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Insight
6 days ago
The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) opened to the public in Tallinn, Estonia, on October 10, with three components — curatorial exhibition, symposium, and installation competition program — addressing the overarching theme “Resources for a Future.” World-Architects asked... John Hill
Insight
1 week ago
With the exhibition Soft Power - Making Cities the Brussels Way, on view at Basel's Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM) until March 16, 2025, S AM declares Belgium's architectural culture to be a role model. But what does Brussels have over Switzerland? Elias Baumgarten
Insight
3 weeks ago
Vladimir Belogolovsky spoke with David Lake, co-founder, with Ted Flato, of Lake|Flato, about Lake’s love for building, learning from other architects, designing buildings as good neighbors, wanting to be artfully practical, and sharing insights about his partner and his mentor, O’Neil Ford. Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
4 weeks ago
UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation is a traveling exhibition organized by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. It opened in Venice last year, coinciding with the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the third of the exhibition's five iterations is on display at the Goethe-Institut... John Hill
Insight
4 weeks ago
The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Zachary C. Solomon's first novel, A Brutal Design, whose protagonist is an architecture student and which is set in an... Madeline Beach Carey
Insight
1 month ago
Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized... John Hill
Insight
1 month ago
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable stars Adam Driver as an architect, master builder, and scientist who leads the Design Authority in the fictional city of New Rome. With a supernatural power and a Nobel Prize to his credit, he strives to realize a utopian future inspired by... John Hill
Insight
2 months ago
Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political... John Hill
Insight
2 months ago
Philippe Block heads the Institute for Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zurich. Together with the Professors Catherine De Wolf, Jacqueline Pauli and Walter Kaufmann, he has organised the IASS Symposium 2024, which is taking place at ETH Campus Hönggerberg. Philippe Block spoke with... Katinka Corts
Insight
2 months ago
Michael Maltzan is known for spatially adventurous buildings that, depending on where you start exploring them, are bold and subtle, erect and calm. Whether public or private and across all scales, they all share the impulse to gather an array of forces that ultimately inform and define their... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 24.07.2024
Founded in Adelaide, Australia, more than 150 years ago, Woods Bagot is one of the largest architectural offices in the world. Specializing in architecture, interiors, and master planning, it is a multi-authorship practice that does not adhere to a signature style. In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 08.07.2024
World-Architects spoke recently with architect, engineer, author, and educator Carlo Ratti via Zoom, to discuss his plans for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and parse the theme — Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. — that he has defined for the exhibition. Our... John Hill
Insight
on 04.07.2024
The long-established Swiss company Jansen has been one of the sponsors of the EUmies Awards for many years. For Ron Jacobs, Project Sales Manager International at the company specialising in steel systems, architects are... Editors of Swiss-Architects
Insight
on 28.06.2024
This June, Rotterdam shines as the epicenter of architectural innovation with its highly anticipated Architecture Month, the large annual festival dedicated to envisioning the Dutch city's future. Amid the myriad of events capturing the city's cultural scene, one standout deserves special... Nishi Shah
Insight
on 23.06.2024
The Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden is celebrating the opening of a shining architectural icon. The museum of private collector Reinhard Ernst is architecture at its finest, designed by the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the 1993 Pritzker Prize laureate Falk Jaeger
Insight
on 14.06.2024
As in other fields, artificial intelligence is also playing an increasingly important role in architecture. How it will change the discipline depends on the people who use it. This became clear at the “AI – Architectural Intelligence” conference held at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied... Elias Baumgarten
Insight
on 04.06.2024
Site Specific, Surface/Subsurface, Public Natures, Evolutionary Infrastructures — the titles of the books by and about Weiss/Manfredi, the... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 22.05.2024
In January, we asked visitors to our American-Architects platform to vote for their favorite Building of the Week from 2023. In the end, the US Building... John Hill
Insight
on 20.05.2024
The Glass House — Philip Johnson's estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, that is open to the public through the National Trust for Historic Preservation — is celebrating its 75th anniversary with the reopening of the Brick House, which was built in 1949 alongside the more famous Glass... John Hill
