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.
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London Exhibition Interrogates the "Radical" in Radical Architecture
At the Royal Academy of Arts, scores of architects—Denise Scott Brown, Peter Cook, and Patrik Schumacher, among them—show what being radical means to them.
How Landscape Architecture Hoped to Save the City
An exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum explores the intersection of landscape architecture and social reform at the turn of the 20th century.
New Exhibition Contemplates the Past, Present, and Future of the Workplace
Open until September 6 at Brooklyn's A/D/O by MINI, Out Of Office highlights key themes and objects from the past 70 years while projecting what the next 30 years may hold.
Virgil Abloh's MCA Exhibition Reveals the Power—and Limits—of Design Disruption
Hemmed in by quotation marks and material double-entendres, the IIT College of Architecture–educated designer can’t break through the brands he uses to define his work.
Measuring the True Value of Trees
Offsetted, an exhibition at Columbia University’s Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, explores how our society commodifies trees and the unintended consequences thereof.
Capturing the Design Spirit of Gen X
The exhibition An Accelerated Culture at Friedman Benda explores the shared ideas and narratives of Gen X designers, from Konstantin Grcic to Michael Anastassiades, Julia Lohmann, and more.
How the "Happiness Industry" Is Changing Architecture
A new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) explores the quantifying and ranking of happiness and probes its impact on architects' importance.
New York’s Iteration of the Cruising Pavilion Charts an Architecture of Queerness
The Lower East Side exhibition closes April 7 before being reprised in Stockholm this fall.
Inside Berlin's Surprisingly Eccentric Modernist Subway Stations
An exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie highlights how politics and a handful of architects greatly shaped the German metropolis's subway system.
See the Swan Song Designs of Paul Rudolph
This Center for Architecture exhibition provides fresh insight into the architect's last designs in East Asia.
Step into Houses Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Acolyte Kaneji Domoto
These 12 photos of Domoto's Lurie and Bier houses were taken for Domoto: Visions of Usonia, a new exhibit at SUNY Purchase's Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery.
With a New Design Museum Exhibition, David Adjaye Focuses on Monuments and Memorialization
While it offers some engaging installations and artifacts, David Adjaye: Making Memory struggles to broaden its scope beyond Adjaye's work and interrogate memorialization in today's culture.
Metropolis's Best of 2018: The 6 Objects and Exhibitions That Represented This Year
From a snake-sofa that unpacks the ethical implications of virtual reality to tapestries that speak to material innovation, these items reveal latent truths about the present moment.
The Eclectic Legacy of Bruce Goff Lives on in Exhibition at the University of Oklahoma
Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture at Bizzell presents a fascinating chapter of American architectural education.
Gio Ponti’s Rich Design Legacy to Be Celebrated in Huge Paris Retrospective
Of the cohort of Modern designers working in postwar Italy, few rivaled Gio Ponti—either in sheer prolificacy or in blending industrial…
Chicago Exhibit Spotlights Charlotte Perriand’s Alpine Ski Resort
The legendary designer and Le Corbusier collaborator broke the mold with her Modernist, male contemporaries, according to a show at Matthew Rachman Gallery.
A New Show in London Celebrates Postmodernism’s Comeback
On View at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Return of the Past presents a broad, if not myopic, view of ‘70s and ‘80s English buildings.
New Cooper Hewitt Exhibit Takes a Fresh Look at the History of Color
Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color delves into product design, subway wayfinding, industrial standardization, consumer culture, and more.
This Architect-Designed Furniture Is More Conceptual Than Conventional
A pair of exhibitions at Manhattan gallery Friedman Benda show what happens when architects give furniture design a whirl.
