Berlin Istanbul Lecture Series: Urban Space and Refugees
As a form of human mobility, migration can be within or across borders, regular or irregular, voluntary or forced, as well as temporary or permanent.
View ArticleReFocus: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932 -1986) is a renowned Russian filmmaker whose work, despite an output of only seven feature films in twenty years, has had a profound influence on international cinema.
View ArticleZài Xīng Tǔ Mù. Sixteen Chinese Museums, Fifteen Chinese Architects
An exhibition by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory in collaboration with Zumtobel
View ArticleLandscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities - Dumbarton Oaks Symposium
The use of the word “landscape” to describe the formation and infrastructure of cities—as reflected, for example, in current theories of landscape urbanism—largely seems to express contemporary...
View ArticleBad Bodies: Inscriptions of Fatigue, Instability, and Resistance
CFP for panel presentation: College Art Association Conference, New York, February 2017
View ArticleNarendra Modi to hold first-ever townhall meeting on Saturday
Narendra Modi is all set to reach out to citizens through his first-ever ‘townhall’ style event at Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex in New Delhi on
View ArticleErections: The i360, World’s Most ‘Slender’ Tower, Opens in England
LONDON — It has been billed as “the world’s tallest moving observation tower,” a futuristic 531-foot-high structure that will give visitors an experience that one of its creators likened to floating in...
View ArticleLoss and redemption on the Street of Eternal Happiness
....Later, when a historian showed me an old browned map of the neighborhood from the 1940s, I noticed a maze of alleyways snaking south from the Street of Eternal Happiness down through dense rows of...
View ArticleTwo Walls and a Dream
When MRP Associates from Mumbai approached architects Shilpa Gore-Shah and Pinkish Shah of S+PS Architects for a housing project, little did they know that it would win awards. The project has gone on...
View ArticleWhat problems are really being solved by today's tech innovations?
Every day, innovative companies promise to make the world a better place. Are they succeeding? ... Too many well-funded entrepreneurial efforts turn out to promise more than they can deliver (i.e.,...
View ArticleLBJ’s Last-Minute Demand for His Presidential Library
With construction already underway on the presidential library he was designing in Austin, the architect took a phone call from his workaholic client after dinner on October 10, 1968.
View ArticleJames Baldwin's Essays on Cities Are as Incisive as Ever - CityLab
James Baldwin has been seen as a prophet, as a suspect, as the greatest American essayist in history. He was also a sharp examiner of the urban environment.
View ArticleModernism in Monaco: Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray shine at Cap Moderne
Cap Martin is a rocky finger barely 2km long that pokes out into the Mediterranean at Roquebrune, just east of Monaco – but it’s one of the most important sites in the history of modern architecture,...
View ArticleArchitects Are Designing Buildings for the Age of Mass Shootings
Our culture of fear has changed the role of architecture in the United States. In just 2016 alone, the country has seen 221 mass shootings, and we struggle to keep up with the stream of international...
View ArticleJohn Shaw, former Cornell professor and member of the “Texas Rangers,” passes...
John Preston Shaw passed away on June 9, 2016 in Issaquah, Washington. Shaw had a long and prestigious career as an architectural educator and architect. He was born July 7, 1928 in Abilene, Texas, and...
View ArticleBook Review: Built in India
The book is evidence of Benninger’s enormous range as an architect and his exploration of a widening arc of Indian ideas: Gautam Bhatia
View ArticleScrap Housing Ministry
The truth is that what Nigerians demand from the government are no longer houses; many of us citizens have given up on the ability of the govt.
View ArticleWhat Anime Architecture Teaches Us About the Future of Cities
Curated by Stefan Riekeles and Nadejda Bartels, the exhibition features original drawings from a number of iconic Japanese animated films.Riekeles tells The Creators Project that Anime Architecture is...
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