“When I Said Architects Should Get Involved In Humanitarian Issues, People Laughed At Me”
Exclusive interview: Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair describes the work he is conducting in Syria with his latest venture, and tells Dezeen that he’ll “die happy” knowing that he
L.A.’s Architecture + Design Museum Rethinks Housing
For the first exhibition in its newly minted facility, A+D commissions architects to propose new ways to shelter the city.
Beyer Blinder Belle Restoring Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Building For 2016 Reopening Under The Metropolitan Museum
The Met Breuer will throw open its doors in March 2016 for the first season of contemporary art programming under the banner of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Breuer’s iconic building,
“Postmodernism Will Not Be Forgiven Lightly For What It Did To Architectural Culture”
Pomo summer: Postmodernism is still shaping contemporary architecture, says Owen Hatherley, but its impact on social housing is an unforgivable legacy.
Architecture’s King of Tradition
Robert A. M. Stern sees himself as a vessel for old principles of American urbanism in a field too often swept up by novelty.
I See Connections in the Night Sky Over the Clown Car
Sometimes news stories seem to circle around each other. Or maybe I am just looking to link unrelated stars. Sexual identity and consent have been in the news in all
The Finnish Touch: Contemporary Architecture From Finland
Last weekend, August 7–9, the 13th triennial Alvar Aalto Symposium took place in the Finnish architect’s hometown of Jyväskylä, a few hours north of Helsinki. Founded in 1979, the event
In Japan, History Has No Place
Despite its reverence for tradition, Japan has an ambivalent — and unsentimental — relationship with its Modernist architecture. Why preparing for the future sometimes means destroying the past.
Dominique (1908 – 1997) and John de Menil (1904 – 1973)
She tried to find the connections linking art and the divine.
Q+A: Charles Birnbaum, President and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The founder of the Washington, D.C.–based foundation discusses the ongoing design competition for a new World War I memorial at the existing Pershing Park, and how the submissions threaten the
The Quiet Revolution In British Housing
Architects are fighting back. After their cause was hampered by the ill-conceived high-rises of the 60s and 70s, followed by the dire ‘traditional’ building of the Thatcher era, imaginative and
John Puttick Associates Wins Competition Cor £13 Million Preston Bus Station Overhaul
New York practice John Puttick Associates has won the competition to redevelop the Brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, with a design that features a rooftop football pitch, a climbing wall and a
Open Call: Redesign the Burning Man City Plan
Open to all internationally, the competition seeks a new city plan that will fit within the existing pentagonal boundaries of the event space, and that will center The Man and
David Hockney (b.1937)
For sticking to his own vision and getting the world to see Los Angeles anew.
Miró Foundation’s Sculptural Roof Informs Typography For 40th Anniversary
The distinctive shapes of Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert’s Joan Miró Foundation building in Barcelona are interpreted as a set of graphic symbols in celebration of the organisation’s four decades
Zen and the Art of Dying Well
What if the most promising way to fix the system is to actually do less for the dying? That’s what the not-for-profit Zen Hospice Project has been trying to prove through
Cai Guo-Qiang Sends Flaming Sky Ladder Soaring 500 Meters In The Air
Off the shore of Huiyu island — a small and picturesque fishing village the Chinese city of Quanzhou — artist Cai Guo-Qiang has realized the explosion event ‘sky ladder’ in
Restoring Eileen Gray’s E-1027
Gray’s seaside retreat survived Le Corbusier’s act of vandalism and decades of neglect. Now this midcentury icon shines again.
Review: Touch the Earth Lightly
Gillian Darley reviews an exhibition of Glenn Murcutt’s work at the Lighthouse in Glasgow.
Pigalle Duperré Is A Colourful Basketball Court Tucked Between A Row Of Parisian Apartments
Ill-Studio has collaborated with French fashion brand Pigalle to create a multicoloured basketball court between a row of buildings in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.