This Stunning Exhibition Examines Humankind’s Impact on Earth
Anthropocene, a radical multisensory media exhibit, runs through January 5 at MAST Foundation.
Design
Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism Offers a Snapshot of Modern Architecture’s Beginnings
Though still largely unknown, the Belgian-born architect and artist forged ideas and places—including the Bauhaus’s predecessor—that defined 20th-century design.
Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus
In Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus, historian John R. Blakinger investigates the life of the Hungarian artist, the last of the Bauhaus generation in America.
How It’s Made: Parachilna’s Ghost-like Lighting Fixture
Designed by Toronto-based Partisans, no two versions of the piece are the same.
Exhibitions on Both Sides of the Atlantic Ponder Future Life—on Earth, and Beyond
In London and Philadelphia, curators prod at the ethics, anxieties, and material culture of humanity as we gear towards a future interplanetary society.
Sitting Alone in Public: How the Café Chair Defined Modern Urban Culture
Beginning with Thonet's innovations two centuries ago, the development of the café chair typology reflects upheavals in cities and design.
With Its Exhibition Add to the Cake, Foreign Legion Calls for Inclusion
The curators take on the subject of gender inequity in design history and contemporary practice, in a show staged at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.
Open Style Lab’s Fashion Toolkit Is a Hack-In-A-Box
The lab’s new Hack-Ability Kit offers DIY fashion solutions for people with disabilities.
8 Lighting Releases That Show the Best Design is Often Hidden in Plain View
Recent lighting products can take a minimal form, seemingly dissolving into the spatial ether, or manifest more arrestingly.
IKEA Teams Up with Virgil Abloh for a Collection Targeted at Fashion-Conscious Millennials
Called MARKERAD, the limited-edition collection offers statement pieces for those transitioning into a space of their own.
Artist David Hartt Takes Over a Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Synagogue
On view through December 19, David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) explores themes of diaspora and belonging.
Mendini's World: Groninger Museum Opens a Massive Exhibition on the Late Architect-Designer
Organized by Alessandro Mendini himself, the showcase includes work by his contemporaries and is staged in a building he helped design.
5 Highlights from New York City’s Architecture & Design Film Festival
At this year's edition, a run of films shine a light on issues of housing, from the perils of gentrification to the intractable challenge of urban homelessness.
Deconstructing Degrowth at the Oslo Architecture Triennale
The 2019 edition of the triennale imagines a world free from the pursuit of GDP—but is it enough?
RIBA Exhibition Tells the Oft-Neglected Story of the "British Bauhaus"
Before moving on to America, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and other Bauhaus protagonists spent a productive spell in the U.K.
Inclusivity and Economic Development Emerge as Top Themes at Detroit Month of Design
In looking beyond the city’s central business district, the annual design festival staked out new ground for architecture and design.
What Not to Miss at Archtober 2019
October 1 marks the start of New York City’s month-long celebration of architecture and design. Here are our recommendations.
Colorful Japanese Posters Take Over Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum
The exhibition, spanning over 80 years of Japanese graphic design, is a tribute to designer Shigeru Watano's long-standing relationship with the museum.
Metropolis’s 8 Highlights from London Design Festival 2019
From public space installations to carnival costume displays, this year’s events ran the usual, unconstrained gamut.
Behind the Curtain: How Marybeth Shaw Drives Creative Production at Wolf-Gordon
For decades, Shaw has looked to unconventional talents, collaborating with fledgeling designers to bring their textile work into production.