Insight
on 08.05.2024
The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed jointly by Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, has been honored with the Katinka Corts
Insight
on 02.05.2024
Studio Sangath, the Ahmedabad studio of Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, employs 15 architects from across India. They work on houses, building conversions, and various extensions to existing buildings, and they design art installations, exhibitions, lighting, furniture, and books.... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 26.04.2024
Christ Luebkeman is an engineer, educator, and futurist who leads the Strategic Foresight Hub in the Office of the President at ETH Zurich and is founder of Your2040, a yearly gathering aimed at accelerating change. World-Architects editor John Hill spoke with Luebkeman about these roles and... John Hill
Insight
on 09.04.2024
World-Architects takes a look at four recently published books on housing in North America and Latin America: Housing: Strategies for Urban Redensification; Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing; Laboratorio de Vivienda / Housing... John Hill
Insight
on 21.03.2024
Four years in the making, Art Applied is the third and latest book by Petra Blaisse on her Amsterdam design studio Inside Outside. Clocking in at nearly 900 pages and cloaked in a dust jacket that... John Hill
Insight
on 15.03.2024
Tall Timber: The Future of Cities in Wood opened at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan in late February. World-Architects stopped by to see which projects are included in the exhibition, what they say about the current state of mass timber, and what they portend to the future of... John Hill
Insight
on 29.02.2024
In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Abin Chaudhuri, the Kolkata-based architect talks about buildings having a soul, never simply following the brief, engaging local crafters, turning every project into a discovery, and believing in the architecture of generosity. Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 13.02.2024
The latest issue of MONU, the magazine on urbanism put out by BOARD in Rotterdam, explores the phenomenon of a “new social urbanism.” What is it, and how does it relate to other “urbanisms”? Architect and writer Nishi Shah digs into Nishi Shah
Insight
on 07.02.2024
Arkitekten (The Architect), winner of a special mention at the 2023 Berlinale Series Award, is a dystopian work about a female architect who is forced to live in an underground parking garage due to rising housing prices. Spanish-Architects spoke with the series creators, Nora... Ana María Álvarez
Insight
on 25.01.2024
World-Architects Editor in Chief John Hill spoke with Shashi Caan, CEO of IFI – International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers, about how IFI works, the challenges interior architects and designers face today, Caan’s career leading up to IFI and her role as CEO, and IFI’s Global... John Hill
Insight
on 17.01.2024
Point of Origin – Building a House in Austria documents the construction of an alpine house designed by Rem Koolhaas that is notably the Dutch architect’s first house realized since the House in Bordeaux 25 years ago. With apparently unfettered access to architect, client, and... John Hill
Insight
on 09.01.2024
Madeline Beach Carey's latest installment in her “Building Novels” series, which focuses on works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, delves into Time Shelter, the Booker Prize-winning novel by Georgi Gospodinov in which the different floors of a Zurich... Madeline Beach Carey
Insight
on 02.01.2024
Architect Patrick Keane of Enter Projects Asia shared with me his fascination with basketry and weaving patterns, his commitment to working with local economies and progressive engineers to push for optimizing structures and invent construction details, and starting every day with a blank... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 18.12.2023
Variations on our reality are currently on display at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The curators of “What if” have given a stage to entries from architectural competitions that will never be realized. It is a look into the past that is sad, albeit briefly, but with positive... Katinka Corts
Insight
on 01.12.2023
Can a work of architecture reveal something about its creator? Or does a building only tell stories about its occupants? In Skin of Glass, filmmaker Denise Zmekhol attempts to learn more about her father, who died when she was just fourteen, by visiting his masterpiece, the 24-story... John Hill
Insight
on 21.11.2023
In Vladimir Belogolovsky's interview with Chris Bosse, the Sydney-based co-founder and co-director of LAVA discusses achieving more with less, combining ideas coming from nature based on principles that remain constant and technology that constantly evolves, being innovative, and pursuing a... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Insight
on 15.11.2023
On October 19, Penguin released Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building our World, billing it as “a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.” The book, a website, and other components under the Humanise name also comprise a manifesto — one... John Hill