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Constructing Hope: Ukraine is an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York City that gathers the grassroots work of numerous multidisciplinary creatives who are applying architectural thinking to support Ukraine's ongoing reconstruction efforts. Take a visual tour through...
The latest installment of The Architects Series, a project of The Plan Magazine and Iris Ceramica Group, presents a half-hour documentary on the architecture and interior design studio NOA...
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture, the highly anticipated exhibition on influential, world-famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), opens at M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District on June 29. Here we take a visual tour through a smattering of the drawings, photographs, and...
How long after an architecture firm is established should it release its first monograph? A number of variables come to play in determining an answer, but the notorious slowness of architecture means a firm might not put its projects in print until it has reached drinking age. The four...
Architecture Exchange, a platform “dedicated to catalyzing ideas and debate within architecture,” recently put out a call soliciting nominations “for the most significant architectural theory texts in the period between 2008 and 2024.”
Riken Yamamoto, recipient of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, will present his laureate lecture, “Community: The Architect as Catalyst for Change,” at the Illinois Institute of Technology's S.R. Crown Hall in Chicago on Thursday, May 16. The lecture, followed by a panel discussion with...
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...
Kolektiv Cité Radieuse is presenting the work of Czech illustrator Jan Šrámek at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille from April 6 until May 15, 2024. Endangered Species: Unclaimed Brutalism pays tribute to Czechoslovakian architecture from the 1960s to 1980s as well as,...
The traditional annual exhibition of the Academy of Architecture in the Swiss canton of Ticino is running in Mendrisio until the end of June. This year's exhibition, which is well worth seeing, also provides an insight into the development of architectural education over the decades.
A short, 12-minute film from the Victoria and Albert Museum takes viewers insides some of the buildings in Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, the exhibition at the V&A that looks at the colonial origins of Tropical Modernism in British West Africa.
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...
Infinitive Architecture introduces The Vibes, a low-rise multi-functional building designed to create a multi-functional hub for F&B, meetings, workshops, galleries, and events in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement says that Yamamoto, an “architect and social advocate,” is being given the Pritzker Prize “for reminding us that in...
The exhibition "drawing in space" by Sauerbruch Hutton provides an insight into the reflection and creative processes of their architecture. Falk Jaeger visited the exhibition and also found in it a journey through the development of architectural representation.
Architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen of Chile's Pezo von Ellrichshausen speak about the drawings of Argentine architect Amancio Williams as they browse his archive at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, part of the third and last installment in the CCA's Out of the Box...
Brooklyn Bridge Park is a new visual biography about the namesake, 1.3-mile (2-km) long park on the Brooklyn waterfront. Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the park is immensely popular for its views of Lower Manhattan, mix of active and passive uses, and beautiful...
Five months after the Norman Foster retrospective exhibition wrapped up its three-month run at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Norman Foster Foundation has released a 45-documentary about the making of the exhibition and a survey of some of the numerous projects in the...
The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, opened Building Stories on January 21. Six years in the making, the ambitious multigenerational exhibition curated by Leonard Marcus, an expert on children's literature, will be on display for ten years.
Last month New York City opened the East Midtown Greenway, an eight-block-long link in a loop of pedestrian and bike paths around Manhattan, located along the East River between 53rd and 61st Streets. World-Architects visited the project to take a closer look at the design by Stantec.
As 2023 draws to a close and our thoughts linger on what transpired over the last twelve months, World-Architects is taking a month-by-month look at some of the stories we covered: awards, competitions, buildings, books, exhibitions, and passings.
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...
Japanese architect Toyo Ito is donating a portion of his archive, documenting projects spanning the years 1971 and 1995, to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023.
On display at DuSable Park as part of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial, Parallel Histories is an installation that looks back to the Haitian-born immigrant the park is named for — and forward to the imminent creation of the park that has been more than 35 years in the making.
London's Architecture Foundation recently held its annual Book Week, featuring “fourteen of the best newly published architecture books” in roughly half-hour videos presented by their authors. Some highlights.
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...
Ma Yansong: Landscapes in Motion opened in late September at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MoCAUP) in Shenzhen, China, presenting a retrospective of MAD’s...
What significance does the work of the late Austrian architect Hans Hollein have for a younger generation of architects? The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is juxtaposing Hollein's projects with the designs of fifteen European firms in Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues, a major...
Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture, curated by Pedro Gadanho, is now on display at AIA New York's Center for Architecture. World-Architects stopped by recently to learn about the seven architecture studios that are “extending Earth's lifespan...
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of 2023 DAM Architectural Book Award, selecting the ten best architecture books from 245 submissions from 102 publishers.
World-Architects packed a lunch and headed to Gansevoort Peninsula, the former sanitation facility that is now home to Manhattan's first public beach. Designed by a team led by Field Operations, the latest addition to Hudson River Park opened to the public on October 2.
Five years ago Magazzino Italian Art, an institution focused on Arte Povera, opened its art space in Cold Springs, in New York's Hudson Valley. Just last month, Magazzino expanded with the new Robert Olnick Pavilion. The first building was designed by Miguel Quismondo's MQ Architecture, and...
On display at Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Frances Loeb Library until October 15, The Book in the Age of … is an exhibition that came out of a research seminar at the GSD taught by architect Rem Koolhaas, graphic designer Irma Boom, and architectural historian Phillip...
Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, the inaugural exhibition from the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), opened to the public on September 17.
Landscape architect Alan Ward, a partner at the Boston interdisciplinary firm Sasaki, has donated approximately 2,500 photographs of landscapes he shot in thirteen countries to The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).
Shelter Island is a small island town near the eastern end of Long Island that is reachable only by ferries. The island is home to numerous modern houses, such as the Eco House, previously featured as a US...