The Manifold Transparencies of Virgil Abloh, Fri, Jun 28 '19

Archinect has published news posts about fashion designer, artist and Louis Vuitton director Virgil Abloh in the last year, but only to announce any time that he had collaborated with an architect or an architectural theorist. What we had never mentioned, however, is that Abloh is himself trained ...

Understanding and Combating an Architecture of Neo-Fascism, Tue, Jun 25 '19

Fascist ideologies have recently taken center stage for the first time in the 21st century, and it has since been up to a media-saturated public to make sense of what appears to be an international phenomenon.  Whether as a space of gathering, protection, or protest, it is important to ...

Generating Bias in Architectural Design with Stanislas Chaillou, Fri, Jun 7 '19

Thesis Review is a collection of conversations, statements and inquiries into the current state of thesis in academia. Thesis projects give a glimpse into the current state of the academic arena while painting a picture for the future of practice.  Each feature will present a ...

Building Trust as an Attentive Firm with Fleetwood Fernandez Architects, Wed, Jun 5 '19

Trust between an architecture firm and its clients is as important as it is difficult to foster. As the founders of Fleetwood Fernandez Architects can attest, one method of establishing trust is to keep their firm small, allowing their relationships with select clients to become familiar and ...

New Book Looks at the Last 60 Years of Work by Ricardo Bofill Taller De Arquitectura, Mon, Jun 3 '19

In light of the ‘rediscovery’ of Ricardo Bofill’s work in the era of social media, it was a brilliant move by Gestalten - a publishing house firmly committed to the coffee table book genre, with titles including Northern Comfort: the Nordic Art of Creative Living and Bohemian Residence ...

Baseball's Rightful Place in Architecture History: A Review of Goldberger's New Book "Ballpark", Wed, May 22 '19

The ballpark building type has been overlooked from accounts of modern architecture history by its most prolific writers. With Ballpark, Paul Goldberger's treatise on the architectural history of ballpark design, he succeeds in assuring his reader that the building type is as worthy of ...

Thoughts on Eric Owen Moss' Gated Gateway Tower, Sun, May 19 '19

Some rumors suggest Samitaur Tower, a project completed by Eric Owen Moss, will open in relation to some milestone for the adjacent public transportation system; others claim it is condemned for exceeding the maximum allowable height according to Culver City’s Zoning Charter. But it is more ...

Behind the Scenes of Coachella's Colossal Cacti with Andrew Kovacs, Fri, Apr 19 '19

As long as it has been known as a world-class music festival, Coachella has also been dedicated to the installation of artwork at the scale of architecture. This year, artists and architects including Francis Kéré, Peggy Noland and Dedo Vabo boasted impressive works during the festival. But ...

Slow Reasoning for Fast Times: A Review of "New Investigations in Collective Form," The Open Workshop's Newest Monograph, Thu, Apr 18 '19

New Investigations in Collective Form, the newest monograph for The Open Workshop, is a timely book at a moment which feels short on time. Our best plans for combating the challenges facing the built environment will not come from the fixity nor the haste of any independent practice, but ...

The Staging of Healthy Living: a Review of Beatriz Colomina's X-Ray Architecture, Fri, Apr 12 '19

In her newest book, X-Ray Architecture, the theorist Beatriz Colomina bypasses the clichéd analogies made between buildings and the human body to develop a persuasive and wholly original take on the origins of modern architecture. Recently released by Lars Müller Publishers, X-Ray ...

Finding the Artful in Artless Spaces: A Review of Thomas Demand's 'The Complete Papers', Tue, Mar 26 '19

Weighing in at over 6 pounds, the breadth of work and reference material makes The Complete Papers, the newest and most comprehensive book from the artist Thomas Demand, an indispensable resource for anyone invested in art, architecture or media theory. The catalogue raisonné compiles ...

The Technological Sublime of Non-Human Spaces: A Review of Liam Young's "Machines Landscapes", Wed, Mar 20 '19

A significant number of buildings around the world are deliberately uninhabitable by humans. They are, however, designed absolutely towards the service of human needs. The unusual conditions of these buildings, including those of telecommunications networks, automated agriculture and data centers ...

The Candid Musings of a Seasoned Observer: A review of Craig Hodgetts' 'Swimming to Suburbia', Wed, Mar 13 '19

In his collected book of essays, Swimming to Utopia, Craig Hodgetts appears to be a proud writer, though his career never seems to have depended on it. Throughout the book one finds writing written purely for the thrill of it, and that is precisely why it is arguably more pleasurable than so ...

Meet Lydia Kallipoliti, Author of "The Architecture of Closed Worlds" and Special Guest at Archinect Outpost, Tue, Mar 5 '19

You may have seen our review of Lydia Kallipoliti's book, The Architecture of Closed Worlds, or you may be planning to attend our event for the book tomorrow featuring Kallipoliti and Lars Müller, the publisher of her book, but you may not have known about her work and research that led ...

37 Fearless Moments of Modern History: A Review of ‘The Architecture of Closed Worlds’, Wed, Feb 27 '19

The 37 prototypes in Lydia Kallipoliti's The Architecture of Closed Worlds reveal the 20th century’s nebulous relationship with science, ecology and architecture in a way that helps make sense of that landmark era. Their presentation in a single publication also doubles ...

The Propping of Art and Architecture: a Review of the Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles, Tue, Feb 26 '19

The inaugural Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles, held on the famed Paramount Studios Lot, proved to be a success in numbers and figures. But what did the event suggest about the current states of art and architecture, and what did it suggest about the future of cultural events in the city often ...

Screen/Print #70: Jack Self Revisits Biosphere II, the Most Infamous Earth Science Experiment in History, Thu, Jan 31 '19

The newest issue of MacGuffin Magazine, "The Ball," collects stories that appear disparate but for their fixation on the consolidating properties of the circular object (whether as the globe, the sphere, or the minimal-surface enclosure). 

