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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 … More

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

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 … More

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

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 … More

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 … More

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

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 … More

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

Uzbek pavilion curators Christ & Gantenbein on Mahallas and the future of urban living

2021 marked the first time the Republic of Uzbekistan participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled Mahalla: Urban Rural Living, the … More

Architecture, Bas Princen, Biennale Archittetura, Carlos Casas, Central Asian Architecture, Christ Gantenbein, Courtyard Typologies, Mahalla, Tashkent, Urban Rural Living, Uzbekistan

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio applies an urban sensibility to projects from private homes to research centers

Architect Tatiana Bilbao grew up in the center of Mexico City, in the Colonia Cuauhtémoc, not far from her current office. The city’s vast … More

Architecture, Architecture from Outside In, Hunters Point, landscape, Lost Commons, Mexican architecture, SFMOMA, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Urbanism, Ways of Life

Four Standout National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale

For the 17th Venice Architecture Biennial, curator Hashim Sarkis posed the question “How will we live together?” During the year … More

Architecture as Measure, Bas Princen, Carlos Casas, Christ & Gantenbein, Co-ownership of Action, Finland, Japan, Juuso Westerlund, Kozo Kadowaki, Mahalla, NEMESTUDIO, Neyran Turan, Philip Tidwell, Puutalo Oy, Turkey, Uzbekistan

At Casa Gilardi, Robert Janitz’s Latest Exhibition

The buildings and gardens that the Mexican architect Luis Barragán realized in the second half of his career, from the … More

Abstract Art, Best of All Worlds, exhibition review, Gianni Jetzer, Luis Barragan, Mark Making, Mexican architecture, Robert Janitz

Beatrice Galilee’s Anthology of Radical Architecture

Curator and self-described “organizer of things” Beatrice Galilee’s new book Radical Architecture of the Future (Phaidon, 2021) is a condensed encyclopedia of Galilee’s … More

Beatrice Galilee, book review, Breakthroughs, Insiders, Masterminds, Radical Architecture, Radicals, Visionaries

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