At the heart of innovation, it's always those up-and-coming prospective stars that you can trust to dream up exciting new design concepts. This year, IMM Cologne is once again celebrating the names of tomorrow in their annual Pure Talents Contest: Young Design competition and exhibition. Now in its 13th year, the initiative is hosting the work of 19 emerging global ta...
'Even though Ilse’s oeuvre is compelling yet subtle, she had but one solo show in her entire life,' says Janine Cirincione, Sean Kelly's director and the show's curator. 'It’s exceedingly rare that you come across an artist whose entire body of work is so mature at a remarkably young age,' she adds. D’Hollander’s spare compositions are based on blurred blocks and band...
The large scale event is intended to focus on the common urban challenges facing the Pearl River Delta region, drawing the two cities even closer. In Shenzhen, the exhibition (titled 'Re-Living the City') is held in a striking settting – an abandoned flour factory – but includes many, if not too many, voices, which has an impact in its overall critical strength. Still...
The exhibition brings together early and recent work by the designer, whose technology startup MX3D is planning to build the world's first 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam. Laarman, who already has work in gallery collections around the world, has created a sinuous metal sculpture for the exhibition. The piece was made using the same technology as the bridge, and is int...
So far in our coverage of the Biennial we have highlighted about a dozen contributions to the exhibition headquartered at the Chicago Cultural Center: Sou Fujimoto's collection of everyday objects paired with scale figures, Jeanne Gang's reconsideration of police stations in light of recent acts of police violence in the U.S., four environments for sitting (and one for l...
With so much of the Biennial, under artistic directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, devoted to architects from outside Chicago, the BOLD exhibition, curated by Iker Gil of MAS Studio and the journal MAS Context, is a necessary, locally focused companion. Occupying the Garland Gallery in the middle of the Cultural Center, the exhibition shows that Chicago is still home t...
named DOMUS, the installation brings together a host of acclaimed design studios, creating a new landscape within the former tram depot. the project seeks to embrace the narrative of contemporary design, providing a place for guests to pause and reflect. curated by jana zielinski and jiří macek, the centerpiece is an elevated exhibition space that takes the form of a ...
responding to the event’s overarching theme of ‘freedom’, the hub functions as a creative outpost, encouraging public participation and reappropriation. the work incorporates two major pieces by renowned german designer konstantin grcic: ‘hack’, a flexible table system that seeks to anticipate the changing requirements of both companies and employees, and ‘allstar’, a ch...
as one of his generation’s most revered and talked-about architects, gehry has gained a reputation for upending architectural norms with attention grabbing designs such as bilbao’s guggenheim museum, which opened in 1997, and the fondation louis vuitton, which opened just last year. the exhibition focuses on the bold ideas that are the driving force behind gehry’s cre...
Koskinen says of him: 'Throughout my own career I have seen him as a charismatic and relentless designer and artist, who had a very wide view of every sector of the design field. It was not just work; it was a way of life.' The exhibition will start a national tour that opens this month at the Korundi House of Culture in Rovaniemi. The exhibition is in two parts. STIL...
His inspiring designs are now on display for the first time at Miami's Meeting House, in the new exhibition: 'Rene Gonzalez Architect: Elevated Living'. Featuring models, drawings, hand sketches - presented through Gonzalez's own sketchbooks - and photography, the new show, which opened in the downtown Miami gallery on the weekend, explores the challenges and possibl...
Similarly Antwerp has been shaped by its proximity to the water, slowly but surely establishing itself as an international port with a rich and diverse cultural framework. Of course, despite the two port cities' parallels, they are also profoundly different, each possessing their own unique characteristics. It is exactly these similarities and differences that a new exhi...
As Dezeen previewed earlier this week, Cocksedge has developed a method of uniting different metals through a freeze/thaw method that binds the different materials together through contraction and expansion to create a strong joint. Cocksedge shrinks the metals by applying liquid nitrogen to the different materials. He then fits the contracted pieces into the pre-cut ...
Launched in 2012, the widely acclaimed tour exhibition will now make its sixth stop at Shanghai Himalayas Museum. Architecture for Dogs opened to the public on August 8 and will run through October 11, 2015. Practically everybody on earth is familiar with dogs and has some interest in them. The ‘dog’ represents a universal and broad-ranging theme. Kenya Hara Sin...
This extraordinary rate of productivity has aided the architect’s meteoric rise to prominence within the profession, but the expansive collection of drawings, photographs, models, and full-scale mockups on display in Chicago illustrates that attention to detail need not be sacrificed despite this prolific record. The exhibition is entitled “Making Place: The Architecture...
The Windy City was a natural choice for this grand festival of architecture. It is intrinsically linked with some of the greatest names to have graced the profession over the last century, from Mies van der Rohe to Frank Lloyd Wright. Iconic buildings by both will be accessible via a plethora of tours and exhibitions for the entirety of the Biennial, but what about the m...
AMO – the research arm of OMA – continued its collaboration with fashion designer Miuccia Prada to create the set design for her Miu Miu brand's presentation during Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday. The show took place in the hypostyle hall of the Art Deco Palais d'Iena, designed by French architect August Perret in 1937. Among the building's rows of columns, AMO in...
a series of large-format photographs, shot by azuma’s collaborator shunsuke shiinoki, illustrates the nearly ten year journey of a bonsai tree around, and above, the globe. encapsulated by an open steel frame, the suspended botanical sculpture has traveled from derelict government spaces, to sublime natural landscapes, some in extreme environments that these plants would...
