How Russian Architects Tried to Build a New Socialist World Using "America" as Their Guide
Americanizm , an exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, examines the USSR's ardent fascination with American technology and culture.
Americanizm , an exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, examines the USSR's ardent fascination with American technology and culture.
The memelike exhibition will please crowds of most stripes, but it’s doomed by an excess of unorganized, sentimentalist content.
A new book revisits the designer's visionary work, which advanced everything from flexible, “living” structures to microhouses.
Inventing the Modern World foregrounds the French architect-designer's inimitable talent, while also playing up her spirit of collaboration.
Relatively little was known about the driving force behind many of SOM's most accomplished buildings. A new book fills in the gaps of Bunshaft's biography.
In probing the relationship between humans and nature, two major exhibitions question the very foundations of design practice.
Though still largely unknown, the Belgian-born architect and artist forged ideas and places—including the Bauhaus’s predecessor—that defined 20th-century design.
Beatriz Colomina's new book overlooks the concrete cruelties of the designed environment.
In London and Philadelphia, curators prod at the ethics, anxieties, and material culture of humanity as we gear towards a future interplanetary society.
Despite some smart research, this edition's glut of information and ignorance of context reflects architecture's crisis of curation, our critic writes.
The 2019 edition of the triennale imagines a world free from the pursuit of GDP—but is it enough?
Steven Holl Architects' detail-oriented way of thinking about acoustics is what makes the Reach, and the myriad spaces within it, so successful.
In his new book, the journalist and photographer Lee Bey directs readers to some of Chicago's greatest architectural treasures, nearly all of them hiding in plain sight.
Before moving on to America, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and other Bauhaus protagonists spent a productive spell in the U.K.
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.
The editors of the new volume Imagining the Modern argue that the reviled federal program was responsible for creating the postcard Pittsburgh.
Fictional depictions like Bernadette form a vital accompaniment to initiatives that seek to help women architects flourish.
Designed by Mexico City–based Pedro & Juana, Hórama Rama reflects on the rampant real estate development that has enveloped PS1, as well as wider political and environmental issues.
The Lower East Side exhibition closes April 7 before being reprised in Stockholm this fall.
An exhibition at SFMOMA doesn’t dwell on the development’s prehistory and afterlife, but rather tries to recover some of its original sensibility.