9 Exciting (Non-Salone!) Things to See and Do While in Milan
Heading to Milan but want to escape the Salone del Mobile bubble? Metropolis has put together this diverse list of activities, exhibitions, and local destinations.
Guglielmo Mattioli
Articles
Addis Ababa’s First Contemporary Art Museum Aims to Revive a Local Architectural Tradition
The Zoma Museum, which features wattle and daub construction, is a collaboration between curator Meskerem Assegued and artist Elias Sime.
Venice’s ‘Cruising Pavilion’ is a Gleefully Provocative Critique of the Biennale
The pavilion, part of the Venice Architecture Biennale’s unofficial offerings, explores the culture—and appropriation—of illicit sexual encounters.
Studio Fuksas’ Controversial (Yet Striking) Convention Center Opens At Last
Explore the impressive EUR Convention Center, designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas nineteen years ago, with our first ever 360 video tour.
Measuring Social Design: The Challenges of Bringing Data Into Design
“Design+Health” showed how data will (and should) inform design. But it also provoked questions about its potential downsides.
NYCHA Finally Acknowledges the Importance of Design—But Is That Enough?
For the first time in its 83-year history, the New York City Housing Authority has released guidelines that establish design principles to follow when rehabilitating residential buildings. But is this a case of too little, too late?
Social Design: A Discipline In Its Own Right
Cheryl Heller, the founding chair of the MFA in Design for Social Innovation at SVA, explains why “social design” needs its own graduate-level program, now more than ever.
Beatrice Galilee on Micro-Housing, Co-Living & The Importance of Escapism
The Met curator looks back at the year in architecture.
Sons of Koolhaas, Saarinen Explore Fathers’ Works in New Documentaries
Eric Saarinen and Tomas Koolhaas have both produced visually-stimulating architectural documentaries that give unique insight into their parents’ minds and works.
Never Built New York: Journey Into the New York City That Never Was
A new book compiles remarkable architectural and planning projects that would have drastically changed the city we know today.
Center for Healthy Living: A New Typology for Senior Facilities
Senior facilities are transforming into open centers that expand the concept of personal well-being
Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Master of Italian Modern Design, Dies at 102
Caccia Dominioni greatly influenced industrial design of the 20th century.
Gere Kavanaugh Awarded Ladislav Sutnar Prize
The American designer renowned for her innovation in textiles, pattern, and color was awarded the Ladislav Sutnar Prize today, along with four other laureates.
How a “Sponge Park” Will Clean up Notoriously Polluted NYC Waterway
The pilot project by dlandstudio, recently completed along the Gowanus Canal in New York City, will absorb polluted water like a sponge.
MCHAP Winners Make Landscape the Protagonist
The final group from this year’s cycle is diverse in typology and scale—but they all shared one recurrent theme: a very specific sense of place.
Five Modern Projects Bringing Hospitality Into Hospitals
These five projects encapsulate how hospitality design principles are being used to create welcoming, warm, cutting-edge healthcare spaces.
UT Austin Urban Planning Initiative Explores Race and Gender
The School of Architecture’s unique new urban planning initiative focuses on the crossroads of race, gender and the built environment.
ISIS-Destroyed Palmyra Arch Recreated in New York City
A two-thirds scale replica of the structure that once stood in the ancient town of Palmyra, Syria was unveiled in New York this week.
