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Robert A.M. Stern, the famed neotraditional architect, longtime dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and author of a series of definitive books on New York City architecture, died on November 27 at the age of 86.
Tom Avermaete brings architectural history out of its niche. In his lectures and research work as a professor at ETH Zurich, he transforms it into a teacher, demonstrating how environmentally friendly and resource-efficient construction can be achieved.
The Zumtobel Group supports the EUmies Awards, one of the most prestigious awards for architects worldwide. Isabel Zumtobel explains why she is convinced of the importance of this commitment and why promoting young talent is particularly close to her heart.
The Doshi Retreat opened on October 25 at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It is a refuge designed by Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi in close collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof.
Lahbib El Moumni and Imad Dahmani founded Mémoire des Architectes Modernes Marocains (MAMMA) in Casablanca in 2016. MAMMA is working on documenting modernist buildings that have often been forgotten and urgently need more publicity. Eduard Kögel spoke with Lahbib El Moumni...
As the Gulf region experiences unprecedented growth—more than a trillion US dollars’ worth of projects are in the pipeline—Arabian-Architects.com is set to become a dedicated online platform for the region’s architects, designers, and related professionals. The new regional platform will be...
Grace Farms, the cultural and humanitarian center in New Canaan, Connecticut, that opened its SANAA-designed River building in October 2015, marked its tenth anniversary with a day-long celebration of art, design, music, and conversation on Saturday, October 11. World-Architects was in...
Contributing writer Jumana Abdel-Razzaq visits the campus of the American University in Dubai to explore the work of Dr. Georges Kachaamy, a celebrated architect and academic who is redefining the boundaries of architecture, and how his research in emerging technologies and artificial...
Dublin, London, Oxford, Zurich—the documentary film The Librarians has taken European cinemas by storm even before its premiere in the US. But it's actually all about the United States: Since fall 2021, Texas Republican Matt Krause's book ban list has been fueling a wildfire in the...
The latest book by Herman Hertzberger—and “most likely my last,” in his words—is Herman Hertzberger, Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959–2025, published earlier this year by Rotterdam- and Montreal-based Maas Lawrence. World-Architects delves into the career-spanning book that is part...
The long-awaited grand opening of Calder Gardens—the new arts institution dedicated to the world-famous 20th-century artist Alexander Calder—takes place in Philadelphia on September 21, 2025. World-Architects got a peek of the Herzog & de Meuron-designed building and gardens by Piet Oudolf...
Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
More than fifty architectural drawings from the collection of Susan Grant Lewin are on display at the Modulightor Building, the Midtown Manhattan home of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, until September 20. World-Architects visited
Dubai-based journalist Jumana Abdel-Razzaq recently visited the studio of Dabbagh Architects, one of the Middle East’s most celebrated architecture offices working within the region’s cultural space today, learning about architect Sumaya Dabbagh’s background, the firm’s philosophy, and some of...
The Sixth Pantheon is an impressive work of architecture in Buenos Aires whose existence and architect, Ítala Fulvia Villa, remained silenced for decades. Completed in the 1950s, the underground necropolis received global attention after the recent publication of a monograph devoted to it....
Architecton is the third installment in Victor Kossakovsky's “A” trilogy—following Vivan las Antipodas! (2011) and Aquarela (2018)—which finds the Russian filmmaker exploring humanity's place on the Earth. The 2024 documentary oscillates between hypnotic slow-motion...
Ma Yansong, who runs his global studio, MAD Architects, out of offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, and Rome, is one of the most distinctive artistic voices in China. He spoke to Vladimir Belogolovsky about his just-opened Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative...
Although “summer reads” have been a thing for a long time, books about architecture don’t tend to populate lists of books to be taken on holiday. Most architecture books are big and heavy, academic rather than narrative. Novels with strong architectural elements strike a good balance, and in...
Dubai-based journalist Jumana Abdel-Razzaq dropped by the minimalist studio of T.ZED Architects in Dubai for a tour with founder Tarik Zaharna, getting a closer look at the practice ahead of what’s shaping up to be a busy few years.
The second edition of Neil Leach’s Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects is being released this month by Bloomsbury Publishing. What lessons does the book offer architects? World-Architects dove in to find out.
When World-Architects landed in Venice last month to cover the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, we split our time between Carlo Ratti's Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective., the national pavilions, and heading to some of the other events taking place at the same time...
Botond Bognar is the author of more than two dozen books dedicated to architecture in Japan and the work of Japanese architects. His latest is the third edition of Architectural Guide – Japan, published by DOM Publishers in April to coincide with the opening of Expo 2025 Osaka,...
Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn, co-founder of Tropical Space in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011, was named the winner of the second DIVIA Award at a ceremony that took place in Venice on May 10,...
Eileen Gray's famous Villa E-1027, a modern masterpiece in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, is the subject of no fewer than three architecture monographs, as well as a graphic novel, a feature-length film, and a novel. The novel is
One source of pride for Carlo Ratti is the so-called Space for Ideas being the first open call in the history of the Venice Architecture Biennale. One outcome of this bottom-up selection process was an incredibly long list of contributors. Additionally, most of their projects had to be fitted...
Ada – My Mother the Architect tells the life story of Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melmede, whose father and brother were architects, and whose daughter, the director of the documentary, was also an architect before she ventured into filmmaking. The feature-length film debuted in fall...
At the Garden's Pace is a film directed by Juan Benavides that documents the construction of a pavilion for a botanical garden in Hilversum, Netherlands. Uniquely, the pavilion was designed by architect Enzo Valerio, but also built by him with a small team of architects over the course...
In 2026, Barcelona will host the UIA World Architecture Congress. Under the title Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition, the event seeks to connect the local with the global. It is shaping up as an open, collective, urban, and global process to rethink the role of...
Steven Holl is admired as much for his abundant drawings and watercolors as for his relatively few buildings. In the exhibition Steven Holl – Drawing as Thought, the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin is showing a selection of his most important and impressive graphic works.
Habitat is the debut novel of Catriona Shine, an architect who grew up in Ireland and now works in Oslo, and the latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series that looks at works of fiction with architectural themes. The novel follows seven neighbors living in an...
Fifteen years ago, Juri Troy built Austria's first CO2-neutral residential building. Now the Viennese architect and professor of architecture is showing what climate-positive architecture can look like with a hybrid wood-rammed earth building for the green energy supplier Windkraft...
Vincenzo Latronico has written several novels in Italian, but Perfection, published by New York Review Books this week, is his first novel to be translated into English. The book follows the lives of two young digital “creatives” in Berlin and other parts of Europe. Lynnette Widder...
Peter Cachola Schmal has been at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main since 2000, where the trained architect has been director since 2006. After 25 years and before his tenure ends in summer 2027, it is time to take stock of his work at the DAM.
Visitors to World-Architects in January voted Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjary Puri Architects as Building of the Year 2024. Located in the Indian state of...
Similar to his earlier book on Hong Kong, Walter Koditek has trained his camera on the facades of modernist buildings in Bangkok, compiling them into the recently published Bangkok Modern: Architecture of the 1950s–1970s. Architectural eye candy, or serious scholarship on overlooked...
Following the success of the much-publicized inaugural 2023 Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, its second edition, which commenced on January 25, continues to serve as an impressive visionary platform showcasing artistic traditions from antiquity to the present day. Titled And...