Cubism Beyond Paris (Malta, 15 Dec 17)
Cubism is recognised as the first avant-garde movement to radicalise the vision and conception of reality that led painting down an unprecedented path of discovery. Albeit its brevity, the cubist...
View ArticleAncient Contemporary Story: Museum of Apoxyomenos
The facade of the existing edifice was not to be modified in any way, leaving it to architects Saša Randić and Idis Turato to focus on the interior. What did they come up with? The body of the new...
View ArticleROM’s Evidence Room exhibit explores the evil that architecture can do
The Evidence Room is a powerful installation which reconstructs key objects used in the forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. Historian Robert Jan van Pelt introduced the objects as...
View ArticleArlington banned rowhouses in 1938. We’re suffering the consequences now.
In Arlington, restricting density to preserve neighborhood character isn't new. A rowhouse ban in 1938 may be one factor behind today's steep prices and gentrification.11. Source: Planetizen
View ArticleArchaeologists in Ethiopia uncover ancient city in Harlaa
A forgotten city thought to date back as far as the 10th century AD has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists in eastern Ethiopia.Artefacts from Egypt, India and China have been found in the city...
View ArticleA Death-Plagued Gilded Age Ballroom, Recreated on the Edge of Central Park
Open House by sculptor and installation artist Liz Glynn at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, is a reference to the now-demolished William C. Whitney Ballroom, designed by Stanford White, that once stood at...
View ArticleInterstices 19: Surface / Pattern a pursuit of material narratives
Surface and ornament are periodically reviewed, discarded and pursued. More recently, there has been an interest in the writing of Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Gottfried Semper, Adolf Loos, Hermann...
View ArticleBasel’s Beyeler Builds out for the Future
Last month, Peter Zumthor unveiled his winning scheme for the expansion of the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler museum in Riehen, near Basel.11. Source: Archinect
View ArticleThe inconceivable price of low-income housing
The Grenfell Tower blaze is more than a tragic fire. It hits at the very heart of the history of the British social system. The Grenfell Tower is a type of building known as "tower blocks," a type of...
View Article2017 TxA Emerging Design + Technology - Texas Architect Magazine
The TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference brings experimental research and exploration among academics and practitioners to a broad audience of designers, practicing architects, construction...
View ArticleThe wall as a visual panel in the Middle Ages (Madrid, 6 - 7 Nov 17)
The 11th Complutese Congress on Medieval Art (Madrid, Spain) aims to think about the visual function of medieval painted walls, taking into account that they were probably the best mass media in their...
View ArticleGovt reconstitutes conservation panel
MARGAO: The government has reconstituted the Conservation Committee under the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulation with TCP Minister Vijai Sardesai as the chairman and Chief...
View ArticleSingle edu agency for all disciplines on the cards
If central government’s plans of setting up a single higher education authority materialise, institutions of different discipline including engineering, architecture and others will be governed/guided...
View ArticleMumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace hotel acquires image trademark
"Now-a-days, most of the hotels are cookie-cutters. There are not many which are designed differently," said Misra, adding that it took the company seven months to get the structure registered. With...
View ArticlePMC raises Rs 200 cr from municipal bonds at 7.59 per cent
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) became the first municipal corporation in the country in recent years to raise funds through municipal bonds by raising Rs 200 crore at 7.59 per cent rate at the...
View ArticleFate of Jammu, Srinagar Smart City proposals to be decided on June 23
JAMMU, June 18: The fate of State Government’s proposals for converting Jammu and Srinagar into Smart Cities will be decided on June 23 when the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Development...
View ArticleHungarian Archaeologists Unearth Herod’s Fortress, Ritual Bath, East of...
A Hungarian archaeological mission digging in the ruins of Machaerus, a fortress built by King Herod on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, has discovered a large ritual bath which were likely...
View ArticleDigital Anthropologies: Shifting Mediums Shifting States (Adelaide, 11-15 Dec17)
AAS/ASA/ASAANZ 2017 Shifting StatesPanel Title: Digital Anthropologies: Shifting Mediums, Shifting StatesPanel Convenors: Dr Gretchen M Stolte, Dr Anna EdmundsonNew methodological developments in...
View ArticleArchitecture professor emeritus receives Japanese national medal of distinction
Clemson University Professor Emeritus Yuji Kishimoto has been awarded a national medal of distinction — the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays Medal — by the Emperor of Japan in a ceremony at the...
View ArticleArchitect David Kroyanker writes definitive guide to the living museum that...
Unlike those who dig for remnants of cultures past, architect David Kroyanker looks for signs of them on buildings in present-day Jerusalem. Over the past 45 years, he’s taken stock of virtually every...
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