Award-winning architecture practice Sheppard Robson has awarded two £500 prizes, for the Best Part 2 student project and Best Part 1 Project, to students at Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh School of Architecture end of year show. The firm’s £1000 sponsorship of [Read More]
Architecture
Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Building the Revolution Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935, an exhibition on view 5 April to 9 July 2012. The Exhibition “Architects of Revolution” sheds light on an area of the Soviet avant-garde that has remained relatively unknown in Europe and [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Foreclosed. Rehousing the American Dream, an exhibition on view through July 30, 2012, in the The Robert Menschel Architecture and Design Gallery. Architectural model for Studio Gang Architects The Garden in the Machine project for Cicero, [Read More]
Despite increased recognition of the cultural significance of modern architecture, there is still a dearth of information on how best to conserve it. The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles today announced a new international effort, the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative, [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Skyscraper. Art and Architecture Against Gravity, an exhibition on view Jun 30–Sep 23, 2012 Michael Wolf Transparent City #6, 2007 Chromogenic print 62 x 48 in. (157.5 x 121.9 cm) Edition of 9, plus 2 [Read More]
New York-In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair: SOFA NEW YORK, renowned New York architect David Ling will transform the Park Avenue Armory into a veritable work of art for an event that itself overflows [Read More]
Valencian Institute for Modern Art presents Living in Architecture. A-cero. Joaquin Torres & Javier Llamazares, an exhibition on view Feb 10 – Jun 10, 2012. Vivir en la arquitectura. A-cero: Joaquín Torres y Rafael Llamazares (Living in Architecture. A-cero: Joaquín Torres and [Read More]
After two years of the monument renewal and restoration the Tugendhat House will be open to the public again on 3rd March 2012. The booking system for visitors will be launched at www.tugendhat.eu in January 2012. Villa Tugendhat 2011, photograph: Marie Schmerková [Read More]
The Kunstmuseum Basel is planning a new extension to the museum providing urgently needed space for special exhibitions. Kunstmuseum Basel New Extension It will also enable the museum to present valuable works from the public art collection in a contemporary setting. From [Read More]
Matthew Marks announces the opening of his new gallery in Los Angeles. The first exhibition in the gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles, opens to the public on January 20, 2012. Located in West Hollywood, the gallery is a newly constructed freestanding building [Read More]
THe MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents Envisioning Buildings. reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography on view 28 January–22 April 2012. Tobias Zielony, “Vela Azzurra,” 2010. From the series Vele, 2009–2010. © Tobias Zielony / courtesy Tobias Zielony and KOW Berlin [Read More]
The Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Geneva (FMAC) is launching a call for applications to create an artistic work in the context of the construction of a school and public complex comprising a school, with a gymnastics room and a [Read More]
The British Council announced that the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale will be the culmination of an ambitious global research project designed to make an original and far-reaching contribution to the debate about architecture in the UK. The Pavilion [Read More]
The new Frank Lloyd Wright – Fallingwater mobile app by Planet Architecture features an intuitive interface which presents an extensive collection of photographs,virtual reality panoramas, drawings, renderings, and animations. From the time Fallingwater was featured on the cover of Times Magazine in [Read More]