Asif Khan at Dezeen Live

In this movie filmed during Dezeen Live at 100% Design, designer Asif Khan explains how soap bubbles, rubbish bins and a neighbour’s flower bed have all provided inspiration for his work. Khan begins by showing the first of five images, a composite of pictures including amusing signage at an east London market and a vapour trail […]

Hancock Tower

The Hancock Tower is one wicked Boston landmark AIANational

Postindustrial Landscapes

Architectural Association Visiting School conducts workshop at the Academy of Art University’s School of Architecture exploring Postindustrial Landscapes. During this 10 day intensive workshop, students and instructors designed a flying object with remote censoring to experience an elevated space. AcademyofArtU

Alvar Aalto at Vitra Design Museum / Introduction

The Alvar Aalto retrospective at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein provides an extensive overview of Alvar Aalto’s life and work. Entitled Second Nature, the exhibition presents historical architectural models, original drawings, furniture, lights and glassware, as well as works by other acclaimed artists like Alexander Calder or Jean Arp. The exhibition is […]

New Nato Headquarters: Interview with lead architect

Jo Palma from SOM Architects in London Lead architect on the new NATO headquarters in Brussels discusses the ideas behind the design of the building by gleedstv

SIFT Studio: League Prize Interview

Through his Ann Arbor design practice, SIFT Studio, Adam Fure works to enliven “old substances through new treatments; composing new aesthetic mixtures from the matter at [one’s] fingertips.” Through these experiments, SIFT Studio “promotes architecture’s unique capacity to shape experience, which is neither essentialized nor thought to be static and singular.” SIFT Studio is one […]

Architects Explain the Appeal of Portland, Ore. (3 videos)

Recent development in the city has emphasized the success of all neighborhoods through strategic design and connections. (by Architect Magazine) by Architect Magazine

Erwin Wurm Retrospective at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Erwin Wurm Retrospective at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Full-length, remastered version of VernissageTV’s 2007 video: With more than 400 drawings, videos, photographs, and sculptures, the Erwin Wurm retrospective at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Germany shows the most expansive show of the artist’s work to date. “Particularly for the Deichtorhallen Erwin Wurm created a spectacular new work, which […]

The pavilion of Bahrain at 14th Biennale di Venezia

Conversation between the co-curator of the Bahrain pavilion at the 14th architecture biennale 2014, George Arbid, and A. Giacumacatos from GreekArchitects.gr by GreekArchitects.gr George Arbid is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut. He received his Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and his […]

“REBEL ARCHITECTURE” DOCUMENTARY ON ARCHITECTURAL ACTIVISM

Al Jazeera has launched Rebel Architecture, a six-part documentary that profiles lesser-known architects who are using their design skills “as a form of activism resistance to tackle the world’s urban, environmental and social crises.” These designers aren’t building glass towers for the global elite, but schools, cultural spaces, and homes for everyone else. And they’re […]

Julia Morgan’s AIA Gold Medal

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) annual convention and business meeting in Chicago, taking place June 26 to the 28th, broke new ground, in particular with women in architecture. For the first time ever, the highest honor of the Institute – the AIA Gold Medal – was awarded to a woman, and the Beverly Willis […]

SOM Interview at ARCHITECT Live

ARCHITECT senior editor Katie Gerfen talks to Ellen Lou and John Lund Kriken of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill about the Nanhu Village Master Plan.By Kaitlyn Rossi by architectmagazine.com