Metropolis’s 8 Highlights from London Design Festival 2019
Courtesy Studio Stagg Fall is upon us, which means London is back to work, back to school, and back to exhibiting cutting-edge design work. The 17th edition of London Design Festival (LDF) sprung into...
View ArticleColorful Japanese Posters Take Over Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum
Colorful Japan: 226 Posters from the Collection draws on the Stedelijk Museum’s links with Japanese printers and designers. Pictured: Muneji Satomi’s Japan (1937). Courtesy Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’s...
View ArticleWhat Not to Miss at Archtober 2019
The former industrial sugar refinery was restored and repurposed by ODA Architecture as a new office complex on 10 Jay Street—one of the many projects open to visitors during Archtober. Courtesy Pavel...
View ArticleInclusivity and Economic Development Emerge as Top Themes at Detroit Month of...
Produced by Detroit Design 139 initiative, Inclusive Futures displayed 70 new projects, including Michael Van Valkenburgh and David Adjaye’s Detroit Riverfront master plan. Courtesy Design Core Detroit...
View ArticleRIBA Exhibition Tells the Oft-Neglected Story of the “British Bauhaus”
Burleigh Primary School, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire: the infants’ classroom blocks separated by courtyards Courtesy Architectural Press Archive/RIBA Collections Stepping into Beyond Bauhaus: Modernism in...
View ArticleDeconstructing Degrowth at the Oslo Architecture Triennale
Exhibition view of the Library, National Museum of Architecture. Courtesy Istvan Virag “A rising tide lifts all boats” is a phrase that may be familiar to many in the United States. First coined by...
View Article5 Highlights from New York City’s Architecture & Design Film Festival
Still from Goff, a film showing during the Architecture and Design Film Festival. Courtesy ADFF Today marks the kick-off of the 11th Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) in New York City....
View ArticleArtist David Hartt Takes Over a Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Synagogue
Installation view, David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier), Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, PA. Courtesy Michael Vahrenwald Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “Music and architecture blossom on the...
View ArticleWith Its Exhibition Add to the Cake, Foreign Legion Calls for Inclusion
A timeline outlining some achievements of women in design, produced as part of the new exhibition Add to the Cake with artwork by Raby Florance Fofana and graphic design by Andrea Anner. Courtesy...
View ArticleExhibitions on Both Sides of the Atlantic Ponder Future Life—on Earth, and...
Moving to Mars exhibition Courtesy Ed Reeve “Should I stay or should I go?” pondered English punk rock band The Clash in their 1982 hit single. Fast forward three decades and that question is at the...
View ArticleGyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus
Historian John R. Blakinger writes in Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus (MIT Press) that the artist “pulled images widely and wildly—even recklessly— from an encyclopedic spectrum of fields,”...
View ArticleThis Stunning Exhibition Examines Humankind’s Impact on Earth
Courtesy © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Howard Greenberg and Bryce Wolkowitz Galleries, New York / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto In the exhibition Anthropocene, there are aerial photos of a...
View ArticleThis Exhibition Aims to Capture the Diversity of Human Health
Being Human, the recently opened display at London’s Wellcome Collection, is a wide ranging survey of humanity in the 21st century. Pictured: No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory), Deborah Kelly...
View ArticleAppalachian Makers Tell Their Own Story in a New Exhibit
Bridge, a cast-iron sculpture by the Asheville artist Tom Shields, figures among the works in the exhibition Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia. The...
View ArticleAn Artist Re-thinks Museum Architecture’s Impact
Prop 6, one of the works artist Lauren Henkin has installed at the Cincinnati Arts Center in a new exhibition, titled Props. Courtesy Jeremy Kramer Photography The unveiling of Cincinnati Arts Center’s...
View ArticleArchitecture Reckons with the Future at the First Sharjah Architecture Triennial
The first Sharjah Architecture Triennial, titled Rights of Future Generations and curated by Adrian Lahoud, opened last month and runs until February 2020. Photo by Antoine Espinasseau The first...
View ArticleHumans Must Be Displaced From the Center of Design
At the Triennale di Milano’s Broken Nature: Design Takes On Human Survival, the design duo Formafantasma presented Ore Streams, an investigation of the life cycle of electronics, which account for the...
View Article5 Highlights from New York City’s Architecture & Design Film Festival
Still from Goff, a film showing during the Architecture and Design Film Festival. Courtesy ADFF Today marks the kick-off of the 11th Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) in New York City....
View ArticleA New Show at Friedman Benda Challenges Viewers to Redefine the Meaning of...
Comfort, a new exhibition at Friedman Benda Gallery in New York City, opened January 9. Left to right: Standing Man (1942) and Woman Poet Sitting by the Sea (1942) by Simone Fattal; Canapé Homme Geant...
View ArticleA Space of Perceptual Stillness: How Ezra Stoller Photographed Modernity
Ezra Stoller, TVA Johnsonville Fossil Plant (1951), Johnsonville, TN, 1955. Picture credit: courtesy and copyright (c) Esto (page 187) Courtesy Phaidon “A good architectural photograph is not possible...
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