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A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles architectural designer Jenny Sabin, whose eponymous design studio and design lab at Cornell University investigate the intersections of architecture, science, and the fine arts.
Two and a half years after Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was selected to design the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, renderings have been released of what is notably the first wing designed by a woman in The Met's 154-year...
Mattress Factory, the “artist-centered” museum housed in an early 20th-century Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently opened REIFICATION, a site-specific installation by artist Eugene Macki that fuses sculpture and performance. Take a tour through...
The Vancouver Art Gallery is scrapping plans to build a new home designed by Herzog & de Meuron due to rising costs, and will seek a new architect.
To celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire necessitated an extensive and speedy restoration and reconstruction, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is exhibiting an immersive, three-dimensional digital model of the Gothic landmark. A...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features a 20-minute interview with Spanish architect Rafael Moneo at his studio in Madrid.
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal from November 14, 2024 until March 16, 2025. Here we present a few of Erickson's photographs from the CCA archive that express how the Canadian...
World-Architects recently visited Making Home–Smithsonian Design Triennial, which opened at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City on November 2 and is on display until August 10, 2025. Take a visual tour through some of the 25 site-specific installation that...
With the exhibition Soft Power - Making Cities the Brussels Way, on view at Basel's Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM) until March 16, 2025, S AM declares Belgium's architectural culture to be a role model. But what does Brussels have over Switzerland?
UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation is a traveling exhibition organized by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. It opened in Venice last year, coinciding with the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the third of the exhibition's five iterations is on display at the Goethe-Institut...
Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with architect Liz Diller in the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on New York's West Side, not far from the practice's breakout project, the High Line.
Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political...
The latest addition to Tippet Rise Art Center — a sprawling ranch in Montana that has been home to artworks, pavilions, and performance spaces since opening in 2016 — is Geode, an open-air acoustical structure and performance venue designed by Arup to create an intimate sonic environment...
AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in...
As part of the the Kunsttage Basel event in late August, Nicolas Krupp Gallery invited Swiss visual artist Eric Hatten to play around with the materials in the gallery's new exhibition space currently under construction. VernissageTV walked through the exhibition in one of its latest videos.
Unlike fashion, publishing, and other fields, architecture doesn't have a “season.” But when it comes to exhibitions and other architectural events, autumn is a busy time. Here we highlight a half-dozen of the numerous architecture exhibitions opening in September and October. These are...
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 architecture-related film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with Andrés Jaque, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).
This June, Rotterdam shines as the epicenter of architectural innovation with its highly anticipated Architecture Month, the large annual festival dedicated to envisioning the Dutch city's future. Amid the myriad of events capturing the city's cultural scene, one standout deserves special...
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...
Miss Dior: Stories of a Miss opened recently at Roppongi Museum in Tokyo. Designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, the exhibition unfolds through seven rooms, each revealing a different facet of the Miss Dior parfum. Japan-Architects got a preview of this latest stop for the touring...
Jenny Holzer: Light Line is on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City from May 17 until September 29, 2024. The major exhibition features a selection of artworks created by the artist from the 1970s to the present and, at its center, a new manifestation of Installation for...
Film director Steve McQueen's Bass is an immersive light-and-sound installation in the lower-level gallery of Dia Beacon in New York's Hudson River Valley. World-Architects visited ahead of the artwork's opening on May 12.
For Le Grand Soir, which opened last month and is on display for two years in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada stacked colored concrete blocks into towers inspired by the tradition of constructing human pyramids in Morocco as well...
Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has installed Abetare on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the museum's 2024 Roof Garden Commission. The exhibition, opening on April 30, consists of sculptures inspired by children's doodles, drawings, and scribbles found on...
A US federal judge has halted the demolition of Greenwood Pond: Double Site, a 1996 work of environmental art in Des Moines, Iowa, by Mary Miss, and a German court has ruled that Ravensburger can continue to produce jigsaw puzzles bearing the iconic image of Leonardo da Vinci's...
Watch a short film from VernissageTV of Ryoji Ikeda's data.tecture [nº1], the immersive sound and video installation that was recently shown at Blum Gallery in Los Angeles as part of Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood.
Richard Serra, the artist known for monumental sculptures made with large plates of weathering steel that required people to move around them to fully experience them — making him a favorite of many architects — died at his Long Island home on Tuesday, March 26, at the age of 85.
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...
Occupying two full floors and multiple terraces of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Renzo Piano-designed building in New York's Meatpacking District, the 81st edition of the Whitney Biennial, subtitled Even Better Than the Real Thing, aims to provide a space where difficult...
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.
Minimum funds required to rebuild the burnt-out Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art, according to architect David Chipperfield:...