2024, The Year in …
John Hill
17. december 2024
Image: World-Architects
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead of a chronological presentation, we are look at what happened during the year in ten areas: awards, books, exhibitions, expansions, interviews, openings, passings, preservation, (re)openings, and World-Architects. So scroll down to look at the year in …
… Awards:
EUmies Award winner: Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke (Photo: Iwan Baan)
- 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize: Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was named the 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Prize in March “for reminding us that in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created by the resolve of the people.”
- 2024 EU Mies Awards: The Study Pavilion at TU Braunschweig by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke and SUMA Arquitectura's Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona were named winners in the biennial award in April.
- 2024 RIBA International Prize: Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing in Cornellà, Barcelona, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes was named the winner in November.
… Books:
Form Follows Love by Anna Heringer with Dominique Gauzin-Müller (Photo: Elias Baumgarten)
- Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture in this book that is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.
- Art Applied: The third book by Petra Blaisse on her Amsterdam design studio Inside Outside is as close to a comprehensive document of the career of a designer who is known for curtains but also designs exhibitions and landscapes.
- Exquisite Experiments, Early Years: This issue of Architectural Design delves into the early archive of Lebbeus Woods, the visionary architect, celebrated delineator, and influential educator who died in 2012, focusing on the Black Notebooks he filled from the late 1960s to 1985.
… Exhibitions:
Installation view of Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Photo: John Hill/World-Architects)
- In New York: Designing Decades: Architectural Poster Art (1972-1982) at the Modulightor Building, Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tall Timber at The Skyscraper Museum, UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation at the Goethe-Institut New York,
- In Europe: Craving for Boijmans at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Resources for a Future at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024, Sauerbruch Hutton - drawing in space at the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin, Soft Power - Making Cities the Brussels Way at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel
- In Asia: I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture at M+ in Hong Kong, SD Review 2024 – The 42nd Exhibition of Winning Architectural Drawings and Models at Hillside Terrace in Tokyo
… Expansions:
Álvaro Siza Wing at the Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (Photo © Fernando Guerra)
- Siza adds to Siza: The new Álvaro Siza Wing at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, opened to the public on February 24, 2024, with an exhibition of works by its namesake architect.
- DS+R expands DS+R: The Broad announced plans in March to expand its decade-old building in Downtown Los Angeles designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with a design by DS+R.
- Safdie adds to Safdie: April saw the unveiling of a Safdie Architects' multi-billion-dollar expansion of Marina Bay Sands, the landmark resort in Singapore that Moshe Safdie's firm designed a decade and a half ago.
… Interviews:
Carlo Ratti, curator of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale (Photo: Andrea Avezzu')
- “Le Corbusier’s thoughts had a subtle influence on me”: Eduard Kögel spoke with Beijing architect Zhu Pei on the occasion of POETIC IMAGINATIONS. Interweaving Architecture with Traditional Values, an exhibition at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin.
- Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.: John Hill spoke with Italian architect, engineer, author, and educator Carlo Ratti shortly after he was appointed curtaor of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and unveiled the exhibition's theme, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
- Spatial Equilibrium: Vladimir Belogolovsky spoke with Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan about his spatially adventurous buildings that share the impulse to gather an array of forces that ultimately inform and define their organizational and formal expressions.
… Openings:
OPEN Architecture's Sun Tower (Photo: Iwan Baan)
- Fireworks in a Sugar Cube: The museum of private collector Reinhard Ernst opened in Wiesbaden, Germany, in June, just a few weeks after the death of its architect, 1993 Prtizker Prize laureate Fumihiko Maki.
- Sculpted by the Sun: Sun Tower, a waterfront cultural facility in Yantai, China, designed by OPEN Architecture — or, more accurately, “sculpted by the movement of the sun” — opened in the fall.
- Longwood Reimagined: A 17-acre expansion of Longwood Gardens carried out by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism in collaboration with Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, opened to the public in Novemer.
… Passings:
Fumihiko Maki at the MIT Media Lab in 2010 (Photo: jeanbaptisteparis/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
- Antoine Predock, 1936–2024: The architect known for buildings in the American Southwest and who called New Mexico his “spiritual home” for 70 years, died in early March at the age of 87, one month before a massive “memoirograph” was released.
- José Oubrerie, 1932–2024: The French architect who worked in the studio of Le Corbusier and completed the Saint-Pierre Church in Firminy four decades after the death of Le Corbusier, died on March 10 at the age of 91.
- Fumihiko Maki, 1928–2024: The celebrated Japanese architect who was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993 died of natural causes at his home in Tokyo on June 6 at the age of 95.
… Preservation:
Albert Frey and A. Lawrence Kocher, Aluminaire House™, 2024. Collection of Palm Springs Art Museum. (Photo: Benny Chan)
- Prefab in Palm Springs: Frey and Kocher's demountable and portable Aluminaire House — built in New York City in 1931, moved numerous times, then put in storage for more than a decade — found a permanent home in the spring in Palm Springs, where Albert Frey lived for most of his life.
- Cultivate careful use and reuse: In November the AA School of Architecture in London announced that next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse.
- Renovating Weese: Under threat of demolition due to deferred maintenance, accessibility issues, and programming deficiencies, Harry Weese's nearly 50-year-old Village Hall in Oak Park in suburban Chicago was saved in November.
… (Re)Openings:
The Vessel after its October reopening (Photo: John Hill/World-Architects)
- Brick House: The companion to Philip Johnson's famed Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, reopened for public tours in May after being closed for a decade and a half.
- The Vessel: Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Vessel, the site of four suicides in the center of New York's Hudson Yards, reopened after a three-year closure in October with limited access and extensive safety netting.
- Notre Dame Cathedral: The reopening of the Parisian landmark in early December, five years after the church was engulfed by a massive fire, was celebrated as far as Houston, where an exhibition allowed people to immersive themselves in a pre-fire digital reconstruction.
… World-Architects
Image: African-Architects
- African-Architects: In January we launched the 21st national/regional platform under the World-Architects umbrella. Under curator Fabienne Hoelzel, African-Architects.com kicked off from Lagos, Nigeria’s powerhouse and one of the largest cities on the continent.
- 30 Years of Quality in Architecture: PSA Publishers Ltd, the company that oversees the World-Architects platforms, was founded in Zurich in 1994. So earlier this month we traced the company’s evolution over these three decades and highlighted some of the important players in that evolution.
Wishing wonderful holidays and joyous New Year to everyone — see you in 2025!
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