'Richard Meier: Process and Vision', which opens this weekend as part of the opening festivities of the very first Chicago Architecture Biennale, explores contrasts and different approaches within the architect’s designs and artwork. Four of the practice’s seminal projects, the Getty Center, the High Museum of Art, the Canal+ Headquarters and the Arp Museum, as well a...
Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye spans more than 20 years of architecture, furniture design, and urban planning. The exhibition, spread across galleries on two floors, includes photographs, drawings, models, videos, mock-ups and products. But the largest exhibit is a full-size replica of Adjaye's Horizon pavilion – a boxy volume made up of blackened wood...
Created as a comprehensive overview of work from the influential German art and design school, the exhibition covers a range of disciplines including design, architecture, art, film and photography. Founded by Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus taught Modernist principles across art, architecture, graphic design, interior design and industrial design. Subsequent director...
More than 1,000 architects attended seven events in seven different cities last summer, despite the often tropical temperatures. These events were organised as part of the 2015 ArchitekTOUR under the motto ‘Architecture for education, research and work in the age of globalisation and digitisation’. The number of participants at each event had occasionally to be limited t...
Organized by Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Cretive Europe, the format will be a series of short and high-impact talks followed by debates. The mains objective of the event are: To raise awareness amongst EU policymakers and the broader public of the importance of quality architecture in the process of shaping more ethical, fairer, greener and economically sustaina...
‘Ó', meaning ‘from’ in the Irish language, conveys the story of Ireland as a source of creative ideas and making, and explains how its craft heritage inspires new and contemporary design. The new work showcased in ‘Ó’ includes furniture from Snug, Aodh Furniture, Cillian Ó Súilleabháin, Simon Doyle and Klimmek & Henderson; luxurious woollen rugs from Ceadogán; ceramic...
Liu Xiaodong’s exhibition at the Faurschou Foundation Beijing shows a body of work painted live in Mongolia during the summer of 2015 entitled “Diary of An Empty City”. Liu Xiaodong has long been fascinated by the Chinese phenomenon of the “ghost city” frequently portrayed by the western press and urban planning aficionados, and has chosen a propitious location in Ord...
“The Truth? An adolescent fad or a symptom of senility.” (Emil Cioran). “…the service of truth is the hardest service.” (Friedrich Nietzsche). “It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.” (Georg Lichtenberg). “The truth is the bread and butter of robust intellects.” (Arturo Graf). “There is nothing as boring as t...
a celebration of his significant works from 1993 and onwards, the retrospective is comprised of a mix of site-specific installations and interventions curated for the elegant galleries of the RA. known for exploring a variety of contexts, scales and media. the artist’s work constantly fuses influences taken from the east and west; subtly accompanying and commemorating...
The work of Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, who have worked collaboratively since 2001, is characterized by the use of silent films and other analog forms of expression to portray poetic-philosophical narratives suspended in an indeterminate zone between reality and artifice. For the first major exhibition by the duo in Los Angeles, newly commissio...
as austria’s largest design festival, it stands as a platform in which to explore creative processes, and provides a venue for on-site experimentation. with thematic focuses on architecture, the future of urban mobility, the graphic arts, handicraft, to name a few, VDW focuses on design as being a key component in cultural production. the annual event explores how design...
Facts and events in history cannot be compared. Each one is unique, each pain and each trauma unrepeatable but, with passing time, major events converge on the same place; or a place’s history reveals excruciating recurrences. Stratified time and an intricate tangle of hark-backs and effects may make apparently distant moments seem simultaneous. Uriel Orlow, a Swiss a...
For “Whites”, her first solo presentation in Switzerland, Andra Ursuţa has developed a series of new sculptures that draw from a piece she first made in 2013 entitled Broken Obelisk. That sculpture was based, as its title implies, on Barnett Newman’s eponymous monument, made over the years between 1963 and 1969, which is in turn a reference to the nineteenth century mon...
home sweet home’ delves into these different subjects and brings forth tangible solutions or designs which address these issues, resulting in quite diverse furniture and homeware items. the exhibition looks at the home as a place that is typically dominated by emotions, memories and personal objects that are capable of being translated into new factors in a multitude of ...
Since the early 1980s, Margherita Spiluttini has been working as a freelance photographer, primarily in her homeland Austria, but also in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. After many years of collaboration with architects, theorists and artists she has built up an enormous archive of photographic material. She uses her camera to explore buildings as everyday constructs. S...
the image-based compositions transpose two ordinary objects — maps and books — into familiar visual representations of environmental and urban landscapes. the artist’s distinct process tells as much of a story as the final image does — for these illusions, ji zhou collects maps and hand-sculpts the paper into peaks and troughs to mimic mountaintops. the topographic r...
We experience motion every single moment as any other object existing in time and space, unavoidably being subject to the laws of nature. Motion is the very proof of liveness when referring to the organic, but for the mechanic, genius and science are also necessary. Seiichi Hishikawa, a versatile figure in the Japanese creative scene, has mastered the science of motion ...
the event has been coordinated by the archi depot foundation, an organization established to conserve the scale models and designs of japanese architectural culture. the primary objective of the foundation is to preserve and present the scale models that still play an important role in the transmission of the architects’ visions to the general public. in architecture st...