Finally(!), an Architectural Reference Book with Intention: A Review of 'An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture', Tue, Jan 29 '19

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture, by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS, might be exactly the update needed for the architectural reference book genre.

Navigating Memes, Selfies and the Post-Digital Landscape with Mackenzie Muhonen, Thu, Jan 24 '19

Thesis Review is a collection of conversations, statements and inquiries into the current state of thesis in academia. Thesis projects give a glimpse into the current state of the academic arena while painting a picture for the future of practice.  Each feature will present a ...

#ArchinectMeets @shesthearchitect, Fri, Jan 11 '19

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

A History of the Garage Without a Footnote: a Review of Erlanger’s and Govela’s ‘Garage’, Thu, Jan 10 '19

“We have taken the garage to be the most important architectural form of the 20th century.” This is the provocation that drew me in and inspired me to consider each and every subsequent one offered by artist Olivia Erlanger and architect Luis Ortega Govela. ‘Garage’ has a lot of arguments ...

#ArchinectMeets @hannespeer, Fri, Dec 28 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

Architecture in a Country of Stage Sets: Our Interview with Oliver Wainwright on Inside North Korea, Fri, Dec 21 '18

Now available at Archinect Outpost, Inside North Korea is the ambitious new book from British journalist Oliver Wainwright. I spoke to Wainwright about the making of the book and how he extended his journalistic talents to become its principal photographer. Though North Korea had long been a ...

#ArchinectMeets @decorhardcore, Fri, Dec 21 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @mmmosarchitects, Tue, Dec 18 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @spomenikdatabase, Fri, Dec 14 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @lucborho, Tue, Dec 11 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @nemestudio, Fri, Dec 7 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

Screen/Print #68: Phillip Denny Contemplates the Information Overload of Instagram, Thu, Dec 6 '18

The newest issue of PLAT Journal, "7.0: Sharing," concerns the nature of contemporary sharing that proceeds today with fervor, given the prevalence of social media and screen technologies. 

#ArchinectMeets @modarchitecture, Tue, Dec 4 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @manvisual, Fri, Nov 30 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @zhestkov, Tue, Nov 27 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @chatelp, Tue, Nov 20 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @phdonohue, Fri, Nov 16 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

The Yves Béhar-Designed ADU and the Complicated Altruism of the “Fully-Customizable Prefab”, Tue, Nov 13 '18

My invitation to interview industrial designer Yves Béhar about his first step into architecture, an immaculately designed Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), brought me to a design festival of unprecedented scale and wealth. Held in the historic core of Downtown Los Angeles - a neighborhood ...

#ArchinectMeets @town.and.concrete, Tue, Nov 13 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @krisprovoost , Fri, Nov 9 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @daniellaondesign, Tue, Nov 6 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @newagecocaine, Fri, Nov 2 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @l_o00o_l, Tue, Oct 30 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @adamnathanielfurman, Fri, Oct 26 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

"Do you think in RGB or CMYK?" – A Look at What Goes Into the Production of Project Journal, Thu, Oct 25 '18

Redlines is a collection of interviews with editors that make today's most provocative architectural publications come to life. While architecture is traditionally concerned with buildings, materials, and scale, their importance and historical impact are recorded through words ...

#ArchinectMeets @shitgardens, Tue, Oct 23 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @stoptheroc, Fri, Oct 19 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @serjios, Tue, Oct 16 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @the_architecture_photographer, Fri, Oct 12 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @casualtimetravel, Tue, Oct 9 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @joaocarlostalves, Fri, Oct 5 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @collpol19, Tue, Oct 2 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @__benthomas, Thu, Sep 27 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @sssscavvvv, Tue, Sep 25 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @terriblefloorplans, Fri, Sep 21 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

A Victory Under The Sun Must Also Be Against It, Wed, Sep 19 '18

Imitative solar panels - designed by companies including Sistine Solar and Tesla - call into question the relationship between infrastructural aesthetics and the urgent need to conserve material resources in the current climate. Can conservation really only be sold in a dress? Is the ...

#ArchinectMeets @lerichti, Tue, Sep 18 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

#ArchinectMeets @archiveofaffinities, Thu, Sep 13 '18

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has ...

As Incoming Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning of Cornell University, Meejin Yoon Shares Her Insights From Her Own Experience as an Architecture Student, Tue, Sep 11 '18

At the beginning of the upcoming Spring semester, Meejin Yoon is the newly minted dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning of Cornell University. According to the Cornell Chronicle, Yoon is the first woman named to the position since the college was formed in 1896.

The Venice Biennale Swamp Pavilion, Part II: Futurity Island, Tue, Sep 4 '18

Earlier this month, we featured the first week of events from the Venice Biennale's Swamp School: Swamp Radio, a series of acoustic space explorations, radio experiments, environmental sound recordings and data sonification.  Futurity Island, the Swamp School's second week of events, was ...

The Archinect Outpost Guide to the Los Angeles Arts District, Tue, Aug 21 '18

The Arts District holds special significance in Los Angeles. From its origins as a vineyard to a twice-dilapidated blight on the city, the Arts District is now the home of SCI-Arc, Hauser & Wirth and the locally beloved Bread Lounge.  The Archinect Outpost - our retail initiative featuring ...

The Venice Biennale Swamp Pavilion, Part I: Swamp Radio, Wed, Aug 15 '18

Though Venice has been the home of the eponymous Biennale since 1895 and the site of Western trade since roughly 400 AD, its longer history as a swamp is often overlooked. Its parcel of land and sea in Northeast Italy is notably hot, humid and rife with mosquitos, and has been since time ...