On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home, studio and school in Spring Green, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present a major exhibition offering a fresh perspective on celebrated architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright’s seven-decade career. The exhibition will run from February 12 through May 15, 2011. Frank […]
Designs for the Zayed National Museum have been officially unveiled by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, […]
REDCAT presents Decolonizing Architecture, open December 7, 2010 – February 6, 2011. The Red Castle and the Lawless Line,” 2010. Photo by Amina Bech. Courtesy of Decolonizing Architecture. Initiated by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman in 2007, Decolonizing Architecture is a project set up as a research studio and residency program in Beit […]
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winners of the prestigious RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2010 in association with Atkins. Jonathan Schofield, from the University of Westminster, won the Silver Medal for his project Creative Evolution – Silvertown Ship Breaking Yard and Jack Hudspith from the Mackintosh School of Architecture (Glasgow […]
The exhibition will explore the sketches, drawings, and musical scores of Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001), one of the most important figures in late twentieth-century music. Xenakis originally trained as an engineer and was also known as an architect, developing iconic designs while working with Le Corbusier in the 1950s. A contemporary of fellow avant-garde composers, including […]
ecosistema urbano’s name is program: Their projects combine architecture, urbanism, engineering and sociology to strive for a ‘creative urban sustainability’. The focus of their work is on the complex phenomenon of the city, which they react to (or activate) through innovative, creative and holistic interventions. The interdisciplinary office from Madrid is an international consultant on […]
The exhibition, Discords: Norwegian Architecture 1945–65 at The National Museum, open 14. November–03. April 2011 throws light on neglected aspects of post-war modernism in Norwegian architecture, adding detail to earlier accounts. It concentrates on the growth of discord among competing architectural ideologies among different generations and circles, and on the influences that came from international […]
The Yale Center for British Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (CCA), have co-produced the first ever exhibition of the archive of British architect, Yale School of Architecture professor, and Pritzker Prize laureate James Stirling (1924 – 1992). The exhibition, Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, is on view […]
The AWARD CEREMONY takes place at the audience hall of the Federal Ministry in Vienna Minoritenplatz 5, 1010 Vienna on October 18, 2010 at 5 p.m. For the first time, the international panel of judges is awarding the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize to an Austrian artist. Heimo Zobernig follows Frank O. Ghery, Judith Barry, Cedric […]
