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 […]

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 […]

Helmut Jahn on the Ethos of Mansueto Library

Architect Helmut Jahn explains how his aesthetic choices for the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library reflect the University of Chicago’s guiding ideals of inquiry and knowledge. by The University of Chicago Video by Tom Rossiter; interview by Carment Marti; editing by Mark Lofgren; original music by Jim Tullio; sound recording by Mick Clemente; video assistance by […]

Light, architecture and health

En sansefilm om “lys, arkitektur og sundhed”. Filmen bruger hurtig fremvisning af lys og arkitektur igennem dag og år for de forskellige verdenshjørner. Filmen er et – anderledes – formidlingsprojekt af forskningen fra arkitektskolen Aarhus. I dette tilfælde er udgangspunktet for filmen Carlo Volfs ph.d.-afhandling “Lys, arkitektur og sundhed”.

Interview with Francine Houben – Mecanoo

Floornature meets Francine Houben, leader of the Dutch group Mecanoo: an opportunity to discuss the architect’s role in urban development policy and the evolution of the contemporary city, increasingly divided between local and global culture. by Floornature Architecture

Library of Birmingham by Mecanoo architects

The largest public library in the UK and a major new cultural destination, the £188 million Library of Birmingham is seen by Birmingham City Council as a flagship project for the redevelopment of the city and looks set to become a model for the future. Central to the design of this iconic, highly transparent glass […]

Diy designer

Building a diy designer greenhouse in 5 minutes by garryentropy

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Tomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities

Opening of the exhibition Cloud Cities by artist Tomas Saraceno at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fuer Gegenwart in Berlin. Video by Astrid Gleichmann.   post by VernissageTV

Norman Foster – Sustainability and Architecture

‘Sustainability and Architecture’ with Herbert Girardet, Director of Programmes for the World Future Council and Stefan Behling, senior partner at Foster + Partners and Professor of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart.   post by ivorypress

Historic film Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1985)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 19, 1969) was a German-American architect.[1] He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname. He served as the last director of Berlin’s Bauhaus, and then headed the department of architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, […]

Artist Egill Sæbjörnsson at his studio in Berlin and the Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen

Icelandic artist Egill Sæbjörnsson talks about his practice and new work “Brick Is The Key” (2013) for Streaming Museum’s NORDIC OUTBREAK.   post by StreamingMuseum   This site-specific video-mapping installation with sound was commissioned by Streaming Museum and Danish Architecture Center and opened at the Danish Architecture Center on October 10, 2013. Video by Rebekka Elisabeth […]