Architecture
The relationship between art and its architectural space can be tenuous. Traditionally, galleries prefer the white cube, where flat blank walls serve as a compliant canvas for displaying artwork. Planning exhibitions in historic buildings such as the Upper...
On April 19, 1965, New York City mayor Robert Wagner enacted the city’s Landmarks Preservation Law, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was formed, tasked with safeguarding the city’s rich architectural history by identifying and...
Architecture and filmmaking are not the two most obvious artistic bedfellows. But for Lee Yong-joo, an architecture graduate from Yonsei University, the appeal of the latter tempted him away from his original path, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his first...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s 1958 Seagram Building is a landmark that hardly needs introduction. The handsome Manhattan office tower — famously set back from the street to form a dramatic Park Avenue piazza — has consistently garnered praise for its...
Although perhaps not universally known, the late Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi was a well-loved and influential force in tropical modernity and a champion of Brazilian artists. Arguably the best-loved of her works is the 1951 Casa de Vidro, or Glass House...
SINGAPORE — The humble ventilation block has been a long-standing feature of tropical architecture, a humble but effective tool to help beat the heat and the humidity. Stacked together, ventilation blocks create porous walls that allow air to move in and out...
On view now at the Museum of Modern Art, “Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light” charts the career of the celebrated 19th-century French architect behind Paris’s Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and Bibliothèque nationale, arguably two of the most...
BANGKOK — Leafing through “The Modern Thai House”, a new coffeetable book profiling some of the most “sophisticated and sensitively designed” houses in the country, you’d be forgiven for asking what exactly is Thai about them. The pointy roofs, flame-shaped...
TOKYO — One of Japan’s most prolific and innovative architects, Shigeru Ban is currently holding his largest ever retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito. Curated by Sayako Kadowaki, “Shigeru Ban — Architecture and...
SEOUL — The idea of your old teenage flame, who is now a successful architect, building you a house as promised 15 years ago completely captivated South Korean moviegoers last year, and “Architecture 101” became one of the highest grossing local melodramas of...
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