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Towards Organic Modernism: 1950s American Interiors

How technical mastery and creative vision brought woodcraft to the fore of American postwar design. Whether for or against the…

American Interiors, American Modernism, Design, George Nakashima, House and Home, House Beautiful, Organic Modernism, Postwar Modernism, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Vladimir Kagan, Wood Furniture

Soft-Firm and the Art of Activist Space-Making

Soft-Firm is a self-described “interdisciplinary practice and flexible platform” that seeks understated design and architecture solutions through collective effort. There is…

Architecture, Brooklyn, Generation House, Generational Memory, Interior Design New York, Landscape design, Lexi Tsien, Soft-Firm, Stuyvesant Heights, Talitha Liu

Songs from the cellar: Ukrainian creators bare their hearts ahead of Triennale Milano

“Sorry, there are no designers here in Ukraine. There are soldiers/volunteers/civilians.” Approximately one week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv-based architect…

Kharkiv, Kyiv, Modernist architecture, PlanetaUkrain, Revolution of Dignity, Triennale Milano, Ukraïna, Ukraine, Ukrainian architecture, Ukrainian art, Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian music

In Cancún, Two Architects Are Using Rental Apartments to Try to Reinvigorate a Neighborhood

Donceles has languished in the shadow of exclusive beach resorts, and the designers think new residents could bring life back…

Architecture, Cancun, Donceles, Housing, Kiltro Polaris, Mexican architecture, Mexico, Redensification, Urban design, Vivienda Minima

The Art of Assembly

Interior, object, and clothing designer Faye Toogood has always blended her cross-categorical interests into different disciplines. Now, for the first…

assemblages, Ceramic, Design, Fashion Design, Faye Toogood, Friedman Benda, landscape, Materials, Sculpture, Unlearning, Wood

A Dark Serpentine Structure Works as a Surprisingly Airy Family Home

Though the building, located outside of Mexico City, might seem brutal at first, its emphasis on and integration with nature…

Black concrete, Brutalist architecture, Casa Pasiddhi, diseño mexicano, landscape, Landscape design, Luis Garvan, Mexican architecture, Mexico, Mutuo Studio, Rojkind Arquitectos

Meet Slava Balbek: defender, designer, optimist behind the RE:UKRAINE project

The 38-year-old Kyivan sheds these titles while fighting against demolition of historic buildings, preparing rescue kits and creating an emergency…

Balbek Bureau, Bucha, Displacement, Irpin, Kyiv Volunteer, Lviv, Modular housing, RE: Ukraine, Slava Balbek, Temporary shelter, Ukrainian architecture, Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian volunteers

Galerie Philia’s ‘Transatlántico’ exhibition bridges transatlantic creativity

Organised during Zona Maco Art Week in Mexico City, the exhibition is a temporary oasis taking place in an office building in Polanco.

Collectible Design, Galerie Philia, Latin American Design, MExico City, Peruvian art, Textile art, Transatlantico

Anicka Yi: Sculpting the Air

Prepare for an extrasensory glimpse into the world of soft robotics, atmospheric justice, and our potential openness towards olfaction. Ancika…

Anicka Yi, Artificial Intelligence, Bankside, Biologizing the Machine, Biotechnology, Hyundai Commission, In Love with the World, Mark Godfrey, Scent, Sitara systems, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall

Puutalo Oy and Finland’s Little Boxes

Born out of a necessity engendered by war in 1940, the Puutalo Oy Housing Consortium was established in Finland to…

Architecture, Biennale Architettura, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Finland Pavilion, Juuso Westerlund, New Standards, Philip Tidwell, Prefab, Puutalo houses, Puutalo Oy, wood architecture

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