarce in the country's largest economy, provocative and thoughtful submissions to Archinect's Dry Futures competition weren't.

Architecture at the limits of instability: an interview with Smiljan Radić, Thu, Aug 20 '15

We’re perched high above Santiago de Chile in an unassuming meeting room, near the top of a nondescript office tower at the base of the famous San Cristóbal hill. Visually-speaking, we’re as far away from the architecture of Smiljan Radić as possible. There are no boulders or ...

As COSMO gets ready to 'Warm Up,' we sit down with Andrés Jaque of the Office for Political Innovation, Sun, Jun 21 '15

This Tuesday, the eagerly-awaited, annual Warm Up series of concerts and events will launch beneath the orbicular forms of COSMO, the winning entry of this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architect’s Program competition. Designed by Andrés Jacque / the Office for Political ...

One-Night Stand LA titillates, but leaves you wanting more, Sat, May 23 '15

For an event modeled after that type of sexual encounter usually associated with spontaneity and non-commitment, there sure was a lot of hype leading up to "A One-Night Stand for Art and Architecture" (One-Night Stand LA). On Instagram and IRL, a veritable fury of buzz surrounded ...

Art + Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis between the monumental and the particular, Tue, May 12 '15

Buoyantly imaginative yet grounded by a commitment to sociopolitical realism, the work of the Greek-born architect Andreas Angelidakis defies categorization. In fact, while he was trained as an architect at SCI-Arc, Angelidakis' work is perhaps better known in contemporary art circles ...

Architecture of the Anthropocene, Pt. 3: Getting Lost in the Ozone, Thu, May 7 '15

This is the third installment of the recurring feature Architecture of the Anthropocene, which explores the implications of the Anthropocene thesis for architecture. The Anthropocene is a contested name for "the era of geological time during which human activity is considered ...

Between Sampling and Dowsing: Field Notes from GRNASFCK, Thu, Apr 30 '15

In case the name didn’t tip you off, let it be said that GRNASFCK is not your average landscape architecture studio. Whether producing disjointed travelogues in Celebration, Florida or organizing rallies for extremophile bacteria in San Francisco, GRNASFCK operates almost like an industrial ...

Ghosts of Schindler's past haunt Renee Green's MAK Center exhibition, Tue, Mar 24 '15

Where does an encounter with a work of architecture begin? There is the building as it first emerges on the horizon. Then the series of connected moments as you approach, that, like in a film, change according to variables of speed and distance, of the position of the subject in relation to the ...

Art + Architecture: The Los Angeles Nomadic Division Sets Up Camp, Fri, Mar 13 '15

"The easiest way to grasp what we do and to understand our mission is that we're a contemporary art museum without walls," explained Laura Hyatt, development director of the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), an LA-based organization dedicated to facilitating public art projects ...

The State of Debt and the Price of Architecture #2, Fri, Jan 16 '15

Do you know anyone who is not a debtor, at least in some sense? The idea is practically unthinkable. To participate in modern life, one must take on debt: credit cards, housing loans, medical bills, education. Even cash is a form of debt, albeit normalized to the point that we no longer think of ...

White Space: The Architecture of the Art Fair, Tue, Jan 13 '15

In his 1942 short story “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges describes a universe consisting of a potentially infinite library of adjacent hexagonal rooms. Convinced that the library contains every imaginable ordering of twenty-five orthographic symbols, the inhabitants of this ...

Architecture of the Anthropocene, Pt. 2: Haunted Houses, Living Buildings, and Other Horror Stories, Tue, Nov 25 '14

In horror fiction, a house is usually haunted in one of two ways: either a building is inhabited by the ghosts of dead humans, or the structure itself is animated by a strange, non-human life. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” an influential ...

Art + Architecture: Refik Anadol at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Fri, Nov 21 '14

The billowing wood panels of the concert hall imploded before my eyes, as if physically ripped apart by the thundering crescendos of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques. One moment the massive organ was radically disfigured to the point of unrecognizability; the next, its forms re-emerged beneath ...

The State of Debt and the Price of Architecture, Mon, Nov 3 '14

In the United States, around 40 million people currently hold student debt. This is a population that is greater than that of many countries. While, over the last 14 years, the average salary for young people has decreased by 10%, student debt has increased by nearly 500%.  For most ...

Zaha Hadid Keeps it Light at ACADIA 2014 Conference, Fri, Oct 31 '14

If you didn’t know better, it would be easy to mistake the eager faces populating the swarming mass of ticket lines outside of Bovard Auditorium at USC as the fans of a pop icon instead of the prolific, controversial ‘starchitect’ Zaha Hadid. Behind us, students were being interviewed by ...

Art + Architecture: Felix Melia and Josh Bitelli in the Gaps Between Buildings, Fri, Oct 17 '14

Felix Melia and Josh Bitelli are artists who live and work in London. We met last year and have remained in contact through email since then, exchanging periodic updates and continuing our fragmentary, rambling conversations over shared interests (and confusions) regarding the contemporary urban ...

Architecture of the Anthropocene, Part 1, Mon, Sep 29 '14

“Hurricane Kyle is tracking way off shore, but still Miami South Beach is underwater,” reports Sam Champion of the Weather Channel beneath a shifting, computer-generated dome. On the ground, storm tracker Jim Cantore, with the aid of a hovering drone, analyzes the surging tides that have ...

Factory Berlin, a New Tech Incubator, Emerges from the Ruins of the Berlin Wall, Mon, Sep 15 '14

The archives of the New York Times testify to the euphoria that accompanied the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989. An article entitled “The End of the War to End Wars” reads: “Crowds of young Germans danced on top of the hated Berlin wall Thursday night. They danced for ...

Water Wars: the Islamic State and the Mosul Dam, Thu, Aug 28 '14

Water has become a central focus for both the Islamic State and its combatants in the current struggle being waged over the large geographic area of northern Iraq and southern Syria. Previously overshadowed by the conflicts in Gaza and Crimea, the rapid emergence and expansion of the Islamic ...

Art + Architecture: Bruno Zhu in a Symphony of Objects, Tue, Aug 19 '14

Bruno Zhu’s work, contained in self-published books but also posted on social media sites like Tumblr and Instagram, captures accidental sculptures and fleeting moments as he wanders cities. Instead of vast landscapes, urban environments are portrayed through intimate encounters with ...

Shitting Architecture: the dirty practice of waste removal, Wed, Aug 13 '14

In a recent episode of the Comedy Central show Broad City, protagonists Ilana and Abbi find themselves the inadvertent hosts of a hurricane party. Since the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, such impromptu events – a tradition in the American South in which people who cannot (or will not) ...

Architectures of the Disaster, Wed, Jul 30 '14

45.2 million people are currently displaced by conflict and persecution, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The number accords with the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees articulation of a refugee as: an individual who has fled their country ...

Art + Architecture: an interview with Lagos documentary filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak, Wed, Jul 16 '14

Several weeks ago, we featured Bregtje van der Haak's interactive documentary, Lagos Close and Wide: an Interactive Journey into an Exploding City, originally released as a DVD in 2004 and now available online. The project emerged from van der Haak's 2001 trip to ...

Art + Architecture: Schumacher vs. Post-Net, Wed, Jul 9 '14

In some architecture circles, hating on Patrik Shumacher’s “parametricism” is like hating on Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”. It signals a basic shared understanding that, among many other things, artistic professions are not removed from politics, that their ...