SALT Galata presents Trespassing Modernities on view May 8–August 11, 2013 SALT Galata. Almost 25 years after the corrosion of the Soviet Union, still little is known about the social fabric that wove it together. Architecture and urbanism have been one of its strongest warps: creating a feeling of social unity and being one of […]
Close, Closer, the third Lisbon Architecture Triennale, will open 12 September 2013. Three major exhibitions, two competitions, a public programmme and a series of associated projects will exhibit an expanded field of contemporary architecture. Graphic Design: Zak Group. Public statements from Close, Closer visual identity (left to right) M Pestana (16.01.13); Jonathan Hagos (12.10.12); Joel […]
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University is architect Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, and one of the last to be completed during his lifetime. In 2013, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. Exhibition model + […]
A multi-disciplinary, practice-led investigation into the frontier of architecture, art and politics. One of a portfolio of innovative MA programmes in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, including Contemporary Art Theory, Global Arts, and Aural and Visual Cultures. The Centre for Research Architecture offers graduate students the opportunity to work at […]
This year the highly renowned award—bestowed “for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture and the arts that conform to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental, innovative conceptions and his theory of correlated arts”—will be presented by the Vienna City Councillor for Cultural Affairs, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, on the 15th of November 2012 at the New Museum in New […]
The Sainsbury Laboratory, a major new plant science research centre in Cambridge by architects Stanton Williams, has won the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize 2012 for the best building of the year. Sainsbury Laboratory. ©Hufton+Crow. Now in its 17th year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize, awarded to the architects of […]
Guggenheim Bilbao opens Inhabited Architecture a new exhibition of works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection that engages in a reflection on the concept of architecture and its ability to suggest a past or present created by us and our relationships with others. On view September 20, 2012–May 19, 2013. In this context, architecture is […]
On view in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini through November 25, 2012 This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale includes a major project developed by architect and Yale School of Architecture Professor Peter Eisenman. Titled The Piranesi Variations, this multipart endeavor focuses on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma, a folio of six etchings […]
Organized by Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the Urbanism Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB) promotional event will be held right after the opening events of the Hong Kong Exhibition at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy, August 27th, 2012). Organizer committees from both sides will present the new epoch: “Common Title, Common Statement, Common Theme […]
Lisbon Ground is the exhibition that will represent Portugal at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Open 29 August–25 November 2012 . It is a project conceived and developed by the architect Inês Lobo as designated curator by the Portuguese Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes), which is a response to the […]
Neutra VDL Research House in Los Angeles presents Architectones, an installation by artist Xavier Veilhan, on view August 9 – September 16, 2012. Veilhan has created a new body of work specifically for the Modernist house Richard Neutra designed for his family and architectural practice. Consisting of monochrome interventions, the exhibition features sculptures throughout the […]
The J. Paul Leonard Library and Sutro* Library at San Francisco State University received an Honor Award in the Rehabilitation / Renovation / Restoration category from the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) in their annual national Design-Build Award Competition. Balfour Beatty Construction teamed with HMC Architects on the renovation and expansion of the 362,500 […]
